What kind of PCI slot for video does this MB have? ×1,×4, ×16?

[drake717]

What kind of PCI slot for video does this MB have? ×1,×4, ×16?

And would a PCI-E ×16 video card work on it?
I ask because some told me it's PCI×16 some said it's AGP. I'm confused

ASRock > 4CoreDual-SATA2

 

[Sir George]

And would a PCI-E ×16 video card work on it?
I ask because some told me it's PCI×16 some said it's AGP. I'm confused

ASRock > 4CoreDual-SATA2

See if this helps you, copied from the motherborad specs;

1 x PCI Express Graphics slot (@ x4 mode)
1 x AGP 8X slot
(Motherboard image and specs)


(the image below shows 2 different types of video cards)

 

[drake717]

And would a PCI-E ×16 video card work on it?
I ask because some told me it's PCI×16 some said it's AGP. I'm confused

ASRock > 4CoreDual-SATA2

See if this helps you;

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Then why does it say PCI express (@4× mode)? What is that? Isn't that the speed?

 

[Sir George]

And would a PCI-E ×16 video card work on it?
I ask because some told me it's PCI×16 some said it's AGP. I'm confused

ASRock > 4CoreDual-SATA2

See if this helps you;

View attachment 240265

Then why does it say PCI express (@4× mode)? What is that? Isn't that the speed?

My first post was written while I was engaged with another activity, not as focused as I should have been. Anyway, the PCI-E slot on your board is a PCI-E X4, therefore it only uses 4 lanes and purchasing a borad with 8 or 16 lanes will work, which is what I intended to state in my first post, but will only use the 4 lanes available. My choice would be to use a PCI-E instead of an AGP card, as a final thought.

 

[smarteyeball]

Although considering the age of the machine, it's highly unlikely any gaming etc will be done, so he could get away with an AGP card.

Otherwise, PCI-E is the way to go.

 

[Pedroc1999]

Basicly PCIE x16(x4)is used for crossfireX and SLI, so the master card uses the PCIE X16(x16) and the slave card uses the PCIE X16(x4) because it doesnt need as much power, it is advised to if you only run 1 card to run it in the PCIE X16(x16) slot

 

[bobkn]

And would a PCI-E ×16 video card work on it?
I ask because some told me it's PCI×16 some said it's AGP. I'm confused

ASRock > 4CoreDual-SATA2

It's unusual.

It has both an AGP X8 slot, and a PCI-E X16 slot (which is limited to four PCI-E lanes, rather than 16). I'm not sure how much that would limit the performance of a high-end PCI-E X16 graphics card. That's irelevant; no one would plug a $500US 300W card into such a system.

PCI-E graphics cards are a lot easier (and cheaper) to come by than AGP, so if you want to buy a new card, go with that.

The chipset is Via. (That explains the weirdness.) I see that Asrock has Windows Vista drivers for it, so it's possible that Win7 would support it.