Can I Use The PCI-E And The AGP Slot Together On My Motherboard? Motherboard: asrock 4coredual-vsta DESCRIPTION: The PCI-E Has A nVidia GeForce 7900GTX And I Want To Add A XFX GeForce 6800XT Into The AGP Slot If Possible, The 7900GTX Has An Side SLI Connector AND The 6800XT Will Work SLI But Dont Have A SLI Side Connector (When You Start Windows XP It Says "SLI Multi-GPU Rendering Has Been Disabled Because One OF The Cards Have Been Removed" (I Haven't Had 2 Together Yet, Its The Basic nVidia Message) BUT WILL THEY WORK? TOGETHER IN SLI OR SEPRATE OR BOTH! HELP! I DONT WANT TO BLOW UP MY MOBO :(

The MSI K8N NEO 4 Platinum Edition mobo, has an AGP graphics expansion slot. (Accelerated Graphics Port)

It uses AGP graphics cards that are either 4X, or 8X. (Supports 1.5 Volt AGP graphics cards, hence 8X)

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/K8N-Neo-Platinum.html#/?div=Detail

Click on the Specification tab. Look under the bold - Slots - subheading.

(Overview, { Which is the tab it automatically opens to}, Specification, Download, Support, News and Awards, Where to Buy )

This is Evga's version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 550,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130625

Click on the Details tab. (Overview, Details, Feedback)

Under the bold - Interface - heading, and to the right of the subheading - Interface, we see the interface is - PCI-Express 2.0 x16.

Tells you a lot right off the bat, if you know what you are looking at.

1) The graphics expansion slot you need on your motherboard, is a PCI-Express x16 slot.

You have an AGP graphics expansion slot. (That uses either 4X, or 8X AGP graphics cards)

2) The PCI-Express technology used is PCI-Express 2.0

Therefore the answer is No, Stephen.

[ More info on AGP graphics technology, and PCI-Express technology,

1) AGP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGP

2) PCI-Express:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

Now if someone asks you, why the GeForce GTX 550 graphics card will not work on your motherboard, you can explain why in detail, instead of just saying some dude/dudette on FixYa, said it will not work.

Are you sure some 'Mom and Pop' computer store will not trade out, a decent AGP graphics card, for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 you have?
Always worth a shot. Just MHO.

Regards,
joecoolvette

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This motherboard has PCI expansion slot then any PCI video card will work with this motherboard. If it had an AGP expansion slot then you may be able to install a better video card.
This motherboard has a built-in Nvidia GeForce video card which most likely out performs any PCI video card.

Hi, you can download a manual here:
Your mainboard has AGP slot.

1 slot for AGP 8X/4X 1.5V

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7S41GX

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce2mx.html

The to first one is AGP.
The last one is PCI-E

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200

NVIDIA Model Number: 8859

Memory: 64MB

Outputs: DVI

Interface / Slot Type: AGP

• Installed Memory: 32
• Interface Type: Video - 15 pin High-Density D-shell (VGA)
• Video Chipset: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400
• Slot Type: AGP

GeForce MX4000 Bus Type PCI Slot Memory on Board 64 MB DDR RAMDAC Support 270 MHz Max. Resolution 2048x1536 8/16/32 bit colors with 60Hz (Analog) Memory Interface 64-bit Display Output Dual VGA
(1x On-Board VGA,
1x MD9-pin port supports 1 x VGA) Operating System Support Windows® XP/2K/98//Me/NT 4.0

G32 board has no agp slot ....
and the card you are using is AGP NVIDIA GE FORCE XFX 5500 ...
g31 has 16x pci slot so buy PCI card not AGP...

Because it has NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 405 Chipset.
any NVIDIA® GeForce card will be the best to get, but why do you wan't a new card when the on board one is a NVIDIA® GeForce6-class graphics DX9.0 VGA, Pixel Shader 3.0, Max. shared memory 256MB?
just get a VGA to DXI converter that's what i did there only a couple of pounds.
http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/VGA-DVI.html

Check the BIOS setting and make sure it is set to AGP and PCI. PCI will attempt to use the onboard graphics.

Specs say AGP 8x. You can still buy a decent AGP card from ATI. ATI based cards seem to have AGP version up to the Radeom X1900 card. If you have some spare cash it would be more feasible to upgrade to a new motherboard which would support the new PCI-e 2 format.Hope this helps & please take a moment to rate this solution fixya. Thanks.

Hi sandesh8, did you know you can increase the memory size of the onboard AGP card above the 64MB? Page 26 in you're manual. If you install another AGP card into the opened AGP slot, please go to this site & only use the recomended AGP cards in the Asrock list. Click on this link: http://www.asrock.com/mb/vga.asp?Model=P4i45GV%20R5.0&s=478&c=VGA
This is one of very few video cards found on the list with 256MB of video memory.
http://www.amazon.com/nVidia-GeForce-FX-5700-5187-6725/dp/B000RPKI28

Good Luck!
Mike

Dear hiran89

Please see the specification of your motherboard at the following link of Asrock. It supports only up to AGP 4x.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=M266A

The 8600GT GPU does not come in AGP setups only PCI-Express. In general even if you were to have this card then the rest of your system would bottleneck the capabilities of the card.

My advice is to buy something more suited to the system you own such as a RADEON RX2600PRO, GEFORCE 7600GT,..but still these may be still more than the system deserves right now.

Saying this the most powerfull graphics card now in AGP are the ones below

GEFORCE 7900GS, 512MB DDR3
ATI HD 3850, 512MB GDDR3

Regards
EngineerGR

is there any problems?? do u try any AGP card before or u wont the best card that match Asrock .... if that what u need u can use any nVIDIA cards ... avoid the DDR2 cards ....