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View Poll Results: Which video card are you currently running??
X1950 Series 10 26.32%
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Old 10-01-2007, 03:37 PM   #101 (permalink)
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do u have an AGP Slot Video Card or PCI-e??
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PCI Express, im thinking about removing my TV capture card, its Fing usless. this gateway has 2 pci slots and 1 pci-express slot and 1 audio card slot its pretty dumb but the Pentium D and gig or ram moves things along swiftly. i have 2 twenty inch monitors. here >

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if you have a PCI-e then you can't use that AGP card... you can get that card for 140$ -ish in PCI-e
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so i cant just pull out my vido capture card thats currently in a pci slot and swap it out for the X1950?
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no x1950 is a pci-e card, or AGP...depends.
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hrmm.. i think i may buy an ati card when i have a 2nd rig just to help out w/ the folding.. x1950xtx here i come again!
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why not an x1950xt?
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because i like having hugemungous graphics cards, that consume alot of power.. haha
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