Re: video card

Sunshine wrote:

> I am removing ATI Rage 128 viideo card and installing G Force MX 4000
> 3D fusion. My question is the ATI card is in the AGP conn slot
> (brown) The retention mechanism is totally different than the G Force
> one.  Can you use an open PCI slot (white) for this?



AGP cards have to go into AGP slots and PCI cards have to go into PCI slots.

You can't plug your refrigerator into the telephone jack either.. ;-)

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