Installing NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 2

[kikat]

My daughter's computer needed an upgrade in her video card to play the new online game Final Fantasy XI. I opened up the CPU and found the slots available were not compatible with the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 card purchased. The slots available (3) all had the same configuration and would not accept the pins on the new card.

Is there a way around this or does NVIDIA sell a GeForce FX card that will fit the slots I have available. I own a PCV-RS220 Sony VAIO. I have been unable to find the information on the Sony site.

Thank you for any insight into this dilemma. If not I will have to give her my computer! I configured this one myself and I don't want to give it up.

 

[SYAR2003]

Your computers motherboard does not have
AGP port/slot .

AGP " Accelerated Graphic Port "
Witch is the today standard of graphic cards
it gives a high bandwidth connection between the graphics device and the system memory. AGP provides a fast connection for 3-D graphics on computer systems.

AGP provides 1 GB/Sec (4X), 2 GB/Sec (8X) of bandwidth.

Instead you have PCI slots on the pci-bus.
Peripheral Component Interconnect. A circuit board bus connection to connect boards to memory and the CPU. PCI is a fast connection for boards such as NICs, internal modems, "and video cards".


Difference:AGP vs PCI
The maximum bandwidth of PCI is 133MBps. The maximum bandwidth of AGP 4x is 1GBps and AGP 8x is 2GBps. All of your devices (other than the AGP video card) share the bandwidth of the PCI bus. If you put a really fast video card on the PCI bus it will take bandwidth away from other devices such as your harddrives and/or network adapters.


So you have two choices really:
1) Update the machine , so it will be having a new motherboard with AGP port . Use the newly bought fx-5200.
2) Send the fx-5200 back , and get a PCI based graphic card.

SYAR

 

[dakota81]

Sounds like you are going to be stuck purchasing a PCI video card instead of an AGP video card. They're less performing but if that's the only slot you have, you don't really have a choice.

Some graphic card makers do make PCI GeForce FX5200 cards, I have seen them at a Best Buy once. Your other option is finding a video card online that uses an ATi Radeon chip, such as the 9000 or 9200. Of these choices, I would choose the FX5200.

The GeForce FX5200 isn't exactly a good gamers card, but on the other hand, the PCI bus is not fast enough to make use of anything better than the low-end cards, that's just the breaks. A quick search on pricewatch I came up with:

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=14-150-040&refer=pr1c3watch

There are plenty of other card models & retaillers out there, I just highlighted a popular one.

 

[TheGoatMan]

Your best bet is to keep the card and upgrade your board. What processor are you running and what type of ram are you running. You can find a board much better for around $50 depending on your processor.