First of all I have to say that I have enough technical knowledge to be dangerous, so please dumb down your answers a bit.
I have a home built system put together about 3 years ago (Still amazed that somehow I did it )
MOBO: Asus P5B-E Plus (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5BPlus/ )
I want to upgrade the video card a bit ( It now has a Radeon x1650 512 meg ) in it, but the listed MOBO interfaces, what cards are wanting today, and looking at the physical interfaces has me all confused.
The MOBO says that it has:
1x PCI-E x16
3 x PCI-X x1
3 X PCI 2.2
Can Video Cards that want 2.0 or 2.1 ( Which seem to be the majority of the cards out there ) work in a PCI 2.2 interface?
Would a GIGABYTE GV-N440D3-1GI GeForce GT 440 (Fermi) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125366 ) work with my MOBO, i
If not why not.
I am looking for a card <$100 that allows me 2 monitors ( for software development 1 for code 1 for other. ) Very light gaming needs, think games 3+ years old, but then again if it can run modern games so much the better.
Any suggestions, comments etc very much appreciated.
I have a home built system put together about 3 years ago (Still amazed that somehow I did it )
MOBO: Asus P5B-E Plus (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5BPlus/ )
I want to upgrade the video card a bit ( It now has a Radeon x1650 512 meg ) in it, but the listed MOBO interfaces, what cards are wanting today, and looking at the physical interfaces has me all confused.
The MOBO says that it has:
1x PCI-E x16
3 x PCI-X x1
3 X PCI 2.2
Can Video Cards that want 2.0 or 2.1 ( Which seem to be the majority of the cards out there ) work in a PCI 2.2 interface?
Would a GIGABYTE GV-N440D3-1GI GeForce GT 440 (Fermi) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125366 ) work with my MOBO, i
If not why not.
I am looking for a card <$100 that allows me 2 monitors ( for software development 1 for code 1 for other. ) Very light gaming needs, think games 3+ years old, but then again if it can run modern games so much the better.
Any suggestions, comments etc very much appreciated.