I have a Dell Dimension 4500 with an AGP slot and 4 PCI slots. I just bought a Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS video card at Best Buy today for around 80 bucks. But I really don't know if this card is compatible. Apparently it has a separate fan, which may cause me problems?
Anyone have any clue whether or not these two are compatible?
(All this trouble just to play The Sims 3...lol.)|||Two things..
The 8400GS comes in two different versions: PCIExpress and PCI. The PCIExpress version will NOT work in your system. PCIExpress and PCI are completely different things and utterly incompatible with each other, despite the similarity in name.
If you bought the PCI 8400GS, you just bought a piece of garbage. PCI graphics cards all suck because they are bottlenecked by the PCI bus's 33mHz data transfer speed. It will be SLOWER than your Dimension's onboard graphics.
You should have gone for a high-end AGP card like an ATI HD3850 AGP.|||They should be compatible as long as you got the AGP version and not the PCI Express version. PCI and PCI Express are not the same thing and are not interchangable.
There are also different versions of AGP. If the card doesn't fit easily into the slot, it may not be compatible with the AGP slot on your computer's motherboard.|||$80 r u kidding me?
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