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Originally Posted by Gee
I'll look into a setup like this. I guess one thing that comes to mind is with the new mother boards can older card pci cards like an additional video card still be used? The memory is probably different then what is used on this mb. I was a little confused with the different types of cards which I didn't really pay much attention to prior to this either. APG, PCI, PCI-E, etc. Does anyone have a link to a place that might help me understand the different ones or how to identify them? Is the PCI slot outdated and not used on the new mother boards anymore?
Under the system properties on my pc it has intel Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz 4.78GHz, 3.25 GB of RAM. Is that 2 cpus? One a 3.20Ghz and one a 4.78GHz. I would of thought they would be the same speed. Visually, there is one huge heatsink with the fan shroud over it. A smaller black heat sink seperate from that one. I will have to check out the ram. I know I have 4 - 1mb chips of RAM installed but it's only showing 3.25gb of ram. How does this system compare to what's available? Slightly better then the abacus? Decent but on the verge or fossil fuel. Upgradable to improve it maybe video card with more memory?
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PCI-E (AKA PCI-Express) is more common now for videocards. The older standard was AGP, but there aren't many AGP cards still around and even fewer mobos. a standard PCI is your usual slot for things such as RAID cards, wireless cards, etc.