Think my card is dying and need a new one?

[HP]

Previously had a problem with the mysterious 'pink screen', which cleared up for about a week, then came back. Did the de-magnet thingy but no luck now. Had the speakers turned off the whole time.

Now I'm getting black-and-white blizzards at the sides of the screen which make me think it's my graphics card and not my monitor (which I've had replaced).

So - all I know about my current card is that it's a Radeon 9200 SE.

1-What's the difference between an AGP and a PCI?

2-What's the difference between G-force and Radeon?

3-What options do I have for a replacement (from Novatech product line) ? My uses are no gaming but I like my photography. Also something that is easy to replace for a novice with the insides?

Thanks

[Taxation]

1)pci is a port where most peripherals go, eg.sound, but you can put some lower end (very low end) graphics card
AGP is an accelerated graphics port, used just for graphic cards, it has a higher bandwidth than pci and is still used by graphic companies

2)G-force is Nvidia
Radeon is ATI
2 different companies, Nvidia dont really do many AGP cards anymore
ATI supports AGP a little more, with its X1950pro AGP card

3)no gaming, anything will do ,to be honest
either the ATI 9250
or the nvidia fx5200, i had AGP version, and it lasted me until BF2 came out
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... l?XFX-FX52 (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?XFX-FX52)

[HP]

Thanks - another educational day ! :D

So what type of connection do the pro's use then? Your wording suggested that PCI was poor quality and AGP was not very well used now or did I misunderstand?
Are there more than two types?

[Taxation]

the x1900pro is on AGP and pci-express
there are 3 types of slots,pci,pci-e,agp
AGP is better than pci because it has a higher bandwidth, plus AGP was made with gfx cards in mind.
But pci-expresss is the best,i might do a little write up 2moro when i can be bothered :roll:

[HP]

Oh, and there was me thinking PCI and PCI-e were the same.

Thanks for this, I feel a little more educated now!

[teknokid]

and pci-e is twice the speed of agp!

[Taxation]

no
it just has a higher bandwidth

[teknokid]

oh. well the number is twice as big.

[Nox]

oh. well the number is twice as big.

And when you're talking about latency, that makes things half the speed. Is why you still see some stuff coming out on PCI, particulalry when it doesn't xfer a lot of data but when it does, it needs to be afas as possible.

Nox