Name that slot...

[ffutures]

My brother-in-law gave me a copy of Doom 3 for Xmas, but it doesn't want to work, presumably because my PC uses the motherboard graphics which don't have hardware acceleration etc. I'd rather like to play it, but I'm not 100% sure what graphics cards will be suitable for this machine. It has two empty PCI slots, plus another (the brown one circled in this picture) which I think is AGP. Can anyone verify this, and make any suggestions as to a suitable (and preferably cheap) card?

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Later: Can't find the motherboard manual - is there any easy way to detect which specification it is?

Get the motherboard details ...

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

... usually written somewhere on the motherboard and ...

... JGI (just google it!) as there are numerous sites out there that will tell you what the motherboard has on it.

Re: Get the motherboard details ...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Okay, tried the wrong number a couple of times but eventually discovered it's an AM37, which apparently means x4 AGP.

Thanks, I now know what card to order.

Excellent!

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Sorry I couldn't tell you to run some free software to tell you that, but I'm glad you found the info you needed.

Have fun!