AGP 2X/4X/8X

Hay guyz.

I guess I didn't realize something when buying a video card for me earlier today. I got myself a pretty standard GeForce FX5200 (128M VRAM) since I'm on a tight budget, but anything's better than my current GeForce2 MX200 (32M). Well, my old card was using a PCI slot, and the new card I bought should use an AGP one. Fine, what kind of decript motherboard wouldn't have an AGP slot? Problem is, I didn't realize the new card requires an 4X/8X AGP slot, while I never realized that my AGP slot was only 2X capable (whatever these #X mean). Result: the card didn't work.

Since the card is already bought and there's no refund for it, will I have to buy a new motherboard with a decent AGP slot or is there a way to circumvent the problem with my current hardware?

Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

The card should work (albeit bad) in a 2X slot unless the card doesn't fit. I do think my 1998 motherboard supports 2X/4X though, or was it 1X/2X?

Still, AGP is soo outdated, use PCI-Express or whatever it is called lol. You also need the newest of the new... DOUBLE PROCESSORS omg future technology we have never had more than one processor in one computer before!!

AGP is not outdated. It's just starting to be phased out.

Does your mainboard support 1.5v agp? As #2 said, if it fits it should work somehow.

Hmm... the card fits fine, physically speaking. I can insert it all the way down with no trouble. The only thing is that, in the card connectors, there's like a couple of spaces between chunks of the "pins". In the slot I don't see anything that suggests that such spaces would be needed.

Another thing, I already told the BIOS to read the AGP slot as my primary one, as apposed to the PCI. I can't possibly see what's wrong. Is there something else in the BIOS I should do? Even though I don't really see any other option related to it.

Thanks, guys.

>>I do think my 1998 motherboard supports 2X/4X though, or was it 1X/2X?

Oh, and that's exactly what my card seems to support: 1X/2X. Doesn't it really make a difference?