Things to do before buying graphic card

As the technology is changing from day to day, buying PC accessories also need some input to make sure that you bought a correct product for your PC.

Let’s talk about buying graphic card, if you want to purchase a graphic card yourself, first thing you must do is Check whether slots are available for your new graphic card. This is common reaction that will do by every user.

Slot type will be another thing to make sure for adding a new graphic card. There are 3 types of computer expansion card interface format for graphic card.

1. Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
   PCI is now an old standard dating back to the early 90's and no longer fits our needs in terms of speed/performance.
2. Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
   AGP also is in a similar position as PCI now, base on the performance and reading rate provided, Manufacturer is decided to kill off the produce of the AGP standard’s graphic card.
3. PCI express (PCIe)
   PCI express is much faster than PCI and also AGP. Today, PCI-SIG is working on the PCI-Express 3.0. Almost all of the high end graphics cards being released today from ATI and NVIDIA use PCI Express. This is because of the high bandwidth data transfer of PCI Express.

Please refer to the article for further Information. And also refer to the layout of the interface.

Speed for graphic card and the purpose of buying this graphic need to be determined after understand the slot type. For gamer or graphic designer, they need a high end graphic card to produce results from their expertise.

Budget will be in the consideration as well to make sure you never over spend for your graphic card. And save some money for other accessories.