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Why in the crap do mobo manufactorers not include agp bus where agp bus can be placed why do they force u too find some pc guy and install it for u then pay for mostly the install(or i think..) when the manufactioner could just place the bus there for not too much more money
god i dont even know of a guy who can place an agp bus in my mobo(i got the little metal things just not the bus) within 70 ior 80 miles from where i live and im pretty sure its next to impossible for me to install it myself(but i wouldnt know where to buy one either

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Posted: 12th Jul 2005 06:27
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What are you talking about?

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They save a few pence by not including the connector. Just buy a new motherboard it will be cheaper than paying someone to fit a socket.

Next time research your purchase properly. If you want to upgrade later make sure the motherboard has the required slots.
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why the hell should we care???

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ionstream:
because you're a jerk, and you can go throw yourself in a lion pit or something... or just shutup

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*cuddles ion in a protective embrace*

You... you BACK OFF, Joelish fiend!


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cute

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Thats what I was thinking ... why buy a MB without agp then complain about it not having agp

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Posted: 12th Jul 2005 08:42
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well back then i didnt know what agp was u could have asked "so how much ram do you want" and i wouldve said "i dont know"

plus i got it for christmas

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I stand by my beligerant statement.

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Stop using such big words, especially without spelling them right (belligerent), us rednecks have to look them up to see what they mean.

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I can't even think of a motherboard today without AGP, unless its a pci-express. Where did you find such a crappy mobo? And how old is it?

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I got it when windows xp was still "new"(2001)

it has soem brown colored bus at the end of my mobo(right next to the bottom of the case) and but what is it, it looks a lot like an agp slot except it is positioned a lot closer to the out side of the case

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What manufacturer? what model?

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surely when you buy a motherboard you should research what you need. not knowing what an AGP slot isn't good enough, you should research and find out.

i dont see how anyone could cope in ordering pc parts when they see all the statistics for the piece of kit and not know what they mean... and then just buy any random one.

whoever got it you as an xmas present also should have done some research.
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post a photo of the board and then we can identify the slots on it.

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or, he could just type "motherboard slots" or something similar on google, and then read descriptions for what they do, and then look in images to see what they look like.
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i saw that once, a mobo with an agp slot but it wasnt positioned propery. The guy who had it soon threw himself in a lion pit.

sad.

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@cattlerustler

the one besides a pci is brown colored and looks like an agp slot from what ive images.google.comed but it isnt positioned right and there is another slot(or where a slot could be) that is marked agp

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give us the model of the board so that we can find it online.

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