How to distinguish the slot VGA AGP and PCI express

• Outer side of VGA are different, in terms of quality and physically they are different.
• AGP has three different types of AGP 4x and 8x, last version of AGP is AGP 3.0 which is usually known as AGP 8x which was released in November 2000. This specification defines the speed of up to 533 MHz allowing the theoretical throughput of up to 2133 Megabytes / second times higher than that of AGP 4x).  Nevertheless, the fact that the performance demonstrated by the AGP 8x is not actually twice as high compared to AGP 4x, while the PCI Express also has two types of PCIex PCIex 1.0 and 2.0. 
  * But now the presence of AGP VGA already rare because production has been discontinued,
• The capabilities of PCI Express is a two-fold from the ability of AGP 8x, then 16x Called PCIex - or PCIex 16x 1.0 - 2.0. 
• Lots of stores that sell more expensive than PCIex AGP. Everytime you need to buy a VGA for the purposes you ought to need to know the difference physically. If not then you'll probably go wrong in choosing the type of VGA, in the event you gunakanVGA AGP or PCI Express (PCIex). You need to buy a suit with the support of your motherboard, in the event you have a book you ought to read the motherboard manual and see if your motherboard supports VGA Slot

AGP or PCI Express or PCIex.

In the event you do not must directly unload your PC and see slotnya.Usually also written on the board what type of motherboard used:

The Characteristics owned by VGA AGP slot is:

• The shape is wide and short,
• Boundary at the middle
• The color of the slot depends on the brand can motherboar brown, red or other.
• While the characteristics of PCI Express VGA (PCIex), namely:
• The shape is more a length of about 8-10cm
• Dividing only 1-2cm from the left.
• The color is also relative.