Asus P4PE Mobo and new or prelove AGP cards

Hi there.

My old video card died last nite and as PCI or AGP cards are hard to
come by these days and I see that in the P4Pe handbook it specifies a
1.5 volt AGP card what choices are out there??

I have bought a cheap Matrox G200 pre loved but some told me that
they are 3.3volt and will not allow the PC to boot.

Thanx in advance..

Maybe it's time to upgrade this box..

Mutlley wrote:
Hi there.

My old video card died last nite and as PCI or AGP cards are hard to
come by these days and I see that in the P4Pe handbook it specifies a
1.5 volt AGP card what choices are out there??

I have bought a cheap Matrox G200 pre loved but some told me that
they are 3.3volt and will not allow the PC to boot.

Thanx in advance..

Maybe it's time to upgrade this box..

P4PE has a 845PE Northbridge, a 1.5V only device with respect to AGP.

G200 is listed here as "AGP 3.3V Card", so, yeah, that would be a
bad thing. It shouldn't even fit in the slot, if the keying is
working properly. The AGP slot has plastic keys, to prevent
illegal combinations.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html

In theory, you should be able to stick a wide range of modern
cards in there. Just go a bit more modern than G200 :-)

In terms of a "universal donor" type AGP card, if you're
not interested in gaming, the FX5200 works in everything.
I have a couple, and have used them on my 440BX motherboard
(AGP 3.3V only) and on my AGP 8X motherboards. But there
will be other cards that also fit the requirements.

Paul

If you want cheap, try www.geeks.com for old AGP vid cards, good
company in my experience.

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Best regards,
Kyle
"Mutlley" wrote in message
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| Hi there.
|
| My old video card died last nite and as PCI or AGP cards are hard to
| come by these days and I see that in the P4Pe handbook it specifies
a
| 1.5 volt AGP card what choices are out there??
|
| I have bought a cheap Matrox G200 pre loved but some told me that
| they are 3.3volt and will not allow the PC to boot.
|
| Thanx in advance..
|
| Maybe it's time to upgrade this box..

"Paul" wrote in message ...
Mutlley wrote:
Hi there.

My old video card died last nite and as PCI or AGP cards are hard to
come by these days and I see that in the P4Pe handbook it specifies a
1.5 volt AGP card what choices are out there??

I have bought a cheap Matrox G200 pre loved but some told me that
they are 3.3volt and will not allow the PC to boot.

Thanx in advance..

Maybe it's time to upgrade this box..

P4PE has a 845PE Northbridge, a 1.5V only device with respect to AGP.

G200 is listed here as "AGP 3.3V Card", so, yeah, that would be a
bad thing. It shouldn't even fit in the slot, if the keying is
working properly. The AGP slot has plastic keys, to prevent
illegal combinations.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html

In theory, you should be able to stick a wide range of modern
cards in there. Just go a bit more modern than G200 :-)

In terms of a "universal donor" type AGP card, if you're
not interested in gaming, the FX5200 works in everything.
I have a couple, and have used them on my 440BX motherboard
(AGP 3.3V only) and on my AGP 8X motherboards. But there
will be other cards that also fit the requirements.

Paul

My older system has a P4PE with an ATI 9600XT 128MB for
the video. They're well matched, except that the 9600XT is
AGP 8X capable and the P4PE only does 4X.

ID

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Hi there.

My old video card died last nite and as PCI or AGP cards are hard to
come by these days and I see that in the P4Pe handbook it specifies a
1.5 volt AGP card what choices are out there??

I have bought a cheap Matrox G200 pre loved but some told me that
they are 3.3volt and will not allow the PC to boot.

Thanx in advance..

Maybe it's time to upgrade this box..


You should find something in here that works:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...?Submit=ENE&N=
2010380048%201069609639&bop=And&Order=PRICE

http://tinyurl.com/2y24hs

Bill

I have a Nvidia 7600GS AGP in my P4PE. Fast as ****

Runs Half-Life 2 at 1280x1024 full everything with
the tweaks at http://osterud.name/games.html
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Lars-Erik - http://www.osterud.name - ICQ 7297605
WinXP, Asus P4PE, 2.53GHz, 1GB, MSI 7600GS, SB-Live

Lars-Erik Østerud .@. wrote:

I have a Nvidia 7600GS AGP in my P4PE. Fast as ****

Runs Half-Life 2 at 1280x1024 full everything with
the tweaks at http://osterud.name/games.html

Thanx every one for your replies. Food for thought and not doubt a
solution to the problem..