Need video card recommendation

I just purchased a LaCie 321 monitor. It's connected to a VGA port on an
older Matrox Millennium card. The MB is an Asus P3V4X withan AGP/4x
slot. It's probably AGP 1 because it doesn't say otherwise in the
manual, nor does it give voltages. The new monitor can take both VGA and
DVI-I input.

I'm looking for a replacement video card with a DVI-I port (plus a
second port, VGA or DVI) which will work on my MB. All cards I've seen
to date seem to require at least AGP 2.

TIA
Steve

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I believe that you must have an AGP 2 slot, if the board supports AGP 4X (as
claimed in your manual; I checked it my downloading the manual from
support.asus.com).

To verify, see:

http://www.directron.com/15agpguide.html

If your AGP slot has the keys for both the 3.3V and 1.5V cards, you should
be able to use most AGP 3 cards (4X/8X), which will make your choice a lot
easier.

I admit to some curiosity as to why you're attaching an expensive monitor to
such an ancient PIII/Slot 1 PC, but that'd your choice.


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"Steve" wrote in message
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I just purchased a LaCie 321 monitor. It's connected to a VGA port on an
older Matrox Millennium card. The MB is an Asus P3V4X withan AGP/4x slot.
It's probably AGP 1 because it doesn't say otherwise in the manual, nor
does it give voltages. The new monitor can take both VGA and DVI-I input.

I'm looking for a replacement video card with a DVI-I port (plus a second
port, VGA or DVI) which will work on my MB. All cards I've seen to date
seem to require at least AGP 2.

TIA
Steve

Please reply to

I just installed a nvidia 5200 into one of those boards if this helps.

"Steve" wrote in message
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I just purchased a LaCie 321 monitor. It's connected to a VGA port on an
older Matrox Millennium card. The MB is an Asus P3V4X withan AGP/4x slot.
It's probably AGP 1 because it doesn't say otherwise in the manual, nor
does it give voltages. The new monitor can take both VGA and DVI-I input.

I'm looking for a replacement video card with a DVI-I port (plus a second
port, VGA or DVI) which will work on my MB. All cards I've seen to date
seem to require at least AGP 2.

TIA
Steve

Please reply to

Bob Knowlden wrote:
I believe that you must have an AGP 2 slot, if the board supports AGP 4X (as
claimed in your manual; I checked it my downloading the manual from
support.asus.com).

To verify, see:

http://www.directron.com/15agpguide.html

If your AGP slot has the keys for both the 3.3V and 1.5V cards, you should
be able to use most AGP 3 cards (4X/8X), which will make your choice a lot
easier.

I admit to some curiosity as to why you're attaching an expensive monitor to
such an ancient PIII/Slot 1 PC, but that'd your choice.


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"Steve" wrote in message
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I just purchased a LaCie 321 monitor. It's connected to a VGA port on an
older Matrox Millennium card. The MB is an Asus P3V4X withan AGP/4x slot.
It's probably AGP 1 because it doesn't say otherwise in the manual, nor
does it give voltages. The new monitor can take both VGA and DVI-I input.

I'm looking for a replacement video card with a DVI-I port (plus a second
port, VGA or DVI) which will work on my MB. All cards I've seen to date
seem to require at least AGP 2.

TIA
Steve

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Thanks for your very helpful reply. I think I'm on my way.

BTW, why put LaCie 321 on old MB? - I do no gaming, do a lot of
Photoshop. Speed is less important than monitor quality and my
Mitsubishi Diamond Pro was four years old and I could no longer get
reliable monitor profiles with my Color Vision spyder.

BigJim wrote:

I just installed a nvidia 5200 into one of those boards if this helps.

"Steve" wrote in message
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I just purchased a LaCie 321 monitor. It's connected to a VGA port on an
older Matrox Millennium card. The MB is an Asus P3V4X withan AGP/4x slot.
It's probably AGP 1 because it doesn't say otherwise in the manual, nor
does it give voltages. The new monitor can take both VGA and DVI-I input.

I'm looking for a replacement video card with a DVI-I port (plus a second
port, VGA or DVI) which will work on my MB. All cards I've seen to date
seem to require at least AGP 2.

TIA
Steve

Please reply to




Good to know. Thank you!