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New card for an AGP2 slot?
5 year old Dell computer, Nvidia GeForce 256 card is starting to fail (gray
streaks that go across entire screen in same horizontal plane as any black lines or text). Have swapped monitors, and the problem persists, so it's probably the card. My question is, can I buy a new graphics card with a higher AGP speed than the original AGP2? Are the new cards backwards compatible as far as the AGP speed goes? If so, any recommendations? |
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That would be 4x. Most of the newest cards will run AGP2.0. There isnt any
discernable difference between 4x and 8x, even in the benchmarks... You should be safe. NuTs "warp" wrote in message ... 5 year old Dell computer, Nvidia GeForce 256 card is starting to fail (gray streaks that go across entire screen in same horizontal plane as any black lines or text). Have swapped monitors, and the problem persists, so it's probably the card. My question is, can I buy a new graphics card with a higher AGP speed than the original AGP2? Are the new cards backwards compatible as far as the AGP speed goes? If so, any recommendations? |
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"warp" wrote in message
... 5 year old Dell computer, Nvidia GeForce 256 card is starting to fail (gray streaks that go across entire screen in same horizontal plane as any black lines or text). Have swapped monitors, and the problem persists, so it's probably the card. My question is, can I buy a new graphics card with a higher AGP speed than the original AGP2? Are the new cards backwards compatible as far as the AGP speed goes? If so, any recommendations? Take a look here... http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html Tom. |
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My question is, can I buy a new graphics card with a higher AGP speed
than the original AGP2? Are the new cards backwards compatible as far as the AGP speed goes? If so, any recommendations? You can use any card that is compatible with a 3.3V AGP slot. I'm not sure exactly what will happen if you try a card that only wants to be in a 1.5V or 0.8V slot, but my intuition tells me that it wouldn't work out all too well. |
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Nice link.
danka "Tom" wrote in message ... "warp" wrote in message ... 5 year old Dell computer, Nvidia GeForce 256 card is starting to fail (gray streaks that go across entire screen in same horizontal plane as any black lines or text). Have swapped monitors, and the problem persists, so it's probably the card. My question is, can I buy a new graphics card with a higher AGP speed than the original AGP2? Are the new cards backwards compatible as far as the AGP speed goes? If so, any recommendations? Take a look here... http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html Tom. |
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