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ASUS 9600XT w/ A7V motherboard
It's time for me to let my old ASUS GeForce 2MX rest and put a new
video card into the box, but I cannot seem to decipher an answer from past posts here. Will it or won't it work? ASUS A7V 1.02 motherboard and the new ASUS 9600XT vidoe card. Thanks to all in advance. Sam. |
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(Sammy) wrote: It's time for me to let my old ASUS GeForce 2MX rest and put a new video card into the box, but I cannot seem to decipher an answer from past posts here. Will it or won't it work? ASUS A7V 1.02 motherboard and the new ASUS 9600XT vidoe card. Thanks to all in advance. Sam. I notice that ATI is no longer updating their "agpchart" page with info on the latest video cards. Their loss... First of all, the ATI page is here. Scroll down to the bottom, to see how the slots are cut in the video card, indicating the card can take 3.3V or 1.5/0.8V . http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html Then, go to Newegg and look at pictures of cards. Here is a 9600XT - it looks like a 1.5V only card: http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage....102-326-03.JPG Here is a 9700. According to the "agpchart", it supports 1.5 and 3.3V. This is the picture of part number N82E16814102246 at Newegg.com . http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage....102-246-05.JPG The Rage Fury is a 3.3V only card. http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...d-card-18.html So, it looks like the 9600XT is a 1.5V only card. Fortunately, the AGP slot shown in the picture in the A7V manual is universal and doesn't have any keys in it - that implies 1.5 and 3.3V support. The 9600XT should fit in the slot without bumping into any keys. The only other issue is AGP I/O power. Some older motherboards don't have enough I/O power, and the video card will give a black screen when you power up. I think that the A7V is modern enough that this won't happen. Do some Google searches to see if my hunch is correct. (I just checked Google and some people managed to get TNT2 cards running on an A7V. The 9600XT is worth a shot.) Here is a similar situation... http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...1d%404ax.co m HTH, Paul |
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(Sammy) wrote: Thanks Paul, That was a lot of good info, but am unsure of the keys on my AGP slot. I took my video card out and took a look just to make sure of what was there; At the front (the closest part to the external part of the case) is a spacer for AGP-Pro cards and there is a very shallow key there but maybe it is there just to hold the spacer? And then there is a key near the back of the AGP slot that seperated the pins of my curent video card (ASUS 7100) and the "L" shaped PCB bit like it shows on the ATI 9600 picture. The drawings of the various AGP key positions on the ATI site don't seem to be to scale and/or I'm having comprehension problems; so I'm still not sure if I order the card that it is OK in this motherboard. Thanks again, Sam. If keys are present, I think they would be in the central 2.8 inch long section. I did an image search on Altavista and got this: http://www.vr-zone.com/Home/news35/agppro.gif HTH, Paul (Paul) wrote in message ... In article , (Sammy) wrote: ... Will it or won't it work? ASUS A7V 1.02 motherboard and the new ASUS 9600XT vidoe card. Thanks to all in advance. Sam. I notice that ATI is no longer updating their "agpchart" page with info on the latest video cards. Their loss... First of all, the ATI page is here. Scroll down to the bottom, to see how the slots are cut in the video card, indicating the card can take 3.3V or 1.5/0.8V . http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html Then, go to Newegg and look at pictures of cards. Here is a 9600XT - it looks like a 1.5V only card: http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage....102-326-03.JPG Here is a 9700. According to the "agpchart", it supports 1.5 and 3.3V. This is the picture of part number N82E16814102246 at Newegg.com . http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage....102-246-05.JPG The Rage Fury is a 3.3V only card. http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...d-card-18.html So, it looks like the 9600XT is a 1.5V only card. Fortunately, the AGP slot shown in the picture in the A7V manual is universal and doesn't have any keys in it - that implies 1.5 and 3.3V support. The 9600XT should fit in the slot without bumping into any keys. The only other issue is AGP I/O power. Some older motherboards don't have enough I/O power, and the video card will give a black screen when you power up. I think that the A7V is modern enough that this won't happen. Do some Google searches to see if my hunch is correct. (I just checked Google and some people managed to get TNT2 cards running on an A7V. The 9600XT is worth a shot.) Here is a similar situation... http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...1d%404ax.co m HTH, Paul |
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