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Asus P3V133 & Geforce2MX 200/64Mb
Hi,
I want to upgrade my P3V133 motherboard with the Geforce 2MX 200/64Mb graphics card. I haven't tried running the board yet as I am somewhat apprehensive about compatibility. My motherboard has an AGP slot with only 2 segments ie., the slot has only one partition ( incidentallty it's AGP X 2). The Geforce2MX 200 has 3 segments which suggests to me that the slot it should be using a multiple partitions slot. Is that so.? I'm not fussed running x4 in a x2 slot - its the voltage & power requirements I'm concerned about. The card fits without any problem in my Asus AGP slot (not game to power up yet!) but Im wondering if that is a sufficient criteria to safely run the board. Naturally I don't want to damage my motherboard.! My motherboard has an I/O Voltage setting jumper (VIO) but altering this to "test" affects the voltage supplied to the DRAM, chipset, AGP, and the CPU's I/O buffer. The manual indicates that setting to "test" may reduce system life and recommends leaving it on the normal setting. I am loathe to play around with it. My view is that either the graphics card is compatible or not and thats it.! My research on the net indicates that there are a number of different motherboard AGP slot configurations-some run at 1.5V others at 3.3V and the latest at 0.8V, with a variety of internal partitions and positions in the slots. The memory for my motherboard uses 3.3v and I presume this means the AGP also utilizes this value voltage signal although there seems to be a suggestion that this graphics card uses multiple voltages.? The main criteria for compatibility seems to be twofold viz., signaling voltages supplied/required power requirements of graphics card I might be worrying about nothing, nevertheless, I would greatly appreciate your views on whether this graphics card is compatible with the Asus P3V133 mobo in terms of signal voltages and power requirements given, of course, that appropriate 4 in 1 Nvidia drivers are used and the bios is set up for optimum performance. I would be grateful for any help to at least give me the confidence to power up my system with this graphics card in the knowledge that doing so will not have disatrous results. Thanks |
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:02:43 +1030, "Brenton Pettitt"
wrote: Hi, I want to upgrade my P3V133 motherboard with the Geforce 2MX 200/64Mb graphics card. snip Yes, it is backwards compatible, can use your 3.3V AGP1 slot albeit at the lower transfer rate as mentioned. Some older boards have trouble supplying enough power but an MX card is relatively low-powered, the board should be ok so long as your system power supply is adequate (again, an MX card isn't much of a power challenge but if it was barely making the grade already, "anything" might be one upgrade too many). In other words, odds are it'll be an easy drop-in replacement. |
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Hi,
But do we definitely know if this is a 1.5v or 3.3v card of if it uses a multiple power supply. This seems to be the crux of the isssue if I want to avoid frying something Backward compatibility is not in question. kony wrote in message ... On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:02:43 +1030, "Brenton Pettitt" wrote: Hi, I want to upgrade my P3V133 motherboard with the Geforce 2MX 200/64Mb graphics card. snip Yes, it is backwards compatible, can use your 3.3V AGP1 slot albeit at the lower transfer rate as mentioned. Some older boards have trouble supplying enough power but an MX card is relatively low-powered, the board should be ok so long as your system power supply is adequate (again, an MX card isn't much of a power challenge but if it was barely making the grade already, "anything" might be one upgrade too many). In other words, odds are it'll be an easy drop-in replacement. |
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:46:28 +1030, "Brenton Pettitt"
wrote: Hi, But do we definitely know if this is a 1.5v or 3.3v card of if it uses a multiple power supply. This seems to be the crux of the isssue if I want to avoid frying something Backward compatibility is not in question. What exactly do you think backwards compatibility means then? It will work if the other issues i mentioned, aren't a problem. The issues you mention, are non-issues. |
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"Brenton Pettitt" wrote in message ...
Hi, I want to upgrade my P3V133 motherboard with the Geforce 2MX 200/64Mb graphics card. I haven't tried running the board yet as I am somewhat apprehensive about compatibility. My motherboard has an AGP slot with only 2 segments ie., the slot has only one partition ( incidentallty it's AGP X 2). The Geforce2MX 200 has 3 segments which suggests to me that the slot it should be using a multiple partitions slot. Is that so.? I'm not fussed running x4 in a x2 slot - its the voltage & power requirements I'm concerned about. The card fits without any problem in my Asus AGP slot (not game to power up yet!) but Im wondering if that is a sufficient criteria to safely run the board. Naturally I don't want to damage my motherboard.! My motherboard has an I/O Voltage setting jumper (VIO) but altering this to "test" affects the voltage supplied to the DRAM, chipset, AGP, and the CPU's I/O buffer. The manual indicates that setting to "test" may reduce system life and recommends leaving it on the normal setting. I am loathe to play around with it. My view is that either the graphics card is compatible or not and thats it.! My research on the net indicates that there are a number of different motherboard AGP slot configurations-some run at 1.5V others at 3.3V and the latest at 0.8V, with a variety of internal partitions and positions in the slots. The memory for my motherboard uses 3.3v and I presume this means the AGP also utilizes this value voltage signal although there seems to be a suggestion that this graphics card uses multiple voltages.? The main criteria for compatibility seems to be twofold viz., signaling voltages supplied/required power requirements of graphics card I might be worrying about nothing, nevertheless, I would greatly appreciate your views on whether this graphics card is compatible with the Asus P3V133 mobo in terms of signal voltages and power requirements given, of course, that appropriate 4 in 1 Nvidia drivers are used and the bios is set up for optimum performance. I would be grateful for any help to at least give me the confidence to power up my system with this graphics card in the knowledge that doing so will not have disatrous results. Thanks I think this web site will answer all your questions http://www.ertyu.org/~steven_nikkel/...atibility.html |
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