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Please help to figure out AGP
Hello!
I recently found out for myself an apparently old issue with different versions of AGP and everything around it. I read a warning that incompatable voltage could ruin the Mo-bo or video adapter card.So I kinda started to worry because I have an old AGP 1.0 x2 Mo-bo (VIA Apollo Pro 133) and a newer AGP 3.0 x8 nVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440 card. The card seems to be what's called a universal keyed one.It has 2 keys on it's bottom edge (for 3,3 and 1,5 V). Also the card has been working fine for the last couple of weeks,so I would assume I have nothing to worry about,except that I use AGP x8 card working at AGP x2 speed. So my general question is...If I have a 2 keyed card,then I can put it into ANY AGP slot without any problems? Same...if I have a Mo.bo with a universal AGP slot,then I can put into that slot any AGP card as well? 'cos in any other case the physical construction (design) of the above said equipment would PREVENT from using a mismatched voltaged equipment? I read about some rare exceptions...what are they? Also I read about AGP video cards with jumpers to switch voltage from 3,3 to 1,5....What's the point if the card WON'T fit into slot in a 1st place?Or they talk about universal card (like mine) that physically WOULD fit in any type of slot ,BUT UNLIKE mine won't automatically adjust itself to a work under new voltage? Out of curiosity...say,in my case...what actually happens-is the card works with 3,3 V and at x2 speed OR it using a built-in transformer converts the 3,3 into 0,8 V and work at x2 speed? Not like it really matters,but... From what I understood 0,8 V cards work fine with 1,5 V slots....(I would assume at a lower speed x4 instead of x8).Is that right? And the last thing...If I wanted to use my card at it's FULL speed (x8)...then the only solution is to find a AGP 3.0 chipseted Mo-bo with 0,8V? Alon |
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Please help to figure out AGP
If you are thinking about changing the motherboard, then I'd get one with
PCI-E (PCI Express) which is the way all future graphics cards are going. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/Windows "Alon Brodski" wrote in message ... Hello! I recently found out for myself an apparently old issue with different versions of AGP and everything around it. I read a warning that incompatable voltage could ruin the Mo-bo or video adapter card.So I kinda started to worry because I have an old AGP 1.0 x2 Mo-bo (VIA Apollo Pro 133) and a newer AGP 3.0 x8 nVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440 card. The card seems to be what's called a universal keyed one.It has 2 keys on it's bottom edge (for 3,3 and 1,5 V). Also the card has been working fine for the last couple of weeks,so I would assume I have nothing to worry about,except that I use AGP x8 card working at AGP x2 speed. So my general question is...If I have a 2 keyed card,then I can put it into ANY AGP slot without any problems? Same...if I have a Mo.bo with a universal AGP slot,then I can put into that slot any AGP card as well? 'cos in any other case the physical construction (design) of the above said equipment would PREVENT from using a mismatched voltaged equipment? I read about some rare exceptions...what are they? Also I read about AGP video cards with jumpers to switch voltage from 3,3 to 1,5....What's the point if the card WON'T fit into slot in a 1st place?Or they talk about universal card (like mine) that physically WOULD fit in any type of slot ,BUT UNLIKE mine won't automatically adjust itself to a work under new voltage? Out of curiosity...say,in my case...what actually happens-is the card works with 3,3 V and at x2 speed OR it using a built-in transformer converts the 3,3 into 0,8 V and work at x2 speed? Not like it really matters,but... From what I understood 0,8 V cards work fine with 1,5 V slots....(I would assume at a lower speed x4 instead of x8).Is that right? And the last thing...If I wanted to use my card at it's FULL speed (x8)...then the only solution is to find a AGP 3.0 chipseted Mo-bo with 0,8V? Alon |
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Please help to figure out AGP
Well,in the country where I plan to start a computer business PCI-e is
somewhat premature (price wise).Average salary is 210$ a mo. Al P.S.Plus in all honesty except for maybe DVD playing,heavy graphics and extream gaming who on Earth needs PCI-Express? DVD is better be played on a DVD set and a TV anyways... |
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Please help to figure out AGP
My desktop is still AGP and I just got the latest greatest card for it
without upgrading CPU and mobo... it's an x850 Pro ATI card with 256mb RAM. It's a huge step up from the older nVidia FX5700 which I was running. But if I had been prepared to upgrade to PCI-E, I'd have gone better than the x850 Pro. PCI-E cards are now cheaper than their equivalent AGP cards.... and it's always better to look ahead as much as possible in computer technology to avoid being left behind. The three other desktop PCs in the household all have PCI-E slots, although all use the integrated x200 graphics right now which suffices (just). None use heavy gaming, or even DVD playing, but all do video editing, encoding and re-encoding. I would not buy a motherboard with AGP if I were replacing any of them. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Alon Brodski" wrote in message ... Well,in the country where I plan to start a computer business PCI-e is somewhat premature (price wise).Average salary is 210$ a mo. Al P.S.Plus in all honesty except for maybe DVD playing,heavy graphics and extream gaming who on Earth needs PCI-Express? DVD is better be played on a DVD set and a TV anyways... |
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