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?

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
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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?

"warp" wrote in message
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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.

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.

Nice link.
danka

"Tom" wrote in message
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"warp" wrote in message
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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.