Need VGA video card for T3104 eMachine
The onboard video in my eMachines T3104 is out. The MOBO has a free
PCI slot. I would like to try a VGA video card in it if I could find a cheap one. Anyone know what I need and where? Thanks JW |
Need VGA video card for T3104 eMachine
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The onboard video in my eMachines T3104 is out. The MOBO has a free PCI slot. I would like to try a VGA video card in it if I could find a cheap one. Anyone know what I need and where? Thanks JW VIA K8M800 Universal 1.5V AGP 3.0 Motherboard You can try searching for "FX5200 PCI", which is a good search term because they never made a PCI Express version of FX5200 and you should not get PCI Express cards in your search result. In this example, these are customer returns cards to the PNY warranty factory, which might not have been handled properly. https://www.amazon.com/PNY-VCGFX52PP.../dp/B000098PUF Your machine may or may not have an AGP slot. Or, it could have the copper pads for an AGP slot, but no AGP connector. You could also try for "FX5200 AGP", but only if there is an AGP slot available on your motherboard. Considering the state of supply of video cards, we're seeing the end of an era. A lack of PCI and AGP cards. No bridge chips to make new AGP cards. And the PCI Express cards have had the VGA connector removed. Now, you need a DisplayPort to VGA active adapter to make a VGA signal. You can take a look through Ebay and see what they've got. Paul |
Need VGA video card for T3104 eMachine
Wayne wrote:
The onboard video in my eMachines T3104 is out. The MOBO has a free PCI slot. I would like to try a VGA video card in it if I could find a cheap one. Anyone know what I need and where? What you need depends on what you intend to do with the computer. If you intend to play video games or do graphics/video editing, you'll need a better video card than what is needed for e-mail, word processing, web browsing, and other normal tasks. The onboard video isn't much to brag about, so it doesn't take much of a video card to surpass onboard video. The specs on that computer regarding graphics say: S3 Graphics Unichrome Pro 64MB DDR Shared memory That's very low end so just about any video card will do. You said "PCI" but that could mean "PCI (non-Express)" or "PCI Express". If all you have is just PCI, those are getting tougher to find. Found some at Newegg: http://tinyurl.com/y7ww92bm If there is an AGP card slot, use that instead of PCI. Newegg has a few AGP cards: http://tinyurl.com/ybtj36ye You never mention what connector is on the end of the monitor's video cable. You need to get a video card that matches the connector on the monitor, or use an adapter to convert. |
Need VGA video card for T3104 eMachine
VanguardLH wrote:
Wayne wrote: The onboard video in my eMachines T3104 is out. The MOBO has a free PCI slot. I would like to try a VGA video card in it if I could find a cheap one. Anyone know what I need and where? What you need depends on what you intend to do with the computer. If you intend to play video games or do graphics/video editing, you'll need a better video card than what is needed for e-mail, word processing, web browsing, and other normal tasks. The onboard video isn't much to brag about, so it doesn't take much of a video card to surpass onboard video. The specs on that computer regarding graphics say: S3 Graphics Unichrome Pro 64MB DDR Shared memory That's very low end so just about any video card will do. You said "PCI" but that could mean "PCI (non-Express)" or "PCI Express". If all you have is just PCI, those are getting tougher to find. Found some at Newegg: http://tinyurl.com/y7ww92bm If there is an AGP card slot, use that instead of PCI. Newegg has a few AGP cards: http://tinyurl.com/ybtj36ye You never mention what connector is on the end of the monitor's video cable. You need to get a video card that matches the connector on the monitor, or use an adapter to convert. The ATI 7000 on one of those pages, is ancient, and won't necessarily have drivers in all OSes. The 3450 is nice, and is actually a PCI Express with a PCI bridge fitted to it. Some of the movie processing features (3:2 pulldown) can be disabled when using a PCI bridge, because on a regular 33MHz 32 bit slot, there isn't a lot of bandwidth. The driver situation might be a bit better on the 3450, and it's possible the driver won't even know the path is PCI (except for discovering only an x1 lane is wired and working on the bridge). Back when they made PCIe x1 video cards (by not wiring the other 15 lanes), the driver could sense the wiring and deny a couple of movie features in the video decode block. For the price you might pay for a Visiontek, you could put the money towards a refurbished computer instead (at Staples or Walmart). I can also see several 6200 cards (which would be good too), but they have ripoff pricing. The OP was quite happy with integrated graphics up to now, and the only reason for this shopping trip, is because the chipset graphics seem to have failed. One thing to watch about such a situation, is some motherboards *require* you to change a graphics setting in the BIOS, to "turn on" a plug-in card. Otherwise, some of these older motherboards can continue to attempt to use their non-working integrated graphics block instead. Fully automated switching came later. I had one poster, who changed his CR2032 on a damaged system, the BIOS reset to integrated graphics, and because the integrated wasn't working, he couldn't see the BIOS screen to correct the graphics setting. That's the danger with some of this older stuff. If the user manual claims it automatically switches for you, then that's one less thing to worry about. Paul |
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