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Via Deltachrome9 IGP Question
Can anyone tell me if the integrated video, Via DeltaChrome9 IGP, on
the Asus A8V-VM motherboard, is an AGP type? What Nvidia video card is equivalent to the DeltaChrome9 IGP display on this motherboard. I'm new to integrated video on a MB, and am trying to determine if a lower priced PCI Express card would improve the graphics on my PC. If a noticeable improvement could be realized, please suggest an nvidia card to upgrade the display. I play very few games so don't need an expensive upgrade. Thanks for suggestions. |
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:01:49 -0500, Paul wrote:
The board appears to be PCI Express based, with an x16 slot intended for video. Virtually any PCI Express video card you buy, will perform faster than the VIA chipset graphics. But faster in the 3D end of things, as with 2D, there shouldn't be much of a difference. Review sites have stopped testing 2D performance, and nobody does "scroll tests" any more, to differentiate 2D performance. So even a $50 card will improve performance, or give you more advanced hardware support (DirectX9 features for gaming etc). Maybe the first question we should be asking, is how are the graphics deficient in your eyes ? What problems are you running into ? The built-in graphics do use system memory, which is bad if you don't have a lot of system memory to begin with. Paul Thanks for your response. My main concern is, when I visit a web page with graphics, it's a little slow showing the entire picture. Kind of starts at the top and scrolls to the bottom. The only video cards I have, to compare it to, are GeForce 2, MX200 and FX-5200. Both of these seem a lot faster than the onboard video. Since I'm not a gamer, I haven't played any, yet. I've never used a PSI-e video card and didn't know if a lower priced card, $40 - $50, would be an improve. Any suggestion is appreciated. |
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Via Deltachrome9 IGP Question
On-board video chips are soldered on the motherboard. They are NOT AGP or
PCI types. You will have to open the computer to see if you have an AGP slot included on that motherboard. -- DaveW ---------------- wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me if the integrated video, Via DeltaChrome9 IGP, on the Asus A8V-VM motherboard, is an AGP type? What Nvidia video card is equivalent to the DeltaChrome9 IGP display on this motherboard. I'm new to integrated video on a MB, and am trying to determine if a lower priced PCI Express card would improve the graphics on my PC. If a noticeable improvement could be realized, please suggest an nvidia card to upgrade the display. I play very few games so don't need an expensive upgrade. Thanks for suggestions. |
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Via Deltachrome9 IGP Question
But they do use either an AGP or PCIe bus, even though they are not in a
"slot". Dan DaveW wrote: On-board video chips are soldered on the motherboard. They are NOT AGP or PCI types. You will have to open the computer to see if you have an AGP slot included on that motherboard. ---------------- wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me if the integrated video, Via DeltaChrome9 IGP, on the Asus A8V-VM motherboard, is an AGP type? What Nvidia video card is equivalent to the DeltaChrome9 IGP display on this motherboard. I'm new to integrated video on a MB, and am trying to determine if a lower priced PCI Express card would improve the graphics on my PC. If a noticeable improvement could be realized, please suggest an nvidia card to upgrade the display. I play very few games so don't need an expensive upgrade. Thanks for suggestions. |
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:16:42 -0500, Paul wrote:
I guess my immediate reaction is "that isn't normal". And it might not be a video problem, but something else. The question is, will randomly replacing the video, fix it ? There are some benchmarks you could run, but the problem is, finding someone with an identical system, to compare them to. So I don't really know where to start. There aren't a lot of posts on the Asus hosted forum for your board. http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us If you want a video card, this one has a full set of connectors, and is $69 (7300GT). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130052 I'll check that out. How much memory is in this system and how many sticks/size each ? Two 128 MB sticks. Actually, I think I've found the problem. I had allocated only 64 MB to the video. When I increased the size to 128 MB, the video is loading like it should. I also have purchased more memory, which should improve overall performance. What does CPUZ report ? Do all the numbers look normal for clocks and the like ? http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php And did you actually install a video driver for the built-in video ? Yes. I installed the driver provided on the MB installation CD. I see a couple on the support.asus.com download page, and the first one is a very recent release. Your motherboard CD should have had an option to install a video driver as well, if you don't want to download one of these. Beta Version 6.14.10.0071 2007/01/11 update OS Win2K / WinXP Description VIA S3G Display Driver V6.14.10.0075 for Windows 2000/XP. File Size 8.8 (MBytes) Version 10.50.0.125 2006/01/09 update OS Win2K / WinXP / Win2003 Description VIA Onboard VGA Driver for Windows 2000/XP/XP MCE/2003 File Size 10.92 (MBytes) Paul The onboard video does provide ActiveX 9.0 support, so I think it will be fine, when I add more memory. Thanks, so very much, for your help. |
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