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Doest fit on Asus EN6600 TD fits on an ASUS PGD2 Deluxe mobo??
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Does the graphic card Asus EN6600 TD GeForce fit on mobo Asus PGD2 Deluxe (Intel socket 775) mobo: http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=...luxe&langs=09# Graphic card: http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=...eries&langs=01 Somebody advised me not to us an asus graphic card on an asus motherbord but he didn't give a reason. Can you guys advise me on this? Thx!!!! Chiwa |
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These should be perfectly compatible. P5GD2 Deluxe (I guess this is the one
you mean, as I do not know about any PGD2) has a PCIExpress slot and the card is a PCIe one. I have made the same combination (ASUS Graphic card and mobo) and I have not seen any problems so far. It would be interesting if anyone around could comment on this. "chiwa" wrote in message ... Hey, Does the graphic card Asus EN6600 TD GeForce fit on mobo Asus PGD2 Deluxe (Intel socket 775) mobo: http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=...luxe&langs=09# Graphic card: http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=...eries&langs=01 Somebody advised me not to us an asus graphic card on an asus motherbord but he didn't give a reason. Can you guys advise me on this? Thx!!!! Chiwa |
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In article , "chiwa"
wrote: Hey, Does the graphic card Asus EN6600 TD GeForce fit on mobo Asus PGD2 Deluxe (Intel socket 775) mobo: http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=...luxe&langs=09# Graphic card: http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=...eries&langs=01 Somebody advised me not to us an asus graphic card on an asus motherbord but he didn't give a reason. Can you guys advise me on this? Thx!!!! Chiwa Making graphics cards is not hard for the manufacturer. Nvidia or ATI provide a "reference design" to Asus or other video card manufacturer, and if the manufacturer sticks with the reference design, then all the cards work the same. There is little to distinguish video cards from one another. Looking at the ugly heatsink fan assemblies should tell you that the makers struggle to make them look different. Manufacturers compete on price, and in order to do that, some of them may attempt to use slower RAM or cut corners in other ways (like using a slower GPU and overclocking it). For example, if you shop on the Newegg site, the video cards have core clock and memory clock ratings, and sometimes you can see differences between cards that are supposed to be the same type. Before you buy a particular manufacturer's card - like Sapphire, MSI, Asus, Connect3D - search Google using the cards model number. Include the word "problem" in the search, and see what kind of trouble users are having. Newegg has reviews posted by customers, and in the past, there have been video cards where the users found them to fail after about three weeks of use. Those are the brands to avoid (and Newegg stopped carrying those models, so they could get rid of the negative reviews on their web site). Motherboard design is a bit different, in that "reference designs" are provided by the chipset makers like Intel, Via, SIS, Ali, ATI Nvidia, but there are more changes made to the design by the individual motherboard makers. The quality of the BIOS design and the quality of the documentation makes a difference. As do the included accessories in the box, or the peripherals included on the motherboard (RAID controllers, Firewire, etc). There are also subtle changes to board layout, power conversion design and the like, that can make the difference between broad stability and compatibility, and crash city. As a result, there are more significant product differences between motherboard makers, than there are differences between video card makers. In buying a video card, I would place more emphasis on reports of failures or under-rated RAM on certain cards, than the name of the company making them. As for the interface on the video card, whether it is AGP or PCI Express - in years past, the Northbridge on certain chipsets was notoriously bad at certain transfer rates. The problem was, some of the chipsets were poorly designed, and the AGP interface could not function at the rated speed. This meant much pain for the customer. Some companies, like Via, Sis, and Ali, have never been forgiven by their customers, as a result of some of these bad chipsets. With the current generation of AGP motherboard (AGP 3.0 spec 8X boards, for example), things are much better. There are fewer reports of compatibility problems at the hardware level. This is due, in part, to the use of smaller geometry silicon, like 0.13u or 0.11u, for the chipset. While you should still check Google, to look for any negative trends for a given motherboard or video card, in general you can expect them to work better than in the past. I have no idea whether the PCI Express x16 interface is maintaining this level of compatibility for customers or not. I would hope lessons learned during the AGP era, would be used to good advantage on PCI Express. Only time, and Google archives, will tell the whole story. HTH, Paul |
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