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i am using an Epox EP-8KMM3i-X VIA KM400 which can use up to AGP 8x with an Athlon XP 3000+ and 2 gigs of SDRAM ... when you regain your composure and pick yourself up off the floor, i'll continue ....
This is my secondary comp, and i do not anticipate being able to replace it for at least a year. My GeForce 4 TI4200 agp 8x 64M card fried; i put in an even older card to limp along till i could replace it, so i am currently using a GeForce 2 MX 400 ... it makes me want to cry when i actually see it typed out, hehe.
I ordered a Radeon HD 4650 AGP 8x as my last stand with this comp; it would post and get almost all the way logged in to the desktop before freezing the comp... after several calls / live chats, etc with different tech support (ATI, XFX, etc.) it seemed the powersupply was ok ( i actually even got another PS and installed it to double check), everything checked out, but they recommended flashing the bios, etc ... well Epox stopped supporting this board ... i know it's old, but remind me to buy from them again (<--please note heavy dripping sarcasm). Lastly, they said that this motherboard was made before PCI-E was made, and that the HD 4650 was basicly a PCI-E card converted to AGP format, which my computer doesn't like...
This leads me to my question; can anyone recommend the most stable, recent and (all things considered) decent performing NATIVELY AGP card?
I have no idea of the validity, but one commenter on the New Egg forums said the HD line didnt' play nice with the VIA chipset. I did uninstall the graphics drivers before removing the card and used CCleaner to clean up the registry before installing the new card, tried AGP hotfixes, etc. just to cover some obvious things. Both cards that were working are Geforce, i have nothing against ATI ( i use a HD 4870 in my main system, and it's great), but i'm leaning toward another Geforce, unless someone has a good reason not too?
I know this hardly seems worthy of your consideration, but i am actually still occasionally playing this comp with DDO ... at about 8 fps ... PLEASE help, i beg of you!
This is my secondary comp, and i do not anticipate being able to replace it for at least a year. My GeForce 4 TI4200 agp 8x 64M card fried; i put in an even older card to limp along till i could replace it, so i am currently using a GeForce 2 MX 400 ... it makes me want to cry when i actually see it typed out, hehe.
I ordered a Radeon HD 4650 AGP 8x as my last stand with this comp; it would post and get almost all the way logged in to the desktop before freezing the comp... after several calls / live chats, etc with different tech support (ATI, XFX, etc.) it seemed the powersupply was ok ( i actually even got another PS and installed it to double check), everything checked out, but they recommended flashing the bios, etc ... well Epox stopped supporting this board ... i know it's old, but remind me to buy from them again (<--please note heavy dripping sarcasm). Lastly, they said that this motherboard was made before PCI-E was made, and that the HD 4650 was basicly a PCI-E card converted to AGP format, which my computer doesn't like...
This leads me to my question; can anyone recommend the most stable, recent and (all things considered) decent performing NATIVELY AGP card?
I have no idea of the validity, but one commenter on the New Egg forums said the HD line didnt' play nice with the VIA chipset. I did uninstall the graphics drivers before removing the card and used CCleaner to clean up the registry before installing the new card, tried AGP hotfixes, etc. just to cover some obvious things. Both cards that were working are Geforce, i have nothing against ATI ( i use a HD 4870 in my main system, and it's great), but i'm leaning toward another Geforce, unless someone has a good reason not too?
I know this hardly seems worthy of your consideration, but i am actually still occasionally playing this comp with DDO ... at about 8 fps ... PLEASE help, i beg of you!
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