AGP slot concern?

[Kathlin1963]

I'm looking at an MSI 845GMax mobo. It says that it has one AGP 4x slot (1.5 V only) Should I be concerned about the 1.5V only? What does it mean?

Thanks
Newbie Kathy

 

[chuck232]

Well, as long as you don't intend to use a 3.3V AGP VC. What video card are you planning on using?

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[Kathlin1963]

I have a ATI Radeon 8500LE. I've looked through everything and can't tell what it is. (1.5 or 3.3)

 

[chuck232]

It's 1.5V for sure. Nothing to worry about.

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[wwilco]

I recently purchased a temporary system motherboard, the Asus P4B533-VM. I have a PIV 2.26Ghz, and Crucial's 512MB DDRPC2100 Registered, ECC memory. Is this a problem on the Asus mainboard? I still have an older Guillemot 3D Prophet 32MB GeForce AGP video card. I can not find the voltage specs on it. I am also thinking this could be a problem. The system will not start the POST.

 

[chuck232]

YEah, the newer boards don't support the older 3.3V cards. Also, I'd suggest you try out a 1.5V card, cause that older card <i>may</i> have damaged your mobo.

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[Crashman]

99% of AGP4x cards supported 1.5v use, 1.5v was part of the AGP4x standard! BUT a few cards were not 100% compliant with that standard. Unfortunately, some Hercules cards were among the few non-1.5v compliant cards. Had it been an Asus, Creative, Gigabyte, Visiontek, or any of about a dozen other brands of cards with the same chip, it would be OK!

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[chuck232]

I thought the original GeForce wasn't AGP4X? Or is the Herc GeForce actually the GF2?

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[Crashman]

Dude, the TNT2 was available as AGP4x, I had a Diamond Viper V770 that actually had manual jumpers for changing the AGP voltage. So yes, the GeForce was an AGP4x chip. Anyway, Hercules even produced a Prophet II that was not 1.5v compliant.

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[kbieltz]

When researched memory for the ASUS P4B533, I found that
registered ECC DDR PC2100 dimms would not work.


kbieltz