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Michaelthehibby   10-23-2002 at 03:44:11 PM

Question:

I'm about to do an upgrade to my rather old PII 400 but I want to use as many parts of my old workhorse as possible. I'm finally getting a new case etc, and have settled on a Gigabyte G8PE667 Ultra mobo. But I have a Geforce 256 DDR graphics card, that would do until the price of the GF4600 or Radeon 9700 drops after Christmas, but only if it will work. The GF256 says it supports AGP4X. The board says it will blow up if I put a 3.3 v card in it. Do I risk it or not? The other option would be to fish out a really old Matrox Mystique 200 PCI from my bag of bits.

The GF 256 is not on the list of cards that will blow up an 845/850 mobo but the GF 2 Pro and Ultra are, which is what makes me nervous.

Anyone know the answer? Creative are being bloody useless in providing support.

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Crashman   10-23-2002 at 10:26:33 PM
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It depends on the manufacturer. A REAL GeForce2 GTS/Pro/Ultra wouldn't, but there were companies that took a "short cut" by making the cards without 1.5v compatability. Such cards which don't meet the electrical requirements of AGP4x are junk IMO. I don't know if your card is made right or not, but it depends entirely on the manufacturer, not the graphics chip.

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