GeCube ATI cards for P5GL-MX ?

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gdevil4

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Hi to all,
I'd like to ask some questions about the mobo ASUS P5GL-MX I recently bought. Well the problem is, I heard that it has a limited graphic card compatibility list. Is that true? Will I be able to buy an ATI gecube x600xt and install it without having any incompatibilities or other issues? I searched all over google to find an answer but found nothing :( Can ya help cause the onboard 915gl sucks a bit...
Thanks for reading :)
 
I've never heard of a motherboard only accepting certain cards. If its an AGP 8x, i would assume that you could use any 8x video card.
 
Thnx for answering,
Well neither I heard a thing like that, but in the booklet that comes with the motherboard, there's a gfx qualified list (containing only ASUS cards) and a warning message saying, "Use only qualified cards; other cards may cause boot system failure or gfx errors!" o_O
Well i don't know the gravity of this warning message, maybe it's only for promotional purposes. :confused:
Btw, the slot is PCIe x16 which supports 4x PCIe cards (!). Maybe this makes the incompatibility. Well, the only way to know is to buy the card and test it :/
I'll let u know the results if other user has the same answer/problem.
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i dont think you'll have much of a problem getting the x600xt to work in your pc.
however, to be shure, id suggest you mail asus support and ask.
:)
 
Well i have some results and probably helpful info, if a user experiences the same problem. Do not use the GeCube ati x700 with p5gl-mx, use ASUS EAX700 instead (same chipset and specs), as described in the manual. With gecube x700, games crash all the time. Btw, the motherboard is a bottleneck for advanced cards due to 4x PCI express speed mode (limited to 2GB/s transfer rate instead of 8GB/s that 16x offers).
 
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