I'm stuck

dave1701

dave1701

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I am using an Nvidia Geforce 6200 (256mb) graphics card. I originally got a Nvidia 6200 AGP graphics card with 512mbDDR2RAM and it looks cool too. However, I ended up getting a Mobo with no AGP slot. (Still angry about that) I only have 3 PCI slots. The PCI cards cost alot and arent very good. AGP is slightly bettter. My video card is bottlenecking me on some games and I really feel this AGP one is the one I should be using. I would need a new motherboard with an AGP slot though. But every time I look at this poor AGP card I have and can't use, it drives me crazy!!!

Am I overlooking an option here or am I really stuck?
 
Well unless you plan on getting a new motherboard, yes, unfortunately you are stuck. Also unfortunately, your hardware all around is quite outdated, so finding a new mobo that's compatible would be quite the trick and in all honesty, probably not worth it.
 
Memory type and amount usually makes very little difference on low-end cards, not enough to justify a new motherboard IMO.

Unless you happen to find one for $10 or so, I wouldn't even consider it.
 
just out of interest what mobo do you have?

i have a very. very simalar setup in england (basically the same but a higher clocked p4) and i find it hard to believe that they would have made one without agp, agp was standard back then and pci-ex was just coming in.

Edit: I just tried to find you a better mobo and there are actually a few that don't have agp, my old pentium II board had agp crazyness
 
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Well, I bought this motherboard that apparently came out of an Compaq d510. The one I bought had an AGP slot, but the whole mobo turned out to be defective, so they told me to keep that one, and they'ed send another. It turned out the other didn't have an AGP slot. It had a spot for it, but it wasn't there. I contacted them again, but they said they didn't have any more with an AGP slot and sent me my money back. The second mobo, however, was fully functional and that is what I am using now. I suppose the computer it was made for was not really inteded to be much more than an office computer and they thought it only needed the intigrated video.

PS: How fast is your P4? Just curious.
 
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dave1701 said:
Well, I bought this motherboard that apparently came out of an Compaq d510. The one I bought had an AGP slot, but the whole mobo turned out to be defective, so they told me to keep that one, and they'ed send another. It turned out the other didn't have an AGP slot. It had a spot for it, but it wasn't there. I contacted them again, but they said they didn't have any more with an AGP slot and sent me my money back. The second mobo, however, was fully functional and that is what I am using now. I suppose the computer it was made for was not really inteded to be much more than an office computer and they thought it only needed the intigrated video.

PS: How fast is your P4? Just curious.
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it's pretty fast the full specs are

2.8ghz northwood, 2gb ram, asus mobo and a x800pro.
I managed to play games like doom 3 and fear on max settings, aa and af, with only slight frame slowdown at certain times, it flys through windows 7 as well no problem.
 
Cool. I've got the same 2.8 ghz with 2.25gb ram. Was thinking about windows 7, but I thought it would be too taxing.
 
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