Video Card Install?

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cee134

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So can I install a Nvidia 7300LE (I think this is the Video Card) into a ASUS P5VDC-MX motherboard with Pentium 4 CPU? I have Windows XP Professional.

If not what would be a good Video Card for this Motherboard, 1G DDR2 soon to be 2G DDR2 RAM. I want to play older games, nothing new.


Expansion Slots for Motherboard:
1 x AGP8X/4X (1.5V only)
1 x PCI Express x1
2 x PCI, PCI 2.2
 
You can only install it providing the 7300LE is an AGP card and not a PCI-Express card. There is a difference and they are not interchangeable.
 
It's not a AGP upon inspection. I don't have the Power supply on hand, Computer is at my parents, but they said I could upgrade it if I wanted too.

Any good AGP 1.5v x4 cards you know of that are still being made? It says it can take x8 .08v but I read that it may not work as well. Since it's a Pentium 4 3.0-3.5 GHz (don't remember) I can't do to much, but anything would be better then what it does now.
 
If you were going to bother purchasing a graphics card, then you definitely want to get a X8 AGP card. The best bet is this HIS IceQ H467QS1GHA Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 AGP 4X/8X HDCP Ready Video Card but its 100 bucks.

If thats too much then for $60 you can get this VisionTek 400732 Radeon HD 3650 512MB DDR2 AGP Video Card

Or go to ebay and get a second hand AGP card.

It really comes down to three questions:

  1. What do you want to do with it? Game, watch HD videos on your computer, ?
  2. How much money do you want to spend?
  3. What Power Supply Unit you currently have. Look on the sticker at its model number and brand.

Only a proper look at all three will get you the best option. In all likelyhood your PSU will not be designed to be able to deliver the 12V power required. Its important you check this before installing a new card. Replace it with a 400 - 500W Corsair or XFX etc.

But if it were me, id get a i3, 1155 board, 4GB DDR3 and a graphics card and PSU. Depends on your budget i guess.
 
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I would take the i3 anyway and scrap the graphics card entirely if it can't be fit into budget. You will get better graphics performance as they outperform the low end current gen graphics cards (or rather lest gen now of the 500 and 6000 series), which outperform the mid-end cards of the 3000 series easily. Will also blow away the P4 system as it is now, even with HDD bottleneck
 
Yeah, best bet is definitely to upgrade.

BUT I did have that same exact HIS 4670 AGP, and although my 570 is still soooo much better, it handled borderlands, CoD, Fallout, Oblivion with medium-high graphics. If you can only spend around $100 and have no way to save or acquire money, the 4670 is nothing to shrug about. (ok, maybe a little)
 
claptonman said:
Yeah, best bet is definitely to upgrade.

BUT I did have that same exact HIS 4670 AGP, and although my 570 is still soooo much better, it handled borderlands, CoD, Fallout, Oblivion with medium-high graphics. If you can only spend around $100 and have no way to save or acquire money, the 4670 is nothing to shrug about. (ok, maybe a little)
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Yeah but he'll need a new PSU and this is why its economically a poor upgrade path. Better off spending the 100 on a i3.
 
Aastii said:
Take H61 over H67. You don't get anything extra that is really game changing, but it costs less and you have confirmed Ivy Bridge support from just about all manufacturers now after a BIOS flash

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157254
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Extra PCIe lanes is why I would choose the H67. A year from now when he may want a GTX570 or something that will need the extra lanes, it would be a shame not to have them.

The H61 also loses 2 SATA ports, has no SATA 6GB, loses another FOUR USB ports and you also lose the ability to use any RAID systems.

For the extra cash I would choose the H67. Secondly I thought the only true confirmed support with Ivy Bridge is in the Z68 chipset? I am sure it will cover more, but has the H61/67 been confirmed?

H67 is a better bet.
 
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bigfellla said:
Extra PCIe lanes is why I would choose the H67. A year from now when he may want a GTX570 or something that will need the extra lanes, it would be a shame not to have them.

The H61 also loses 2 SATA ports, has no SATA 6GB, loses another FOUR USB ports and you also lose the ability to use any RAID systems.

For the extra cash I would choose the H67. Secondly I thought the only true confirmed support with Ivy Bridge is in the Z68 chipset? I am sure it will cover more, but has the H61/67 been confirmed?

H67 is a better bet.
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The board I linked has a PCIe x16 port

It does have SATA 6.0 ports

It has 6 USB ports before you consider that you can have 4 additional ones and that a USB controller costs a hell of a lot less than the ~$30 difference

I think we can assume OP won't be using RAID given they will only be playing older games. If they ever did want to though, again, a RAID controller can be bought for much less than the price difference.

Yes there is confirmed H61 support and Z68 support. So far as I am aware there is no P67 or H67 support:

http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech...rds-support-ivy-bridge-cpus-after-bios-update

http://event.msi.com/mb/22nm/

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21433

H61 and Z68 are confirmed however there are hints at, but no confirmation so far as I can find, to say that P67 and H67 will definitely support it. From the likes of Asus, they have said that all Rev. 3 boards will do, so all Z68/H61 will but only some P67/H67 will
 
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