What card for 1.5v AGP slot?

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jm667

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I have an old HP computer with onboard graphics and want to add a video card to have dual monitors. It is just mainly to expand my work area, not doing anything consuming a lot of resources, so just an inexpensive card will do that supports dual monitors. The AGP port in the system says "1.5v AGP only". Can someone point me into the direction of a card that would work for something like that, or what i need to look for to make sure it is compatible?
 
Thank you for the help. But if I were to just pick one up at a local store, what do I look for? I don't see anything in the specs that says it fits this particular slot. Does it just have to have that shorter type of AGP adapater (I notice some have more pins and are longer)? Is it ok to have the two nothces to fit that slot? Or does it say somewhere where it fits the 1.5v slot?
 
Look for one that will fit:
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As long as you can see the contacts where it plugs in, you can see identify it as 1.5V, 3.3V, or universal.


Ideally, you'll want the Nvidia Geforce 9000 series and up or the ATI Radeon HD4000 series and up, but the Geforce 8000 and Radeon HD3000 cards would be alright as well.

For a ballpark estimate of how powerful they all are, look here:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
 
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Ok, so I know how the notches are different in the slots between the 1.5 and the 3.3 and that universal would fit both. So are all of these cards going to have two notches so they would fit all 3 types of slots? So I can get one with either the two notches, or if it just has the one notch that would fit where the 1.5 is? And does 4x or 8x matter, or are they all compatible? Thanks again.
 
The one in johnb35 link will work in a 3.3 or 5V slot. As long as the card has both notches it is backward compatible,
 
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