von shrad Posted February 5, 2000 Share Posted February 5, 2000 I am running CM on a PII 450 w/128 megs of RAM. Right now it has a 8 meg Monster 2/ voodoo 2 chipset and I am looking to upgrade it. Heres the problem. My friend gave me a Voodoo 3 AGP card but when I opened up my cover I discovered I have intergrated video without any AGP slots. Not being well versed in comp. things my questions are these; Are there any good accelerator cards for the PCI slots that will give me a huge jump in performance? Are they as good as AGP? Is there a way to 'put'a AGP slot on my motherboard? Thanks in advance, VS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Thomas William Davie Posted February 5, 2000 Share Posted February 5, 2000 Von Shrad; here's what you might do if you're comfortable with the insides of your computer. a) If you have the motherboard manual, disable the onboard video by removing jumpers for the video. Pop in a good PCI card. For not too much $, the Voodoo 3 3500 is decent or the Voodoo 3 3000 if you DON'T have the motherboard manual. download a copy of SiSoft's Sandra (a system analysis tool). You can identify motherboard jumpers from this program. Again, disable and pop in a PCI card. Also, it might help to know if your system is PCI 2.1 Email me if you need more specific advice. Tom ------------------ email address: thodavie@videon.wave.ca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von shrad Posted February 5, 2000 Author Share Posted February 5, 2000 more specifically, what is a good pci card to buy? I dont know how to check to see if my system is PCI2.1 or not. What diffrence does that make? How do I check to see? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfe Posted February 5, 2000 Share Posted February 5, 2000 Since you have a PII-450, your motherboard is atleast PCI 2.1 compliant. All chipsets since the Intel 430VX are PCI 2.1 or higher. I don't think there's a PCI variant of the V3-3500. But the V3-3000 can easily be found in PCI. There's supposedly a TNT2 (regular, not ultra) that comes in PCI made by Asus, but I have no idea where you might find one. :-( http://www.asus.com.tw/Products/Addon/Vga/pci-v3800/index.html Good luck. - Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolColJ Posted February 6, 2000 Share Posted February 6, 2000 Since you alrady have the card - its cheaper to buy a new motherboard with a AGP!! ------------------ CCJ aka BLITZ_Force My Hompage ----> http://www.geocities.com/coolcolj Double your immersion with my Tweaked Textures and Saving Private Ryan sound set mods for CM!! Check out my music while your there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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