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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:07 pm
by AgentX
As I've already posted my old system specs in another thread, it's not
necessary to post it all over again. But, for the sake of completeness, I'll
happily announce that I'm running a 5 years old 440ZX motherboard, on
which a dated sloth named Celeron 400 crawls at 66MHz FSB. My mobo
has an AGP 2x port (1.0 revision) which is currently occupied by a Taiwan
made TNT2 M64 32MB card.

My question is: What is the best AGP card available today which can be
installed on such an old system as mine. I presume the current trends like
AGP 8x cards are not voltage compatible with the older AGP ports, but still
many of them come labelled as "8x/4x compatible". It must be noted that
my current card had "4x/2x" labelled on its box.

Regards,
AgentX

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:34 pm
by Denniss
ATI 9700 and 9500 should be compatible and some of the 9800 should be compatible,too .
All lower ATI should work,too
nVidia should be supported at least up to Ti4600 - the FX cards may be compatile to AGP 1.0 ,too

For this old board it's better to use Ti4200 or Radeon 8500/9100 or 9000/9200 as max