Vaughn Treude wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2004 04:45, you wrote:
>
>>In a message dated 6/28/2004 1:42:13 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
>>kevin@kevino.org writes:
>>According to page 1-9 of my manual:
>>
>>"This motherboard has an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) slot that supports
>>+1.5V AGP 8X cards."
>>Probably means it CAN, not that it ONLY CAN.
>>
>>It may indeed only support 1.5v cards, but I belive you can't physically
>>fit the wrong type in.
>>
>>Why not borrow someone's spare non-8x card and test?
>
>
> Wow, I appreciate all the good feedback I've been getting.
> The reason I started this thread was because I'm planning on ordering a
> motherboard upgrade soon, probably from mwave.com or newegg.com. (I'm
> waiting on a client to pay me, or for the price of RAM to drop, whichever
> comes first.) The last time I did so I had the unpleasant surprise that my
> existing 2x AGP board would not work in the new motherboard. It had to be
> 4x or greater, so I ran to Fry's that same day and got one. This time I
> figured I'd order the video card along with everything else, save a little
> money. The on-line specs for this particular Asus motherboard do seem to
> indicate that it only supports 8x AGP - though of course, you could use a PCI
> board instead, but it seems to be a bit of a waste of its capabilities.
>
Since you're looking at mwave, you might consider getting the video card
included for a few bucks more:
(A7N8X-VM/400)
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA19855
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