Video Card ?

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Now that I have a new P4 system my graphics are Integrated VIA ProSavage8 Graphics but I have a empty AGP slot its a 1 x AGP 4X (0.8V, 1.5V only) 3 x PCI in my MB so I was wondering if I can use my old ATI RAGE PRO GL AGP128 32MB Video Card in my new system? I know its a old card with 32MB but its better then Integrated Graphics I got now, not even sure if its 16 or 32MB of graphics & I have (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) will that matter at all?

[rcdraft]

That should work nicely, although it looks like your onboard graphics is better than your old card. Don't forget to disable onboard graphics to aviod conflict, if you chose to go with the ati card.

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That should work nicely, although it looks like your onboard graphics is better than your old card. Don't forget to disable onboard graphics to aviod conflict, if you chose to go with the ati card.
Really I never know that how can you tell? Here's a link to my MB site My Motherboard (http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4VP-MX&langs=09) then if thats the case then I wont install the old video card. :)

[AMD]

An old ATI rage card will not work in your motherboard unless it supports 1.5V AGP 4x - most of them don't. They're lousy anyway; nothing better than what you have right now.

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Check out the graphics in NFSHP2 there bad I cant even play it cuz of these graphics.

[AMD]

You get what you pay for - an onboard VIA GPU is not designed for gaming.

Geforce FX 5200 or Radeon 9200 = about $60 - still low end, but better. A mid range card is approximately $130 - $250.

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Well I'm happy with my new system just that game looks like that the rest or good, later on I can buy a video card either for the AGP slot or 1 of my PCI slots.

[chief]

go agp.

[Ken_ver_1_5]

Check out the graphics in NFSHP2 there bad I cant even play it cuz of these graphics.lol that picture reminds me of
my old card and need for speed I was driving a shadow the car would
never show up.

as said get a good agp card and you'll do fine for gaming.

[rcdraft]

AMD, I have the same old ATI rage card and slapped it in my rig and it works, and I checked before I posted. The ASUS P4VP-MX and it has 1xAGP 4x (1.5 V/ 0.8 V). It should work, as I said.

[Athlon_9800]

Check out the graphics in NFSHP2 there bad I cant even play it cuz of these graphics.

That's a sweet shot, man! Some sexy graphics, I must say.

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That's a sweet shot, man! Some sexy graphics, I must say.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! :)

[x86/Z80asm]

NFS2 HP looked and ran very well on my Athlon 900 with GeForce2MX. Well the VIA chip was made by S3 (which comes as no surprise to me because I used to have a Savage4, which had a lot of glitches). S3 has good cards and could easily match ATI and nVidia's current midrange products if they wrote proper drivers...

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That should work nicely, although it looks like your onboard graphics is better than your old card. Don't forget to disable onboard graphics to aviod conflict, if you chose to go with the ati card.
How do I disable the onboard graphics?

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NFS2 HP looked and ran very well on my Athlon 900 with GeForce2MX. Well the VIA chip was made by S3 (which comes as no surprise to me because I used to have a Savage4, which had a lot of glitches). S3 has good cards and could easily match ATI and nVidia's current midrange products if they wrote proper drivers...
I never heard of this onboard graphics before, how can I tell how many MB it is?

[AMD]

Onboard video "cards" do not have their own memory - they just share the system RAM.

[AMD]

AMD, I have the same old ATI rage card and slapped it in my rig and it works, and I checked before I posted. The ASUS P4VP-MX and it has 1xAGP 4x (1.5 V/ 0.8 V). It should work, as I said.



An old ATI rage card will not work in your motherboard unless it supports 1.5V AGP 4x.

I couldn't find much info about that card - the ones recognized as "rage" range from the 8Mb Xpert 98 to dual GPU and 64Mb of memory.

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I couldn't find much info about that card - the ones recognized as "rage" range from the 8Mb Xpert 98 to dual GPU and 64Mb of memory.
This is a ATI Rage Xpert 2000 32MB video card not the 98 one.

[chief]

How do I disable the onboard graphics?

check your motherboard manual, you'll have to disable it in the BIOS.

[AMD]

According to this (http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=325), it does support AGP 4x. Either way, I really wouldn't bother.

See the picture...

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Since I installed a fresh copy of winxp pro & other stuff from my motherboard cd & java also direct x 9.1 my NFSHP2 plays great now... :) :) :)

[Ken_ver_1_5]

Since I installed a fresh copy of winxp pro & other stuff from my motherboard cd & java also direct x 9.1 my NFSHP2 plays great now... :) :) :)now thats better:)

[x86/Z80asm]

Just as a side note you motherboard has a VIA ProSavageDDR video card. As I said before, S3's drivers are OK for 2D stuff but a bit spotty in the 3D department. The last S3 card I bought was the Savage4 (back in 2000, '99) never bought an S3 card since, it was either nVidia or ATI since then.

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Just as a side note you motherboard has a VIA ProSavageDDR video card. As I said before, S3's drivers are OK for 2D stuff but a bit spotty in the 3D department. The last S3 card I bought was the Savage4 (back in 2000, '99) never bought an S3 card since, it was either nVidia or ATI since then.

O RLY? :ggl:

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Just as a side note you motherboard has a VIA ProSavageDDR video card. As I said before, S3's drivers are OK for 2D stuff but a bit spotty in the 3D department. The last S3 card I bought was the Savage4 (back in 2000, '99) never bought an S3 card since, it was either nVidia or ATI since then.
So far my video card is good I dont need to buy a new one, until it fails me its good enough for me! :)