My motherboard supports agp 2.0 4x video cards. Currently, I have a radeon 64mb card.
- will it be fine if i installed a nvidia 256mb agp 8x/4x card or will only a radeon card work?
- if either is fine which is preferred. I have an intel pentium 4 processor
thanks.|||cant see why not!!!! suck it and see|||Any AGP card (4x or better) should be just fine - to be sure, check with your motherboard manufacturer or PC builder. There is a difference with AGP2x I believe relating to power.|||older video cards used 3.3 volts but newer ones use 1.5 volts. Some motherboards support both but if you have a 64mb radeon with 4x then I would guess you have 1.5v.
Most 256mb cards will be 4x or 8x and will slot in perfectly to replace your old card.
ATI vs nVidia is down to what you want and how much you want to spend. nVidia seem to have cards in the low, medium and hiigh end whereas ATI only really have low and high.
Personally, I have ATI Radeon 9800xt and that's really good and is rock solid but puts out a lot of heat. You may need to invest in better cooling for your PC if you're moving up the video card market.
Pick what games you want to play, find the supported cards and then see what you can afford. Most cards don't really run well on 8x so 4x is just as good.
Also, if you have a low-end P4 (under 2ghz) you'd probably be better getting a CPU upgrade too as a brilliant graphics card will be held up by a slow processor. Also, get good RAM and lots of it.
Hope this helps.|||As long as its agp like you said your motherboard supports.
You can do that.
What you can't do is put agp in pci express or pci in pci-express
agp gotta be agp
pci gotta be pci
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