New Video Card in ASUS P2B - Suggestions

[wworth]

Hi,

I have an Asus P2B, which I just sqeezed a bit more life out of by adding a powerleap slocket and 1.4 Gig Tualatin chip. It is working great, but the 440BX chipset has a limitation of 2x for video (at least AGP, not sure about PCI). I called and asked Asus what version AGP this board supported, and they didn't know, but I did find that it only supports 3.3 Volt.

Anyway, I'd like to upgrade my video card (currently using SIS 6326 chipset AGP) to something from this century, but don't know if it is worth it with my motherboard - and if so, whether to go AGP or PCI given the limitaion of my AGP slot. I'd like to do moderate gaming - Warcraft III - that kind of thing - nothing as demanding as Quake or anything.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[dumdum]

You probably won't see too much of a difference but just go take a look at pricewatch and see if anyone is selling 2xAGP cards and get the one with the most memory. You can probably pick one up for almost nothing. I don't think you're going to find anything with more than 16mb memory on it though. We are always looking for new members at our computer forums:

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[wworth]

Thanks for the quick response. I take it from your response I would be throwing money out the window if I were to buy newer PCI board (GeForce, or the like with high memory), because it would either A) not work, or B) work no better than a 2x AGP card. Is that correct?

 

[dumdum]

You may see a little increase since a newer board would have more memory but it's still only going to run at 2X. There's no way you're going to increase the 2X pipeline. I would just look for a cheap 2X card with as much memory as you can find. We are always looking for new members at our computer forums:

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