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04-06-2003, 04:44 PM
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Video card upgrade
This weekend when i was flipping through the ads, i saw that compusa had a sale on a geforce4 ti 4200 card for 80 dollars after rebates. This looked pretty appealing and would be a big step up from my TNT2. My problem is that i have a somewhat old gateway system with an intel tabor III motherboard, which i wasn't able to find much information on. I did see somewhere that it has an intel 440bx AGP chipset. I was wonderring if the ti4200 would work with that agp slot, as i am not sure whether or not it is AGP 2.0 compliant. (there are no system requirements on the bfg website, but the pny website says that you need an AGP2.0 compliant slot for their ti4200 card)
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04-06-2003, 05:01 PM
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Well, you might have to locate the mobo manufacturer to find out what AGP speed it's at, but I have a 440BX chipset on my mobo with a GF4 4200 card.
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04-06-2003, 07:38 PM
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A BX chipset board is only going to have a 2X AGP slot, but that card should work fine in your board, just at 2X.
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04-07-2003, 07:49 PM
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I'd be concerned about the power supply - a 300 watt is supposedly the minimum but I've run GF4 Ti's on less. I highly doubt that Gateway put a 300 watt unit in that machine.
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