Upgrade for Diamond MM Fire GL1000 pro video card?

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I have an old PII 400 mhz Dell that operates on a small network.
The old Trinitron CRT is going (and probably the Diamond GL 1000 Pro with
it). I want to keep the unit going as it's still functional (but slow).
I'm getting a LCD monitor. What would be a good cheap video card that's an
improvement on the old one and still compatible with the old SE440
motherboard.
 
why would you change the video card just because the monitor is going.
that is a nice card.
change the monitor first, then change the other if you need it.
get a nice analog flat panel from dell it and will work great.
 
I'm getting a LCD monitor. What would be a good cheap video card that's
an
improvement on the old one and still compatible with the old SE440
motherboard.
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Just pray that your video card is PCI and not ISA (I think it was called ISA
back then)

If its PCI then you can easily get a 32 meg card for under $50 when you buy
your LCD.
 
I have an old PII 400 mhz Dell that operates on a small network.
The old Trinitron CRT is going (and probably the Diamond GL 1000 Pro with
it). I want to keep the unit going as it's still functional (but slow).
I'm getting a LCD monitor. What would be a good cheap video card that's an
improvement on the old one and still compatible with the old SE440
motherboard.
Click to expand...


What type of card? AGP or PCI? Take a look at what might be
available at www.newegg.com.
 
I'm not certain about this, but I think that your system (Dell Dimension XPS
R400?) has an AGP 1.0 (1X/2X) slot. You may find this helpful as regards
compatibility:

http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/agpcompatibility.html

Here's a cheapish card that might be of interest:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127128

It's a pretty ancient card by current standards, but much newer, and faster,
than the one you have. There are some Radeons that might serve, but I assume
that you're an nVidia fan. I'm not sure that the above card is compatible,
but it seems to have the universal voltage keying.

You could also try a PCI (*not* PCI-Express) card, but I'd stay with AGP if
you can find one that fits.

It's likely that you don't need to replace your current FireGL card just to
run an LCD monitor.


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
 
I have an old PII 400 mhz Dell that operates on a small network.
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Open it to confirm that it has an AGP slot. In that era it
was common for Dell to use Intel 440BX boards, with AGP 1
slot, but on a box with integrated video it might not have a
slot, you'd then need a PCI card.


The old Trinitron CRT is going (and probably the Diamond GL 1000 Pro with
it).
Click to expand...

There is no reason to believe the Diamond GL1000 Pro is
failing. Buy a new card if you "need" one. There are
common reasons to need one, for example if it's (8MB?)
memory isn't enough for a large widescreen flat panel at
32bpp, or if you want to watch videos and would benefit from
hardware assisted MPEG decoding. Gaming it pretty much a
non-issue, not worth any $ to try to increase gaming
performance on a P2-400 as the P2 itself is the current
bottleneck.

I want to keep the unit going as it's still functional (but slow).
I'm getting a LCD monitor. What would be a good cheap video card that's an
improvement on the old one and still compatible with the old SE440
motherboard.
Click to expand...

Do you want, plan on you LCD having DVI input? Now is a
good time to decide that, personally I would choose to
support it, especially on any LCD of 19" or larger.

Most video cards will be backwards compatible, except that
your board wont' support the higher current requirements of
many modern cards, so a low-end model would be good.
Perhaps an ATI 9200 or Geforce 5200 with the DVI feature,
but unless you're sure you need a new card, I'd wait till
you've tried the old card with the new monitor.
 
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