will this agp card work on my old computer?

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I would like to know if this video card will work on my computer:

http://tinyurl.com/4v6a2

I have an Amd Athlon (K7) 1.3ghz. I know the psu and ram is sufficient on my
computer, but I cannot find the system requirements for this video card. My
bios info says I have a 2x slot but 4x will work and up to 64mb. I don't
have any manuals and am not sure who manufactured the motherboard, so this
is all the info I can provide.

PowerColor Radeon 7000 / 64MB DDR / AGP 4X / VGA / DVI / TV Out / Video Card
 
I would like to know if this video card will work on my computer:

http://tinyurl.com/4v6a2

I have an Amd Athlon (K7) 1.3ghz. I know the psu and ram is sufficient on my
computer, but I cannot find the system requirements for this video card. My
bios info says I have a 2x slot but 4x will work and up to 64mb. I don't
have any manuals and am not sure who manufactured the motherboard, so this
is all the info I can provide.

PowerColor Radeon 7000 / 64MB DDR / AGP 4X / VGA / DVI / TV Out / Video Card
Click to expand...


Yes it is compatible with your system, assuming you really
do have the physical AGP slot on the board (since you only
mention bios, but bios can list a logical "port" that
doesn't have a physical connector onboard in some systems).
Most do of course but some, particularly OEM or mATX boards
may not have the actual AGP slot even if the chipset has AGP
capabilities (via integrated video).
 
Xu said:
I would like to know if this video card will work on my computer:

http://tinyurl.com/4v6a2

I have an Amd Athlon (K7) 1.3ghz. I know the psu and ram is sufficient on
my computer, but I cannot find the system requirements for this video
card. My bios info says I have a 2x slot but 4x will work and up to 64mb.
I don't have any manuals and am not sure who manufactured the motherboard,
so this is all the info I can provide.

PowerColor Radeon 7000 / 64MB DDR / AGP 4X / VGA / DVI / TV Out / Video
Card
Click to expand...

Any mobo that took a Athlon 1.3ghz had an AGP x4 slot (if it had AGP at
all). Open up the case and look for the PCI slots - 3 or 5 of them about 9cm
long and usually white. To the right (in the middle of the board) there
should be a similar slot set back about 2cm and usually brown - thats the
AGP slot. The 64mb mentioned in the bios is either an aperture size or the
amount of memory your onboard graphics chip uses of system RAM. It is NOT a
limit on the amount of memory your new graphics card can have. Forget the
Radeon 7000 - look for a 2nd hand GeForce 4ti 4200 or 4800 (depending on
budget) on Ebay with 128mb of memory. That'll go nicely with your 1.3 CPU.
Older games including stuff built on the Quake3 engine will run fine on
that.
 
Hi Xu

I checked the specs of your card.

GPU/VPU: RADEON 7000
RAMDAC: 300 MHz
Maximum Resolution: 2048 x 1536 @ 75Hz
Video Memory: 64MB
Memory Type: DDR SDRAM
Memory Bandwidth: 2.4GB/sec.
Interface Type: AGP
Interface Speed: 4X
Connector(s): DVI, TV/S-Video, VGA

Yes, in short, it WILL work with your system.

You can also check out this page if you're thinking of getting a new
video card:
http://www.build-your-own-computers.com/how-to-choose-a-video-card.html

Gary Hendricks
http://www.build-your-own-computers.com
 
Thanks everybody. The thing is my board was made in 1999. It is very old. I
had to go into archived and cached pages to find out anything about it at
all. The one thing I did find is that it would go up to a 64mb AGP 2x card
and could support 4x. I have never seen specs that would even list the 64mb.
The AGP slot does look a little different than my newer computer which is
4x/8x. This is exactly what it says:

a.. One 4X AGP slot for Video Upgrade & it support AGP 2.0 compliant
interface
I just found out the board is the M810LMR, made my American Megatrends I
thing, with a SiS730s chipset. The board has also been known as the ECS
K7SEM ver 3.0.
 
No, this is for my kids. And all the computer needs is a good video card.
The games they are playing now are not that demanding. But they also like to
watch DVD's on the monitor.

It seems like any of the Nvidida Geforce Fx or Mx would work. I could not
find any on Newegg or Tigerdirect though. I think I had better definitely go
with one of the older ones that says nothing about "8x." I guess I will have
to forget about the VIVO. It will definitely have to have dvi and svideo out
though.
 
Xu said:
No, this is for my kids. And all the computer needs is a good video card.
The games they are playing now are not that demanding. But they also like
to watch DVD's on the monitor.

It seems like any of the Nvidida Geforce Fx or Mx would work. I could not
find any on Newegg or Tigerdirect though. I think I had better definitely
go with one of the older ones that says nothing about "8x." I guess I will
have to forget about the VIVO. It will definitely have to have dvi and
svideo out though.
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Have a look at this FAQ - it has a section on VGA cards with a list of
compatible cards. http://radel.inet.net.nz/m810lmr.html - avoid an MX card
as they dont support shaders. Looks like a finicky motherboard but you
should still be able to get a reasonable card on Ebay. A Radeon 9550 or
GF4ti should do though you may need to run at 1xAGP for stability.
 
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