Hey everyone, well I just went out and bought a 9600XT, just to get home and realize that the Dell I bought about 8 months ago... dont ask me why i bought a Dell, I just did, does not have an AGP slot. WTF is up with that? The Compaq that my dad bought two and a half years ago had an AGP slot... and this comp doesnt? Wow, Im really pissed off. I would have to buy an entirely new mb to be able to install this card wouldnt I?
well if it doesn't have an AGP slot, yeah I guess you would but I think that the power supply needs a special connector that you can only find on the motherboards like the one you have. what's the model of your system ?
One more question. The card says that it it will only run on 4x/8x on the box, so if you tried to place it in something below that, it wouldnt work at all? And my model is a 2350 from Del..
That's right, it wouldn't work. Only the 9200 series is made both in agp and pci versions. If I were you, I'd get another motherboard because no pci card come close to an agp card in terms of performance. And I think performance is important to you, or else you wouldn't have bought a 9600XT.
The 2x, 4x, 8x agp transfer rates also correspond with a voltage. Older AGP cards run at 3.3V. 4x runs 1.5V and 8x has like 0.8V (if I recall correctly). Like I said in the other thread, since Dell uses a proprietary PSU, buy a new one of those as well. And a new case since a standard ATX PSU might not work in an mATX system as far as size goes.
hey i have just bought a dell dimension 4600 a while back not too long and i need a video card how do i check if my computer has an agp slot b4 i buy it
You will have a new one 4600 and it has a slot on it for my video card. I have a 9800 Pro 128mb in mine.
