Hi All,

I'm x-posting to the 4 specific motherboard groups that are relavant to the
top-of-the-line boards I'm looking at buying. I believe this is the
correct thing and not innapropriate. My appologies if you believe I am
mistaken.

I'm looking at buying a new motherboard, but from downloading all the top
motherboard's manuals I see that none of them support 3.3v cards.
My current video card (ASUS v8200 deluxe) appears to only run at 3.3v.

Is there any sort of adapter or other work around that I can use to get
around this?


Thanks,


-Sandra

"SandraS" <SS@...> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm x-posting to the 4 specific motherboard groups that are relavant to
the
> top-of-the-line boards I'm looking at buying. I believe this is the
> correct thing and not innapropriate. My appologies if you believe I am
> mistaken.
>
> I'm looking at buying a new motherboard, but from downloading all the top
> motherboard's manuals I see that none of them support 3.3v cards.
> My current video card (ASUS v8200 deluxe) appears to only run at 3.3v.
>
> Is there any sort of adapter or other work around that I can use to get
> around this?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -Sandra
>

The newer, recetn boards often do not support 3.3v video cards; which
sometimes
gives headache and frustration, especially those who are financially
constrained.

If you intent to use your card, some older model, like the , P4T-E, P4T-533C
may be good ones; but if you think about RAM types and some use into near
future,
it may be better to think about how much you may be able to upgrade. Then
look
for board, RAM, CPU.

A cheap video card is the FX5200, or even Ti series, which will be enough
for quite a time.

HTMH

Maximus

In article <7L6Mb.38753$(E-Mail Removed)>, SandraS <SS@...>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm x-posting to the 4 specific motherboard groups that are relavant to the
> top-of-the-line boards I'm looking at buying. I believe this is the
> correct thing and not innapropriate. My appologies if you believe I am
> mistaken.
>
> I'm looking at buying a new motherboard, but from downloading all the top
> motherboard's manuals I see that none of them support 3.3v cards.
> My current video card (ASUS v8200 deluxe) appears to only run at 3.3v.
>
> Is there any sort of adapter or other work around that I can use to get
> around this?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -Sandra

Is this your card ?

http://www.asus.com.tw/vga/agpv8200t2/overview.htm

According to that page, the V8200 is a Geforce3 Ti200.
If you look at the specification page:

http://www.asus.com.tw/vga/agpv8200t2/specification.htm

it says the card support AGP 4X, and that requires the use of 1.5V I/O
on the AGP slot. Also, looking at the picture of the edge card on
the video card, it has two slots cut in it. One slot means 3.3V compatible
and the other means 1.5V compatible - in short, the card is universal.

For some pictures that are easier to view and compare to the card in
your hand, see this handy ATI page - scroll down to see the pictures
of the edge card and what the slots cut in the card mean. I think your
combination of video card and new 1.5V-only motherboard will look like
case (e):

http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html

HTH,
Paul

Excellent!

This is my card here: http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=V8200%
20Deluxe&langs=09
, but it has the right number of slots to be universal and lists 4x in
the specification.

The only concern is the existance of the Rage Fury Maxx2 card, which
appears to have the right cuts, but isn't really universal, and in my
manual, it says the card will have problems if anything less than 3.3v
shows in the maintenance utility they have.

Looks like it's worth a try though, thanks!

Sandra



>
> Is this your card ?
>
> http://www.asus.com.tw/vga/agpv8200t2/overview.htm
>
> According to that page, the V8200 is a Geforce3 Ti200.
> If you look at the specification page:
>
> http://www.asus.com.tw/vga/agpv8200t2/specification.htm
>
> it says the card support AGP 4X, and that requires the use of 1.5V I/O
> on the AGP slot. Also, looking at the picture of the edge card on
> the video card, it has two slots cut in it. One slot means 3.3V
> compatible and the other means 1.5V compatible - in short, the card is
> universal.
>
> For some pictures that are easier to view and compare to the card in
> your hand, see this handy ATI page - scroll down to see the pictures
> of the edge card and what the slots cut in the card mean. I think your
> combination of video card and new 1.5V-only motherboard will look like
> case (e):
>
> http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html
>
> HTH,
> Paul