Can I "piggyback" high-end video cards?

[Michael]

Well, not exactly cards - I recently purchased a Nvidia
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 128MB AGP video card - then
purchased a new computer which has the exact same video
capabilities - but on-board, accessed via the BIOS. Does
anybody know if I can use the "old", nearly $200 video
card in the new computer to improve graphic performance?
I play a lot of video-intensive games.... thanks much -

 

[Strontium]

I don't believe so.

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Michael stood up at show-n-tell, in [email protected],
and said:

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Michael,

I don't recommend it. Stick to the AGP card, and disable
your onboard video. Sure, it would be awesome to drive
multiple monitors and some games even allow you to span
across several of them, however you're sacrificing quality
and performance. On board graphics will also lessen the
available ram and CPU power the game would have used.

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| Well, not exactly cards - I recently purchased a Nvidia
| GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 128MB AGP video card - then
| purchased a new computer which has the exact same video
| capabilities - but on-board, accessed via the BIOS. Does
| anybody know if I can use the "old", nearly $200 video
| card in the new computer to improve graphic performance?
| I play a lot of video-intensive games.... thanks much -

 

[David B.]

Impossible, the onboard chip is likely AGP as well, and you CANNOT have 2 AGP cards installed in a computer, if you install your old
card, the onboard will become non-functional.

 

[jay]

-----Original Message-----
Well, not exactly cards - I recently purchased a Nvidia
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 128MB AGP video card - then
purchased a new computer which has the exact same video
capabilities - but on-board, accessed via the BIOS. Does
anybody know if I can use the "old", nearly $200 video
card in the new computer to improve graphic performance?
I play a lot of video-intensive games.... thanks much -
.
yes you can just put it into your pci or agp slot and

restart your computer

 

[Delwin Lee [MSFT]]

No. (You may, however, be able to use both cards in a multi-mon
configuration.)

 

[David B.]

No you cannot, see my reply.