A7V8X-X graphics card recomendations

[Steve Jones]

Hi,

I'm puzzled by the statement in the A7V8X-X user's manual that says the
board only supports 1.5 volt graphics cards and yet the bios allows you to
setup for AGP 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x.

I thought that AGP 1x and 2x use 3.3 volt signaling, AGP 4x uses 1.5 volt
and AGP 8x uses 0.8 volt.

Can someone please explain?

I'd also appreciate any recommendations for mid-range and high-end AGP cards
that are compatible with this board.

Thanks, Steve.

 

[RobL]

Hi Steve,
I have the A78NX-X, which is the same voltage as yours for the AGP. and i
use a GFORCE FX5600 X8 AGP with no problems whatsoever
hope this helps RobL

 

[Yeeyoh]

Yeah I wondered about that as well, the guys at the computer shop didn't
seem to know if there cards were 1.5 volt or not. I ended up with a FX5200
128mb 8xAGP. I think any newer card with 8xAGP will do the 1.5volt. I did
manage to find information on some of the card makers websites as to weather
or not they use 1.5volt. You might have to check with the manufacturers web
site once you have a card in mind.
Good luck.

 

[Chris C]

Hi, all the most recent cards are ok, I'd say ones for the last 2 years at
least, including 4x. However more depends on what you want the card do, i.e.
my 'older' Ti4200P turbo easily outperformed my FX5600 Ultra. I've just
pre-ordered a ATI 9800TX which is about as quick as you can get at the
moment....
Chris C

 

[Chris C]

Ooops getting T's and X's round the wrong way I meant a 9800XT of
course.........
Chris C

 

[Paul in NC]

Here's my own AGP card (which I paid $320...it now sells for around $83)
It's an eVGA model FWIW.
It has worked great with WIN98SE, W2K, and XPPRO.

(Data below complements of AIDA32 - Enterprise System Information
http://www.aida32.hu )

Video Adapter Properties
Device Description NVIDIA GeForce3
Adapter String GeForce3
BIOS String Version 3.20.00.10.00
Chip Type GeForce3
DAC Type Integrated RAMDAC
Installed Drivers nv4_disp (6.14.10.5216 - nVIDIA Detonator 52.16)
Memory Size 64 MB

Graphics Processor Properties
Video Adapter nVIDIA GeForce3
GPU Code Name NV20
PCI Device 10DE / 0200
Transistors 57 million
Process Technology 0.15u
Bus Type AGP
Memory Size 64 MB
GPU Clock 200 MHz
RAMDAC Clock 350 MHz
Pixel Pipelines 4
TMU Per Pipeline 2
Vertex Shaders 1 (v1.1)
Pixel Shaders 1 (v1.1)
DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v8.0
Pixel Fillrate 800 MPixel/s
Texel Fillrate 1600 MTexel/s

Memory Bus Properties
Bus Type DDR
Bus Width 128-bit
Real Clock 229 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock 458 MHz
Bandwidth 7328 MB/s

My my my...how things have changed since I bought my trusty GF3.
Paul