Abit BH6 compatible with AGP 2x?

[superflysocal]

I use to know this stuff but haven't mess with my old computer in a while.

Can the Abit BH6 which is a 1st gen BX motherboard handle a AGP 2x vid card. I know it won't do a 4x-only card due to voltage diffferences. Or am I confused with my logic? Is it more like the new gen MB are not compatible with old AGP vid cards? I can't remember.

Anyway i trying to use my old computer for a HomeTheater PC.

If I can use a AGP 2x card, which is recommended for this purpose using Powerstrip, Radeon or Geforce?

I am running a TNT2 card now and cannot get satifactory interlaced modes, but progressive modes are fine.

 

[Peter]

The vast majority of cards are "universal", meaning they're backward compatible to 2x mainboards like yours. The only thing you need to keep an eye on is power consumption - older boards can't feed the newer high end cards.

HOWEVER: If your problem is in the area of 2D resolutions being available or not, a new card isn't necessarily going to help you. Potentially, even the oldest crap VGA chips are programmable enough to produce any weird resolution you want them to - it's up to the driver to do it though. (Ad: In Linux/XFree, you can make your own ... my 2nd monitor currently runs 768x576 at 100 Hz interlaced, for perfect fullscreen PAL TV )

 

[Brian48]

I think you have a few things mixed up. The BH6 is a 1x and 2x compatible board. It does use the older AGP 1.0 standard, vice AGP 2.0 and/or AGP Pro, but other than that, it should run in 2x AGP just fine. Most of the cards out today are still backward compatible to the AGP 1.0.

 

[oldfart]

AGP 2X and 4X cards will work just fine.