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AGP confusion

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Hello, and thanks to anyone reading my post regarding outdated technology. I purchased an older computer from my friend's work. They were upgrading their computers and selling the old ones for only 25 bucks to their employees. I felt that the XP pro license alone was worth that. I plan to use this as a bedroom comp. Mostly just surfing and would like to run it to an LCD tv for movies, videos and such. Maybe a little lite gaming, but gotta better system for that. I replaced the old 100W PSU with a 350W micro atx PSU I have had sitting around. I rewired with nice new cables, and added a Sony DVD burner from a previous computer. Now I would like to put a graphics card in, hopefully something with DVI rather than having to use the VGA output. Thing is, I just can't figure out what this Mobo supports. The AGP slot is brown and seems to be keyed for 1.5V. I know that it won't take an 8X card...so is this a 1, 2 or 4X slot? I am guessing 4X, since what I have read is that 1.5V is typically for a 4X card...but the cards I look at that will do 4X and 8X always seem to be keyed with both the 3.3V and 1.5V, unlike the slot on my Mobo. I have searched all over the net for info on the board specs, but can't find anything. The board is an IBM model 49P1599. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance for your advice.
 
Radeon 9000 AGP is a 1x/2x/4x card with DVI output. They sell on eBay for around $30 unless you can find an auction and pick one up cheaper.

Otherwise just look for a basic PCI card with DVI output (FX5200 etc) on eBay or newegg. Unfortunately unless you win a cheap auction it looks like you're going to pay more for the DVI output than you did for the whole computer.

What's wrong with the VGA output on the board?
 
Thanks for the replies and suggestions. I did not see the spec page that UberCheap sent. That Radeon 9000 seems like a nice little upgrade. Denithor asked what is wrong with the VGA port....I was hoping that using DVI would get me a cleaner picture on an LCD. Am I wrong about that? Thanks again.
 
Radeon 9500 - not 9550 - was the last official support of 3.3v 2x for AGP. Coincidentally, it's also the oldest Radeon that AMD (ATI) still supports in their drivers.

I do seem to remember though that a couple of later cards supported 3.3v AGP....you might want to do a litle research to find out which one(s) that was...I want to say either 9700 and/or 9800...not sure which, or which flavor.

Chuck
 
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