ASUS P5S800-VM AGP voltages?

[UltimateRacer]

I want to get the ASUS P5S800-VM motherboard but the specs say that it only supports 1.5 volt AGP cards. I have an existing Visiontek Xtasy 6964 Geforce T1-500 Video card that I want to put in this motherboard. This video card is a 3.3 volt AGP card I think but I'm not sure, however I have searched the Net far and wide and there doesn't seem to be much information on what voltages certain models of video cards require and a lot of motherboards don't state which voltage its AGP slot supports. My question is, is this Asus motherboard backward compatible with 3.3v AGP cards since it claims to be 1.5v only? Also is my video card 3.3v or not? I saw on some website that 1x,2x and 4x AGP cards were mostly 3.3v and AGP 8x cards are 1.5v. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I really want this motherboard.

My current system:

Asus P3C-E
P-III 866Mhz Slot 1
Samsung 512 MB RDRAM (256 x 2)
Visiontek Xtasy Geforce T1-500 64 MB AGP card
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Platinum
Linksys 2.4Ghz Wireless w/ Speedbooster
Generic ATA-133 PCI Host Adapter
Maxtor 80 GB DMA HD
Maxtor 250 GB Ultra ATA-133 HD

Haven't upgraded core components since 2002

System I want to build/can afford to build

ASUS P5S800-VM Motherboard
Corsair 1GB DDR (512x2)
P-IV 3.2 GHz 540J Prescott w/HT

all 3 for under $360!!!!!!

Import rest of components from current computer

 

[NotquiteanooB]

I definitely wouldn't try a 3.3 v card in a AGP slot that is 1.5v. My P5P800 is able to Take 4X & 8X AGP; but the voltages are 1.5V for 4X and 0.8V for the 8X, I believe. I do know there is no 3.3v in the AGP slot only the 2 voltages ; 1.5 & 0.8. As for your Vtek card I don't know if it's 3.3 or 1.5 v. I suppose you tried Google for the card data?

 

[NotquiteanooB]

The Xtasy Ti-500 is not even shown in the Visiontek archives. Time to bite the bullet and upgrade to a newer AGP card.