Ok for starter, I wanted to get myself a Asus v7700 GTS Deluxe card and while I was looking things up
on the Internet the ASUS page noted this:
Warning: Because GeForce2 GTSTM DDR GPU consumes a lot of power, as a result, do not use AGP-V7700 Deluxe with the mainboard which AGP power is provided by linear regulator.
That's cool.. but how do I know if my AGP power is provided by a linea regulator or not? I got a ASUS P2B rev 1.04.
I somewhere saw about the Nvidia TNT chipset also had the same warning? my TNT-1 board runs just fine on my system even when I overload it like hell...
Second, my 'old' P2B only supports AGP 2x at top and I 'guess' this v1.0 .. since the newer AGP boards always talk about v2.0 etc'.. and I don't think I got v2.0 because this board doesn't support AGP 4x.
Will the GeForce GTS still work on my board?
I looked up on the difrence with 2x and 4x AGP and out of results the say that systems of today don't actually use AGP 4x.. meaning that putting the system/video card on 2x AGP would provide the same amount of FPS etc' ; is this also still true of the GeForce 2 GTS and what about the GeForce 3? Since the push the speeds up bigtime with faster memory etc'.
I currently got a Asus P2B, Celeron 800 @ 1066 ... is this enough to get the GeForce 2 GTS going or would a faster cpu really make a HUGE difrence meaning that my CPU limits the GTS card?
I hope someone can answer all these questions ^_^
TiA
on the Internet the ASUS page noted this:
Warning: Because GeForce2 GTSTM DDR GPU consumes a lot of power, as a result, do not use AGP-V7700 Deluxe with the mainboard which AGP power is provided by linear regulator.
That's cool.. but how do I know if my AGP power is provided by a linea regulator or not? I got a ASUS P2B rev 1.04.
I somewhere saw about the Nvidia TNT chipset also had the same warning? my TNT-1 board runs just fine on my system even when I overload it like hell...
Second, my 'old' P2B only supports AGP 2x at top and I 'guess' this v1.0 .. since the newer AGP boards always talk about v2.0 etc'.. and I don't think I got v2.0 because this board doesn't support AGP 4x.
Will the GeForce GTS still work on my board?
I looked up on the difrence with 2x and 4x AGP and out of results the say that systems of today don't actually use AGP 4x.. meaning that putting the system/video card on 2x AGP would provide the same amount of FPS etc' ; is this also still true of the GeForce 2 GTS and what about the GeForce 3? Since the push the speeds up bigtime with faster memory etc'.
I currently got a Asus P2B, Celeron 800 @ 1066 ... is this enough to get the GeForce 2 GTS going or would a faster cpu really make a HUGE difrence meaning that my CPU limits the GTS card?
I hope someone can answer all these questions ^_^
TiA