GF3 TI 200 in a Dell Dimension 4100

[BenGalf]

Hello,

1st of all i'd like to say this is my 1st post here on Anandtech .. You guyz came in highly recommended by friends of mine.. Anyways.. enough pleasantries..

My question is .. I presently have a Dell Dimension 4100 which is a P3 933 with 512Mb's of Ram and a GF2 GTS 64DDR card. I want to switch the video card and give this "old gf2" to my daugther's machine .. AND buy myself the VisionTek GF 3 TI 200. Now if it wouldn't have been for my friends .. i would have just gotten to the store and bought the darn thing and slap it in BUT .. i was kindly reminded that although it SHOULD work i COULD have a surprise and have it NOT work with this system.

The main reasons i was given are that i; needed to have a "newer mobo" version AND/OR needed to be able to support the power requirements of the GF3 card.

Do you guyz have any kind of scoop on this ?

Thanks in advance gentlemen..

 

[oldfart]

Welcome to Anandtech!!

Yes, it will work.

 

[Wolfsraider]

welcome BenGalf to anandtech also,



<< Yes, it will work. >>



they are probably refering to the voltage specs of the new motherboards being 1.5(1.5 volts = 4xagp) volts an older cards being 3.3 volts which in this case is not the case as the new cards are backwards compatible


hope this helps

 

[cockeyed]

I don't think you would have any problem running a VT GF3 Ti200. I researched the Dell 4100 for some friends about a year ago and found that it uses a motherboard made by intel, although I don't recall the model name. From what I found, Dell uses all high quality components in their machines. I run a VT GF3 Ti200 on my Soyo 440BX mobo with a P3-700 and it runs fine. Since you already run a GF2, in my opinion, you won't have a problem. It is your decision to make, but personally, I would not be worried about it.