good ol' FIC VA 503+ : did anyone ever get a more modern vid card then a v3/tnt with more then 32mb to run on it?

[acidvoodoo]

i have this in an old rig and i want to get a new vid card that will have decent XP drivers that are stable. i remember when i got the board a few years i read on the FIC website FAQ that it reccomended not to put a card in with mroe the 16mb memory or something like that. was this ever true and/or fixed by a BIOS update? does this only apply to the AGP slot or is it with PCI cards also?

 

[Peter]

AGP cards have had ever rising power demand - and on the change from AGP specification 1.0 to 2.0, the power budget was raised significantly. Hence, the older the mainboard, the less likely it is to run high performance cards. Rule of thumb, anything with no fan on has a chance of working in an old AGP 1.0 board - SiS 315, Radeon 7000 and 7500LE, and others I'm unaware of. (Note that specification revisions 1.0, 2.0 are nothing to do with AGP transfer modes 1x, 2x, 4x.)

The power budget for PCI slots hasn't been changed for ages, so you'd be pretty safe there. (This is also the prime reason why there are practically no high performance PCI graphics cards.)

regards, Peter

 

[acidvoodoo]

a bump

 

[winr]

Hi, winr here.
I ran an MSI MX2 32 mb AGP video card on my 503+ and it worked fine.
Not an MX 200 or MX400, an original MX2.
It might pull less juice than some of the older AGP cards.
It worked in a Gigabyte GA5AX that wouldnt run a VIPER II.
Also it may be the lucck of the draw.
Regards.
winr

 

[Herkulese]

The original GForce 2 MX cards seem to run fine on the old Super 7 boards.

I have seen them run well on the following:
DFI - K6BV3+ (MVP3) with Std K6III 450 @ 450
TYAN - S1590S (MVP3) with K62+ 450 @ 550
ASUS - P5A (ALI) with K62+ 450 @ 550

From everytning that I have read, the GForce 2 MX is also about all that these boards and the CPU's that go on them can really push.