Looking to add AGP card

[Goody1959]

I have an old (1998) AMD K6-2 500mhz board that has an AGP version 1 slot on it. The system generally meets all of my needs, but, I would be interested in finding out how much better it would be if I put in a card instead of the onboard video.
Any sugestions on what would be a good card to put in here? Is there any other information that I should give?
Thanks for any help, C.

 

[Keitero]

well any video card should work fine, but for a system THAT long in the tooth, a geforce 2MX card will do you just fine.

 

[Goody1959]

Thanks for the reply. Considering that they are selling geforce4 cards now, a geforce2 ought to be pretty cheap.
thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Goody1959]

Originally posted by: Keitero
well any video card should work fine, but for a system THAT long in the tooth, a geforce 2MX card will do you just fine.

Having looked further I see that there are voltage differences between the AGP specs, 2/4/8. I see that a GeForce2 MX400 card is AGP 4X. Does that matter?

 

[Green Man]

Originally posted by: Goody1959

Having looked further I see that there are voltage differences between the AGP specs, 2/4/8. I see that a GeForce2 MX400 card is AGP 4X. Does that matter?

Yeah, you'll need an AGP 2x or an AGP 2x/4x
Like you noticed, voltages are different. Installing an incompatible card could damage the motherboard and/or video card

 

[Keitero]

the geforce2mx should work in a 2x slot (case in point - my geforce2 mx works in my Intel BX board just fine). 8x boards are more picky since they run at lower voltage than the 4x