Need Help choosing AGP Video card

[monkeyfacedave]

I have an Asus P2b motherboard and have just upgraded to PIII600. My AGP slot is just regular AGP (not 2x or 4x).

Does this mean that I can't use a card like the 32m Radeon DDR AGP (2x,4x) or should I use a PCI version?

What is the best card at a reasonable price that I should use?

Please help!!!!!!


Thanks

 

[pillage2001]

They are all backwards compatible and performance over 1X,2X and 4X are not noticeable.

 

[Yoshi]

Yep, all the AGP cards are backwards compatible. And don't sweat it, if you are limited to AGP 1X you are not missing anything!! AGP texturing is a joke and probably will never be able to compete with storing texture data in local video RAM.

I'm not going to preach which card you should get since I don't have all of them myself to compare. Over time I have had a Voodoo2 12Mb, Voodoo3 3000, Creative TNT2 Ultra, and currently a Creative GeForce DDR. If I were going to get a new card today and was looking at a budget price I would look at the Creative Labs GeForceMX DDR. It probably has respectable gaming and image quality performance. Or I would look into the Matrox G450. It probably does not perform as well as the MX in games but the image quality, 2D and 3D, is probably vastly superior, especially at resolutions of 1024x768 and above.

You will have to do your own research and make your own decision. These are simply the cards I would consider on a budget. You could look into a Radeon, I understand there are different versions but I'm not up on any of them. If I was I would be tempted to buy. Trying to keep the GF DDR in the system a while.

 

[monkeyfacedave]

Thanks for the advice. That clears up alot for me. I'm thinking of getting the voodoo5 because of the price drop!

 

[Godsend1]

I also have an ASUS P2b. I bought a Hercules Geforce2 MX. Wouldn't work. It would boot into windows with the standard vga detect the card install drivers and upon reboot it would hang. Guillemot says it will not work with P2B boards. I took it back and got a Radeon 32 DDR. Works great!

 

[Tates]

V5 5500....Now that the price has plummetted from $299 to the $150 to $170 range, you'll get a very good card that is more compatible that the rest. Glide, D3D, OpenGl, all run fine on this card. A smart buy at the moment.

 

[Hawk]

I think your motherboard has 2x AGP. Anyway, Voodoo 5 for around 150 is good, or a Radeon if you can still find it.