OLD AGP card question

[episodic]

Hey there, I've got an OLD sis agp card with 4 megs of onboard ram. That is all I'm certain about.

Would there be any harm in using it on a kt266 board? It is a good board and I don't wanna hurt it if there is a possibility or whatever.

 

[episodic]

In other words, is there some danger in this? Anyone?

 

[keeleysam]

No worries.

 

[Peter]

KT266 can do 3.3V AGP signalling, which is what this old card requires. Go ahead.

Is this an SiS 6326, 6326AGP or 6326DVD? Except for the "AGP" version, these chips even had hardware DVD acceleration! (The original 6326 is particularly interesting because it doesn't Macrovision-scramble its TV-out.)

 

[episodic]

It is a 6326

 

[kmmatney]

I have a 6326 in a computer at work, whose newer video card stopped working. The motherboard is the ECS K7S5A. The 6326 is utter crap, you can see folders scroll down in windows explorer - that's how slow it is. However it shouldn't harm anything. Decent drivers are hard to find - I had to go to www.driverguide.com. You may need to re-apply the VIA 4-in-1 chipset service pack to get the card working at a reasonable speed.

 

[Peter]

That happens when you let Windows use its own driver - it's software rendered, no acceleration at all. Use the driver from the SiS webpage (use the Windows 2000 driver for XP), then it'll be fast in 2D. The chip's 3D support is useless today of course - keep in mind that it's from 1997.

 

[episodic]

Worked like a charm. Fairly speedy 2d as well.

I downloaded the latest driver on the SIS site and loaded up the latest hyperion via drivers. . .

All is well. It is going to a relative that would play solitaire at the max. . .The computer had a radeon 9600 in it I did not wanna give up