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Old Video Card Compatibility

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Hello,

I'm building a server and as a result I don't care at all about the graphics subsystem. I have an old PCI card lying around and I intend to use it as the graphics adapter of an nforce 3 based system. Do you think I might run into compatibility issues? The card (while originally used in a Pentium MMX box) is currently happily residing in a Athlon Slot A based system.

I could, of course, get a VIA motherboard with intergrated graphics at about the same price as the nvidia board, but I somehow feel the nvidia one would be more stable (although I have never been let down by a VIA based solution)

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
GD
 
Yeah, I don't see any reason why it would not work. I have never read about PCI graphics cards not working in recent motherboards, and I have read about people using them for second or third monitors.

Going with a dedicated graphics card seems to be the better option. You already know it works due to testing it on the MMX box (meaning it has worked for some time now 😛), and going with dedicated graphics will not tie up any RAM.

EDIT: googling confirms that PCI graphics cards do work on NForce 3 motherboards.
 
I have seen old and slow video cards, in fast systems, cause odd issues, the most common being freezing up. Having them run a small screen size and lower colors, minimized most of the issues. In a couple of cases, we had to find newer cards.
 
Thanks for replying everyone,

The box will be running gentoo, and since it will be used as a server I only need a basic non-framebuffer console... Do you think this might raise issues as well?
 
What type of server?

If it is going to be a VNC server, then you would be using the video card.
If it is a FTP/SSH/HTTP/Samba/[insert favorite server] you should be fine.

 
nah, it won't be doing any graphics intensive task... just bind/dhcp/samba/iptables/wifiAP/ntp/ssh/cups/apache/ldap and perhaps, kerberos if I ever get it to work...

So I suppose it will be alright...
Thanks again,
George
 
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