Proven videocard for a Asus P2BD

[derekb77]

Hi im looking for a videocard that will work with an Asus P2BD motherboard. any suggestions?

 

[AndyHui]

Any current AGP card will work fine for the ASUS P2B-D. Nothing special about the board....just a dual BX board. You should have no problems with something like a GeForce 2 MX or something like that, depending on what you want to spend or what you want to do with the system.

 

[CraigRT]

Andy said it. Anything should work OK. It all depends on what you are doing with it. No games at all? 8MB ATI graphics card is just fine. light gaming? TNT2 or V3, getting more into hardcore gaming GF2 MX and up.. it just all depends, but there should be no problems with any of those on that mobo.

 

[derekb77]

will that ATI Radeon in the hot deals forum work well? thanks for all the help.

 

[networkman]

I had a Asus P2B-D(dual 450s) in one of my Win2K servers for a while.. I had no problems using a Diamond Viper 770 32meg AGP card.

 

[AndyHui]

Perhaps you could tell us why you think it wouldn't work. That way we can tell you whether or not that particular issue might affect you.

There should be no problem with the ATi Radeon.

 

[derekb77]

well the main issue is with the AGP. the Radeon Le card specs say that a 2x and 4x capable motherboard will work with the card but when i look at the P2BD specs i cant find that its AGP slot is a 2x or 4x AGP. im not too sure how the AGP works but is there a 1x AGP? and will it work with the newer AGP cards effectively? also i will be running windows 2000 and i know not all videocards run well with windows 2000.

 

[todays]

I have a P2B-F that is 1x and 2x AGP only. Limited by the chipset. I have a TNT2 in it and it works great. Any 4x card will work, just only at 2x.

 

[AndyHui]

All AGP cards are backwards compatible. An AGP4X card will operate in an AGP2X or AGP1X slot without any problems whatsoever. Conversely, any slower speed AGP card will operate in an AGP4X/AGP Pro slot.

The ASUS P2B-D's AGP slot is the standard 2X slot that comes with all 440BX chipsets.

 

[derekb77]

thanks for clearing it up for me.