Question for you older guys

[Viper27]

I'm getting a new rig soon, but (and some of you may have had this same problem) I don't have enough money to get everything. I can get it all but the graphics card. I will be getting a DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR mobo. Will this run my old nVidia Riva TNT2 GPU? It's from a gateway from about 1999-2000. Feel free to laugh if you must, but when I can afford it I'll get 2x eVga 7800 GTX KO in SLI. Thanks.

 

[Anubis]

is the TNT2 a PCI or AGP card?

 

[Skyhanger]

i doubt it. That mobo is designed to run w/ PCI-E GPUs. PCI-E just cam out late last year/early this year.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

My riva TNT2 was an AGP part. If yours is AGP it wouldn't work.

 

[Viper27]

The card is PCI, I'll just be using it for a couple weeks until I can get the 7800.

 

[Viper27]

crud, nevermind, it's AGP, I'm not very good with the differences between the two.
Does the DFI mobo come with an integrated GPU or am I stuck until I get the 7800?

 

[w00t]

just get an x300 pci-e and run that for the time being.

 

[Viper27]

I would, but I could just wait and use that money for the 7800, if newegg/zipzoomfly ever gets them back in stock.

 

[Jiggz]

Originally posted by: Viper27
I would, but I could just wait and use that money for the 7800, if newegg/zipzoomfly ever gets them back in stock.

Good. As long as you stand using the old system until you can acquire the new video card.

 

[Viper27]

Actually, the capacitors on the mobo of the old system are ready to fail soon, so I'm typing this on my Dell laptop. Using this for gaming/etc doesn't work well, WMP won't play WMV files, and CS:S doesn't work well at 8FPS! No that's not a typo I really played CSS at eight FPS for a month!

 

[Bozo Galora]

no agp on a NF4 Ultra

just buy an old SIS PCI card for $20 - look in Pricewatch.com, or ebay, or for sale on AT

Set boot to vga first in bios

I use the pci card all the time for troubleshooting

Edit:
http://www.acortech.com/.sc/ms/dd/11127...DR%20PCI%20Video%20Card%20Retail%20Box