- Oct 25, 2001
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My friend wants to upgrade the video on his HP Pavilion 8770c. (Athlon 833/100)
I poked around and found that it has a motherboard with an AGP slot (2.0 compliant, but
only 1X/2X)
So, to try and see what it could do, I took my rig (see below) and set the BIOS for 2X, turned off fast writes and cranked
down my speed to match his.
He wants to get a GF4 Ti4400 now and then upgrade his MoBo and CPU a bit later. (No, I don't know why he doesn't just wait until
he can do it all at once..... )
I have a 300Watt PSU for him to make up for the 185Watt POS that HP provides.
So my question is......... What is your opinion of this test? Is it relevant/representative of what he will see with his upgrade?
What else should I look into for him to see if the GF4 will run on his system?
I poked around and found that it has a motherboard with an AGP slot (2.0 compliant, but
only 1X/2X)
So, to try and see what it could do, I took my rig (see below) and set the BIOS for 2X, turned off fast writes and cranked
down my speed to match his.
He wants to get a GF4 Ti4400 now and then upgrade his MoBo and CPU a bit later. (No, I don't know why he doesn't just wait until
he can do it all at once..... )
I have a 300Watt PSU for him to make up for the 185Watt POS that HP provides.
So my question is......... What is your opinion of this test? Is it relevant/representative of what he will see with his upgrade?
What else should I look into for him to see if the GF4 will run on his system?
Some mobos that will enable a 1.5v vid card to fit in agp slot will still only support 3.3voltage and will fry your vid card.
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