3D Now!

[vleespet]

I'm not sure about this, but try selecting device #2 in the Glide64 config. Sometimes d3d-programs see 3dnow as a d3d device.

 

[Matata]

My motherboard is 4X AGP slot but the guy who sells the card says it works on AGP 8X, 4x and 2X, is that possible or he´s wrong?
Is it a good card?

 

[Kaoss626]

Matata.... just fine

the difference is AGP cards originally ran on 5 volt power. AGP 2 standard is 3 volt power. If you'r board supports AGPx2 and x4 you can more than adequately rest asured that it _will_ work.

as for AGPx8 it is fully reverse compatable except for a 5 volt agp slot. _No_ 3 volt AGP card will be compatable with a 5 volt slot. You can put a AGPx8 card in a 3 volt AGPx2 slot just fine it just won't utilize the extra bandwith of AGPx8. You can also put a AGPx2 card in a AGPx8 slot (provided they are both 3 volt). Again it's limited by the slower of the two.

 

[Matata]

Ok, thanks for clearing that out but I found a GeForce FX5200 128MB DDR TV really really REALLY cheap ($100). This one should work too shouldn´t it???

 

[Matata]

oh and by the way $100 = U$S 33

 

[Kaoss626]

thats even better than a Geforce4MX

 

[Matata]

But it´s compatible with my motherboard isn´t it??

 

[Kaoss626]

cut and pasted straight from the motherboard manual

Key Features
The key features of this mainboard include:

Socket-462 Processor Support
¨ Supports AMD Athlon/Duron processors
¨ Supports 200 MHz Front-Side Bus

Processors are automatically configured using firmware and a synchronous Host/DRAM Clock Scheme.

Memory Support
¨ Two DIMM slots for 168-pin SDRAM memory modules
¨ Support for 100/133 MHz memory bus
¨ Maximum installed memory is 2 x 512MB = 1GB

Expansion Slots
¨ One AMR slot for a special audio/modem riser card
¨ One optional AGP4X slot for AGP 2.0-compliant interface
¨ Two 32-bit PCI slots for PCI 2.2-compliant bus interface.

Onboard IDE channels
¨ Primary and Secondary PCI IDE channels
¨ Support for PIO (programmable input/output) modes
¨ Support for Multiword DMA modes
¨ Support for Bus Mastering and Ultra DMA 33/66/100 modes

Power Supply and Power Management
¨ ATX power supply connector
¨ ACPI and previous PMU support, suspend switch, keyboard power on/off
¨ Supports Wake on Modem, Wake on LAN and Wake on Alarm

!One optional AGP4X slot for AGP 2.0-compliant interface!

I'm certain any geforce2 or later (ie geforce4 or geforceFX) will work

to the best of my knowledge, anything AGPx2 is inherently AGP v2.0 and this board being AGPx4 apears to be no exception

 

[Matata]

Great, so it´s decided I´ll get this card. Thanks all of you for your big help. I´ll tell how are the things going when I get it.

 

[Eagle]

Great, so it´s decided I´ll get this card. Thanks all of you for your big help. I´ll tell how are the things going when I get it.

Yeah thats not a bad price either, its about $50 US here.

 

[Matata]

I can´t belive this. The guy that was going to sell me the card cancelled, crap! I´m never going to get another one at such a good price!

 

[Eagle]

I can´t belive this. The guy that was going to sell me the card cancelled, crap! I´m never going to get another one at such a good price!

They arent that expensive really. Like I said, 50-60 US doallars.

 

[Matata]

nope here in Argentina they are 90 US Dollars.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

3D Now!, like SSE is an internal component of Athlon processors, thus any Athlon processor based system includes 3D Now!.