ABIT MOTHERBOARD

[mph1]

Hi,Can anyone Help, I have an ABIT AT7-MAX2 Motherboard. Can i use a PALIT GeFORCE 6600 PCI EXPRESS GRAPHICS CARD. My current Graphics card is a Ge FORCE FX 5200. Regards Mike H.

[RicheemxX]

According to the Abit site and mobo specs no you can't. You only have AGP or PCI slots for expansion. Therefore a pci-e card simply won't fit anywhere. Depending on your budget and intended use you can still find a few decent AGP cards but you may want to give some serious reconsideration to dumping too much money into a dead end project.

[mph1]

Thanks for your help, i will take your advice. Regards MPH1.

[ShyguyXPC]

agreed with rich. if you do decide to find an AGP card, there are AGP versions of the 6600 series cards.

7600 and 7800/7900 Series would be better. But Nvidia Stopped making AGP cards after the 7000 series, there are no 8 series AGP, only PCIE and PCI.

for more recent cards, I'd look for a Radeon 3850 or Radeon 4650/4670 in AGP. Their about as powerful as your going to get for AGP. After the 4000 series Radeons, ATI/AMD also dropped AGP.

But I'd also suggest cutting your losses, and looking at upgrading to a newer Platform. and Wouldn't spend anymore than $50-75 on a new video card for the current system.

[ShyguyXPC]

Let me rephrase that, cutting your losses, if the current system isn't meeting your demands, not just the video card needs (If CPU isn't powerful enough, etc)...

If your system is still plenty for what you do, and the video card, you just need something more powerful, but not mid range to top end performance of todays cards Then you should still be fine. (the best AGP cards out right now, Radeon 4650 and 4670, are currently, performance wise, entry level budget performance compared to current cards). Basically for $50-$60 or so these days, you can grab a PCI Express card thats as good if not better than the 4650/4670.


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AGP cards in similar performance range:

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Radeon 3650, though not as powerful as the 4600's would still be a nice AGP option: PowerColor AG3650 512MD2-V3 Graphics Card Radeon HD3650 512MB 64-bit DDR2 AGP 8X Video Card HDCP Ready 600MHz Clock-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com

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Anything more powerful than these cards anyways, would be a bottleneck on your current system, or more precisely, the CPU and Mobo/subsystems (RAM and FSB), would actually bottleneck the cards performance. Severely.

In which case anything above a 4600 series would really need a new system anyways.

even the 4600's might be bottlenecked a bit by your current system, but not as much as say some of the higher end cards in the Radeon 4000 series, Geforce 8 or newer, or Radeon 5000/6000 series.