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Hello

I have an old computer which I am going to use to play some games for my nephew.

The onboard vga causes trouble to all (!) the games i've installed, its a SIS 630/730 i think with 64mb memory.

The system has the AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.67 Ghz processor, I think its ok for basic gaming (?).

I have installed Microsoft Flight Simulator X and says that the game is not working with my video card, the onboard one.
You will tell me that the system is pure for this heavy program, but the lowest system configuration i can see printer on the dvd
is much more worse than mine. Need for Speed Carbon too, it runs then it vanishes from the screen after 3 seconds.

How to detect what AGP card i must buy? The motherboard has only the number 3209A568 printed on it, no "AGP 8x" or other sign for me to understand what should i get.

The board has that brown slot before the pci's, but no any nick in the middle (usually when a nick turns on the left side of the slot is AGP 2x i think, and when it turns on the right side is AGP 8x).

Any help please?

Go grab CPUz here, and run it on your jetway machine. On the mainboard tab of the program it should tell you what the AGP speed is.

If I recall correctly, even 8x AGP cards should be capable of running at slower AGP link speeds though, so it should matter less what AGP slot you actually have.

Dan

Thanks, i am posting also the picture of the agp slot i have in any case.

you didnt say what you budget was but take a look here these cards would do you just fine. some AGP 3650 or 3850 ATI cards
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... name=512MB

Have anyone seen an AGP slot like mine (the one i am posting in my previous post) ?

It does not have a nick in the middle of it to identify itself.

I wonder if it is some memory cache slot, but it has that clip on the right side that an AGP card locks in place.

Personally I dont know any motherboard that offers an onboard AGP card, without having the option to change it with an external one.

Well I've looked around and the ones without notches are called universal AGP slots, so can accept all most types of AGP card. There were a couple of different variants on even the universal slot

What's CPUz telling you about the AGP?

Dan

I just run the cpuz utility and the result sounds a bit bad.....

It gives me "AGP Version 2.0 - Transfer rate 4x, Maximum speed 4x".

Is this really bad for games like NFS or Flight Simulator X?

Can I still find in the market 4x agp cards, and if I do it will be much better
at least from the onboard card ?

smack323 wrote:you didnt say what you budget was but take a look here these cards would do you just fine. some AGP 3650 or 3850 ATI cards
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... name=512MB

again take a look at these.. they should work fine for you.. a card that is AGP 8X will work at 4X speeds. And yes one of these cards will be much better than your onboard video.

Flight Simulator X looks like it will play fine- be sure you get the service pack 1 that was released to improve performance.. NFS might have some problems(choppy)- you should be able to download a demo to see if it works.

Thanks smack & DMB.