[Wolves] AGP cards

[baza]

Tim Humpherson wrote:

>That's a shame, Baza.
>
>But then, if your budget allows you to buy a new motherboard, you
>could do well as there are quite a lot of motherboards from around £30
>upwards.
>
>Basically, you don't need whizz-bang oomph motherboard costing £200=
>(dual processor or the like).....  any decent motherboard, even as
>recent as 2004 models would cost around £30 ish.
>
>Then again, you might need a new type of memory cards.  If yours is
>DDR, that's alright.
>
>Out of curiosity, why would you want an AGP card?  You into GAMING? Or
>simply liked pretty graphics?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tim
>
>
>
>On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:17:00 +0000, Peter Evans <zen8486 at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 00:35, baza wrote:
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>>>Does anyone know if the mainboard in the Dell Dimension 2400 is AGP
>>>compatible?
>>>      
>>>
>>No it isn't.  There is no AGP slot fitted to the Intel 845GV chipset boards on
>>which this machine is based.
>>
>>Details courtesy of:
>>
>>http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_2400?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~tab=specstab#tabtop
>>and
>>http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/845GV/
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>--
>>Regards,
>>
>>Pete Evans
>>
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I'm into flight sims, and a nice fast graphics card would let me run 
them at, 'full bells and whistles' speed.

baza