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Date:	Fri, 21 May 2004 14:52:39 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: AGP card question

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At the present time, I am still using (in the desktop system) an older
ASUS main board, which has a 2X AGP slot in it, with a Matrox G400
card that has 32mb. on board. From reading some newsgroup messages
via the Deja search -- assuming the posters were correct, and that I
understood them -- I gather that there are some latter day video cards
that can be backwards-compatible with the older slot. Care must be
taken to be sure that the voltages are compatible as well, less sizzle
& smoke ensue. Obviously, a 2X slot is never going to perform at
better than 2X. OTOH, one poster said, a great deal of the video
bandwidth stuff happens within the card itself. So, if the
compatibility angle is covered, I guess the question becomes, 'How
much of a video performance boost -- if any -- might be realized from
a Radeon or GeForce type card that has four times the onboard memory
of my older Matrox card ? ' I think Jerry said that prices on some of
these 128 meg. Radeon cards had fallen to around the $75. level.

Also, does the above have any bearing re OS/2 | eCS ?

Jordan

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