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willytel
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_ 		17. July 2009 @ 13:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I currently have an ASUS P4T-E mother board with a NVidia 4600Ti video AGP card. I am looking to upgrade the video card to support Windows 7 and am wondering which card to buy. I am not sure that the AGP slot can handle an 8x card or not (documentation was not that clear). Can anyone help me get going in the right direction and not purchase the wrong type of card?

Thanks.

Bill.
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dailun
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_ 		17. July 2009 @ 14:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
First of all, this is an 7+ year old motherboard. Are you sure that you want to throw money "down a smoking hole" in upgrading this?

You should be starting here.

http://www.unitycorp.co.jp/support/downl...478/p4t_e_e.pdf

This is a P4 Rambus motherboard that only supports up to AGP 4x.

Pretty much a dead end.
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ddp
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_ 		17. July 2009 @ 14:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
manual says 4x(1.5v) so can't handle 8x agp. the board is not even vista supported & you want to run win7 on it! get a new pc as you are using rambus memory & 2ghz socket 478 cpu. manual link.
http://dlcdnas.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/p4t-e/p4te-101.pdf
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dailun
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_ 		17. July 2009 @ 14:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@ddp, Good catch on the Win 7

@willytel

"Can anyone help me get going in the right direction "

The right direction is to the computer store for a new PC.
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jony218
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_ 		17. July 2009 @ 20:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you do decide to get a agp card, make sure you get one that has shader 3.0. Most of the new games require that on a video card. I've ran into a couple of games (flatout3 and paradise city) that required shader 3.0.

But they are correct, you do need at least a dualcore to get decent performance from windows 7. I had a semprom 2800 and also amd 3000 single core (with a agp ati 9600 xt) that I try to run windows 7 and it ran quite slow.
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