I recently acquired a used Geforce 3 Ti 200 AGP card, specifically a GeForce 3 Ti 200 MSI MS-8851 card. Now the card will be going into an Asrock motherboard which has a manual with a big caution not to use a 3.3 volt AGP card but only a 1.5 volt card in its slot. Its a x4 card, I think, but I can't find any info specific to the cards AGP voltage. Any help or direction appreciated. Asus P5N-E SLI Intel Dual Core E6750 2.66Ghz Asus EN8600GTS 256Meg 2 gig Crucial 800Mhz DDR2 WD 320 gig SATA 2 Lite On 20x20 DVD-RW CoolerMaster Mystique case w/500 watt PSU

If it's a 4X card, you *should* be OK. Look at the notches along the connector edge on the card: http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/...

If your card is a 4x then it should be either 0.8 or 1.5v. see this page: http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/... which shows you how to identify AGP card voltages etc. Wizard ICT. Microsoft Certified System Engineer. www.wizard-ict.co.uk

Looks like great minds think alike 'jam' :-) Wizard ICT. Microsoft Certified System Engineer. www.wizard-ict.co.uk

3.3v is used only for video cards capable of 2X AGP (or less, but there were very few 1X AGP cards). Some cards capable of 4X are actually capable of 2X/4X, even if specs for the card in an ad or elsewhere only mention 4X. The MSI specs for the card on their web site may state whether the card is 4X or 2X/4X - if only 4X is mentioned, the NVidia web site should be consulted - they will have the proper info about the particular NVidia chipset used on the card.

MSI WEBSITE: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/...

After searching around a lot I eventually I found the answer to whether you can use this GeForce 3 Ti 200 MSI MS-8851 card on this mboard - NO, you probably can't! Prolink PixelView GeForce3 Ti 200 "The Prolink PixelView GeForce3 Ti 200 card has an AGP x2/x4..." http://www.digit-life.com/articles/... NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 128 MBytes Video Cards Roundup "All cards have an AGP x2/x4 interface" http://www.digit-life.com/articles/... The only exception would be if your card is an oddball that has no 3.3v slot on the card edge, and that's extremely unlikely. Go here: http://searchna.ati.com/promosearch... See the pictures at the bottom of the first document....... ...... The MSI site just says 4X. It's common for ads and clone card manufacturers to omit listing lesser AGP speed ratings. Usually you can get the proper specs from the manufacturer of the video chipset's web site, but that isn't the case for this chipset. The Nvidia web site doesn't say anything about 4X or 2X/4X at all, here or in the pdf here: GeForce 3 and GeForce 3 Ti (Titanium) 200 info: http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce3... or anywhere else I searched on the site. If specs said it supported AGP 2.0 it's AGP 2x and AGP 4x. If specs said it supported AGP 3.0 (only) it's AGP 4x (or 8X). I found nothing about that. (The ATI web site always has the info about what lesser AGP a card ATI chipset supports) Says chipset released Oct 2001, 4X here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar... That 4X is murky info since at that time 4X cards could be either 2X/4X, or 4X only; most were the former. ...... What card to get? I know little about NVidia chipset cards, but I do know ATI Radeon 9600 and up chipsets have no 2X AGP support.