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PCI video card
Name: Brian White Date: April 5, 2002 at 11:40:38 Pacific
Comment:
I just got a Dell Optiflex GX1(refurbished)PII 450, it has a integrated AGP video adapter. Can I install a PCI video card without any problems, and will video quality be suffecient to play games like quake2.
Name: Steve Date: April 5, 2002 at 12:40:33 Pacific
Reply:
You have a built in 2x ATI rage 4meg apg card. (it is upgradable to 8meg according to Dell) You probably can install a pci video card (and disable the onboard one), but I don't think you would gain much. You PCI bus is running at 33Mhz, your AGP bus runs at 200 Mhz.....and it is the only device on the bus. Take a look at this article from Asus about agp (ignore what it says about the 66Mhz bus, yours is 100 Mhz)
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