Ti4400 on 440BX board?

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Kiwi

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Hi all,

I was looking for something to improve my gaming (still using a Canopus Spectra 2500 TnT card, if you can believe that! 8o) and from all that I have read, the MSI Ti4400 looks like an awesome card. Problem is, I don't have the budget to go and buy a whole new system... so I was wondering whether anyone here had any experience with using a Ti4400 card on a 440BX motherboard (AGP 1.0, ie 2x/1x). Would such a thing be possible, or is an AGP 2.0 slot (4x/2x/1x) *required*?

Any info would be greatly appreciated. My current setup is a P3-800 running on a Tyan Tsunami 1846S mobo. Think the Ti4400 would work? Lemme know!

Thanks much,
- Kiwi
 
hi

i dont think you will have any luck im sure it needs agpx2 which works at 1.5v as do most modern cards

 
Hi,

I don't see anything in the manual of my GF4Ti4600 that it wouldn't work in his system.....
I do know that some motherboard's do require a 1.5V compliant card in there....
But I can't recall anything about a card being plugged into an old AGP-slot.....but the box say it only requires a AGP4x capable slot.....
As most cards are auto-sensing for the voltage, it shouldn't be a problem....
But there is no way you can use such a card to it's full potention....
I would buy a GF2Ti200 and some more ram, cheaper and will give you way more speed....
 
The card can work, however due to the fact the card uses more power than was intended on loder boards and that most boards older than 6 months will have problems with the 128MB VGA RAM I would suggest a GF4 Ti4200 64MB or GF3 Ti200 64MB (not that I can promise they will work well on a BX, but they have a better chance).
 
I do it, but then again I gots one of these helps alot.......

I checked out the board and it looks to me like it should work, but a new mobo would do us both much better, I'm really only using half the card :D
 
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