--- Chris Arnold <carnold@electrichendrix.com> wrote:

OK, so i got a nVidia 5700 agp card but i have a dell optiplex 260 and i should have known that a full size video card would not work in this proprietary system (this system takes half-height cards) :( So, i can install a PCI video card and i found one with 128meg RAM (ATI Radeon X600SE) that is a PCI Express card. What i am trying to accomplish is, now with my current setup (intel i845 video builtin card) my system is slow. The browser loads slower and after a minimize, all apps load a black window then show the full app. Things are overall alot slower. So i want to correct this slowness and black window loading (my guess would be that the intel i845 video card does not have enough memory to do desktop effects). My question is, will this PCI Express card "speed" things up or will i need to get a agp card? Thanks for any feedback

Chris

What you install depends on which slot is on the motherboard. You can't install a PCI-E card in an AGP slot, and vice versa. I'd stay with nVidia, if possible, rather than ATI, as the drivers are less of a problem ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Chris Arnold wrote:

OK, so i got a nVidia 5700 agp card but i have a dell optiplex 260 and i should have known that a full size video card would not work in this proprietary system (this system takes half-height cards) :(

Just out of my curiosity: Please name a few non proprietary systems so
that I can buy one ;-)))



 My question is, will this PCI Express
> card "speed" things up or will i need to get a agp card? Thanks for any
> feedback

No, because there is no slot PCI Express Slot on your mainboard. You
either stay with your integrated Intel graphics or buy an additional
AGP-Card, that physically fits into your case.

You also theoretically may go for a PCI card (NOT PCI-E!!), but the
latter will very likely lower your graphics performance even further.

So AGP is what you need if more graaphics power is what you want.

regards
Eberhard

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