From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 19: 9:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC91437B401 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809B843E4A for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfolkins@comcast.net) Disposition-notification-to: dfolkins@comcast.net Received: from groovy3xp (pcp01731796pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net [68.83.131.193]) by mtaout04.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with SMTP id <0H2P00HZESNW6G@mtaout04.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:09:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:09:24 -0400 From: dfolkins Subject: Re: Upgrade Computer - old vidio card To: Grant Cooper , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <000601c2604a$bdd5b160$0a00a8c0@groovy3xp> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <001101c25fee$36984840$2afececd@TCOOPER> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Grant Cooper" To: Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:06 AM Subject: Upgrade Computer - old vidio card > Case - 147 with 350W Power Supply > Motherboard -AUS A7V266-E-AA > CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1800+ > Memory - 256 MB DDR PC2100 Ram > > I have an old Pent 300 monitor card. > > Should I expect any problems or do monitor factory made computers have > specific cards for mother boards? I have never replaced one and this one is > about 3.5 years old. I am also paying 500 CND for the upgrade. > video cards are not made specifically for motherboards, so you should not have problems sticking the old video card into the new board. of course, should you decide to do anything graphics-intensive on that computer, you might experience some slowness, as a 3.5 year old video card probably is not all that powerful. but it will _work_, if that's what you are asking. and by the way, how is this related to freebsd? :) -- dfolkins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message