From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 6:56:52 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 73A4637B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.nucleus.com (mail1.nucleus.com [207.34.101.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D8543E4A for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grant.cooper@nucleus.com) Received: from TCOOPER (unverified [205.206.254.42]) by mail.nucleus.com (Vircom SMTPRS 1.4.232) with SMTP id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:56:49 -0600 Message-ID: <002801c260ae$10ed2c30$2afececd@TCOOPER> From: "Grant Cooper" To: "dfolkins" , References: <001101c25fee$36984840$2afececd@TCOOPER> <000601c2604a$bdd5b160$0a00a8c0@groovy3xp> Subject: Re: Upgrade Computer - old vidio card Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:00:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 Just curious. Never seen a question like this. And after buying a LT win moden (waste of money) I just wanted to ask. Its either this or buy a complete package. ----- Original Message ----- From: "dfolkins" To: "Grant Cooper" ; Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:09 PM Subject: Re: Upgrade Computer - old vidio card > 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