Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:00:24 -0600 From: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> To: "dfolkins" <dfolkins@comcast.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade Computer - old vidio card Message-ID: <002801c260ae$10ed2c30$2afececd@TCOOPER> References: <001101c25fee$36984840$2afececd@TCOOPER> <000601c2604a$bdd5b160$0a00a8c0@groovy3xp>
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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" <dfolkins@comcast.net> To: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:09 PM Subject: Re: Upgrade Computer - old vidio card > From: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> > 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
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