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bluestreak
02-02-2003, 11:52 PM
hi all,

just wondering, will an AGP Pro 110 video card fit on a AGP 2 mother board?

the motherboard has 2 slots, and the video card has 3 slots...

hope that make sense, i have a 3 slot card now but only 2 slots are used, the the third slot has no connections to it...

thanks in advance
elvis
02-03-2003, 05:07 AM
depends on the card. read the manual and see whether or not it requires AGP Pro to function, vs being AGP Pro compliant.
GregHess
02-03-2003, 02:03 PM
If you could tell us the video card and the motherboard your trying to plug it into, it would help.

Ex. Wildcat 7110 on a Asus A7N8x Nforce2.
bluestreak
02-05-2003, 05:51 AM
the motherboard is pretty old - Asus P2B-D and the graphics card in question is also fairly old - Wildcat 4210

thanks elvis and GregHess for responding
GregHess
02-05-2003, 01:05 PM
The wildcat will not work on that motherboard.

AGP 2x is not AGP Pro. AGP Pro slots are usually designated as such, and have a yellow sticker on the AGP port, so that you don't accidently plug a non agp pro card into the wrong section of the slot.

http://www.supermicro.com/TECHSUPPORT/FAQs/AGP_Pro.htm
bluestreak
02-06-2003, 04:42 AM
i kind of had a feeling it wouldn't fit, since it physically looks different.

but i wasn't really sure since the 3dlabs website says that the 4210 is AGP Pro 110 and AGP version 2.0 compliant.

but thanks for the response Greg.

btw, just wondering, even though the 4210 is an older card,
what card would it be comparable to nowadays?
CgFX
02-06-2003, 05:41 AM
Originally posted by bluestreak
i kind of had a feeling it wouldn't fit, since it physically looks different.

but i wasn't really sure since the 3dlabs website says that the 4210 is AGP Pro 110 and AGP version 2.0 compliant.

but thanks for the response Greg.

btw, just wondering, even though the 4210 is an older card,
what card would it be comparable to nowadays?

AGP Pro is the slot/power standard and AGP 2.0 is the signal timing standard.

http://www.agpforum.org/
GregHess
02-06-2003, 05:53 PM
btw, just wondering, even though the 4210 is an older card,
what card would it be comparable to nowadays?

Depends on the app. In 3dsmax, sometimes the geforce2's will best a Wildcat 4110. So probably a quadro 750xl, or geforce4 would soundly smack it around (IN MAX). Move to other applications, and the story sometimes changes.
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