Re: Graphics card help

Voivod ha scritto:
On Thu, 22 May 2008 12:29:41 +0200, erpy <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Voivod ha scritto:
On Thu, 22 May 2008 03:29:35 +0200, erpy <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Paul Burdett ha scritto:
My computer (desktop) has an ASUS P4P800-MX motherboard with on board graphics (Intel 82865G graphics controller). The motherboard has a total of three 32 bit PCI 2.2 expansion slots which (according to my manual) support bus master PCI cards like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum throughput (whatever that means!)
In addition, the same situation with the software exists on my one year old Toshiba Satellite laptop! which has Mobile 945GM Express chipset family.


Unfortunately it looks like your motherboard does not even provide an AGP slot - not to mention that any graphic card today is PCI-Express (which is not the same as "PCI").
So, forget about getting a graphic card of any kind for that motherboard.
Yeah! Because there's NO where in the world where you can get an older
PCI graphics card. NOWHERE! Not anywhere....

Psst... TigerDirect lists THIRTY TWO legacy PCI cards.

Yeah right, with OpenGL 1.5 in their drivers.... and 256 Mb VRam.... :)))
Your "legacy PCI cards" would not run the plugin.... full stop.

128 MB (9)
256 MB or more (11)

There, that's 20 cards that at least meet the minimum specs. I guarantee
you that at least one's going to support OpenGL 1.5. *** your "full
stop", you're as ignorant as the idiot who just said "forget about
getting a graphic card of any kind for that motherboard" and the other
idiot who though OpenGL was a BRAND of graphics card.


Kid, "years-old" PCI cards can't run *that plugin*...as much as integrated graphics can't run today's games.
If there's an ignorant that's you. That MB comes with Intel integrated 3D graphics, and its drivers already support OpenGL. Most probably the plugin won't run not because of OGL, but because it also requires pixel shaders capabilities, which older (and many newer) integrated graphics lack.

If that MB supported at least an AGP bus, he could buy a GeForceFX 5200 - out of production since years - somewhere for 10 bucks.

Now go get an education.