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**bigjackusa** · 09-05-2002, 04:04 PM

Boy, what a trip trying to get hardware info on your box at Dell's site. As a Dell owner, maybe you can log in and get more info than I could find. I am guessing that you might have a mobo with Intel's awful 810 chipset. If so, you can't disable the onboard video in order to upgrade. If you can get more info on the mobo, maybe I could be more specific.

**walkngdude** · 09-05-2002, 11:14 PM

**bigjackusa** · 09-06-2002, 10:29 AM

Well, its not as bad as it might have been for you. The good news it that you have an AGP slot, so you can upgrade the video. The bad news is that the 2X slot won't support the latest and greatest in video cards. Your cpu is also a bottleneck for the fastest cards. One of the current budget cards will probably give you a significant boost though.Some of the now recently outdated cards might work well for a real bargin price. I have recently seen an Ati Radeon, 32mb DDR sell for $37us. I can't guess how any of the currently available cards will perform at AGP 2X, but most of what I have read suggests that the biggest performance boosts come from the card itself, rather than the AGP bus Capabilities. I would say to just shop for a deal, then verify on the manufacture's site that the part is fully compatabile with AGP 2X. Have fun gaming.

**Ehhe Yebeb** · 09-06-2002, 10:11 PM

You will be able to put a GeForce 3 or 4 in that system, but it will be running at about 1/4th of its capability which means you will be wasting money. To be honest, there is no point upgrading video in that system, and slotting an AGP video card into a dell/gateway or any other extremely low quality integrated board (basically any OEM board) often causes problems. If you really feel you need a video card though, i would recommend a GeForce 2 MX400, or ATI radeon 7200. Anything over that and you are basically just throwing your money away, because that CPU/motherboard/Ram combination is a serious bottelneck, you would only be getting %25 performance out of any decent video card.

**JealousMidget** · 09-07-2002, 07:52 PM

If I was in your shoes, with that setup, I would put the money towards a new motherboard. You wouldn't even need the latest and greatest to significantly increase your options. Good Luck!

**Bugman** · 09-13-2002, 08:44 PM

Hey there.

I own a Dell XPS T 450 (upgraded to a PIII 600) and I was recently wondering the same question. I wanted to put something in my system aside from the TNT2 I was using. So, I went looking around, and it was hard to find a new card that was compatable with my 2x AGP slot. (it has to deal with the voltage and whatnot). I ended up going with the Raedon 8500 from www.newegg.com I know that my comp cant use all its power, but I wanted something that wouldnt be a bottleneck to my system (basically anything over a GF2)

I am quite happy with my choice, minus some problems with the drivers from ATI and their 2D performance (they seem to be fine after the latest revision of them) You can find a cheaper version (maybe an LE) and get some good results with it. I like my 8500 quite a bit. If you have any ?'s about it, feel free to write.

~Bugman

**Andy72** · 09-23-2002, 02:28 PM

I have been using G4 Ti4200 on old BX board with agpx2 slot with great success.(P3-870Mhz ,G4Ti4200 64Mb gives 6592 points in 3D Mark 2001SE, Best score on its class regardless of agp speed!)

Also it seems that you can upgrade the cpu of your Dell as well.
Slot 1 processors are rare and expensive but you might be able to use slot 1 adapter and Celeron as well.( like http://www.powerleap.com/Products/iP3T.htm )
Only problem that I see is that your Dell's original PSU might not be powerfull enough.

Does the upgrading make sense? Thats for you to decide.

Andy

edit: link corrected

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