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Started by Sir Golitech, 27 October 2004, 00:28:52

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Sir Golitech

27 October 2004, 00:28:52
Can I have both a PCI and AGP video card hooked up at the same time?

But choose which one to use in the BIOS of course, right?

Forgetfully yours
Goli
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TM30

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27 October 2004, 00:45:58
yes you can hook up both but in bios you only can choose which should initialize first... so in windows both cards will be active, you have to deactivate that one you wont need!
 

Voodoo5

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27 October 2004, 00:52:37
@Sir Golitech,

QuoteBut choose which one to use in the BIOS of course, right?

Correct, bit of a hassle changing your monitor cable and bios setting every time you decide to switch between cards, but it is possible.
 

Sir Golitech

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27 October 2004, 03:02:26
Cheers guys.

On a side note, Which do you think would perform better a Voodoo 5 5500 64MB PCI or a NVidia MX400 64MB AGP?
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AMD64 3200 Venice 2GHz OC'd 2.7 w/ XP-120 / PCMark02: 8902
OCZ 2X512MB Platinum PC3200 REV.2 / PCMark02: 12072
Sapphire 9800 256MB w/ Artic Silencer & Copper sinks / 3DMark01: 16390
WD 7200 80GB/8MB cache--OCZ Powerstream 520W--ABIT AV8--XP Pro (SP2)--DX9.0c

TM30

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27 October 2004, 10:10:33
they are very close together but in most newer games that Geforce 2MX performs slightly better. In older games like UT or Quake3 the Voodoo 5 is better...
 
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