maebach
08-31-2013, 12:52 PM
My old desktop computer's ATi Radeon 9800 All in Wonder died and I'm looking for a cheap replacement. My motherboard is an Asus P4PE, processor is a Pentium 4 and I have 512mb of ram. I'm not too technically savvy so I dont know which to purchase or which one will work. The two alternatives I'm thinking of are:
ATi Radeon X850 256 mb OR the Asus Geforce 8440 128 mb.
My questions are as followed:
1. Which card is better?
2. My ATi 9800's card is an AGP and bother cards I'm profiling are also AGP cards. My ATi card has 3 'slots'/'keys'/'teeth' (I'm not sure how to describe it, but the part of the chip that plugs into the motherboard). So those my ATi has 3 seperate parts to its slot and from looking at pictures of the X850, even though it says it's AGP, for some reason it only has 2 sets of 'slots'. Will this card still work? The Geforce has 3 'slots' so Im comfortable with that.
Mine:
http://i40.tinypic.com/2nrf3f7.jpg
The X850:
http://i42.tinypic.com/bj7qcj.jpg
8440:
http://home.datacomm.ch/charlydog/Pics/Thumbs%20VGA/Asus%20AGP-V8440.jpg
Thanks for the help everyone!
ATi Radeon X850 256 mb OR the Asus Geforce 8440 128 mb.
My questions are as followed:
1. Which card is better?
2. My ATi 9800's card is an AGP and bother cards I'm profiling are also AGP cards. My ATi card has 3 'slots'/'keys'/'teeth' (I'm not sure how to describe it, but the part of the chip that plugs into the motherboard). So those my ATi has 3 seperate parts to its slot and from looking at pictures of the X850, even though it says it's AGP, for some reason it only has 2 sets of 'slots'. Will this card still work? The Geforce has 3 'slots' so Im comfortable with that.
Mine:
http://i40.tinypic.com/2nrf3f7.jpg
The X850:
http://i42.tinypic.com/bj7qcj.jpg
8440:
http://home.datacomm.ch/charlydog/Pics/Thumbs%20VGA/Asus%20AGP-V8440.jpg
Thanks for the help everyone!