Graphics Card Incompatibilities On i845 & i850 Platforms!

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Here's some news from Xbit Labs. It turns out that any non-4x AGP card must not be installed in the new Intel motherboards, otherwise the voltage level will fry it. Well-known graphics maker, PowerColor, made a very menacing warning today: at any rate do not install any graphics cards, which have no support for AGP 4x, into i845 and i850 based mainboards. Otherwise, the AGP slot of your mainboard will be irretrievably damaged because of the too high voltage (AGP 2x 3.3V, AGP 4x – 1.5V). Here is a list of graphics cards, which should never be installed into i845 and i850 based mainboards (PowerColor stressed that this list might be incomplete, so be careful: Any cards on NVIDIA Vanta and Vanta LT; All cards on SiS 6326; Cards on Savage4 chips up to revision 3.0 (not including rev. 3.0); All Voodoo3 graphics cards. Source:XBitLabs Sent in by Louis Green