The "highest" videos crads VA503+'s can use?

Well, it's not worth spending a lot of money on a TI4200 or Radeon 9700 or
anything like that. You just move the bottleneck to the CPU/motherboard.
Most of the issues with earlier AGP boards were due to excessive current. I
used a 32MB TNT2 Ultra in my 503+ with no problems, but didn't try anything
newer than that. The lower end Radeon 7000/7200/7500 cards should work with
no problems; I'm not sure about the Geforce2/3 cards but I would think an
MX200/MX400/MX440 would be worth a try.
Robert
"Zanadou" <zanadou.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > Hi there (again),
 >
 > So, after all these years, have the video card limits for a VA503+
 > been worked out? I was told once that cards over 32meg of vRAM won't
 > work, but it that true?
 >
 > What are the highest nVidia and ATi cards that can be used in Windows
 > XP? GeForce2? GeForce3? 64meg? Yeah, I know it won't go any higher
 > then AGPx2...
 >
 > TIA.
 >
 > --->Zanadou<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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I found the TNT2 Ultra 32MB video card to be about the best match to
the 503+. If you go with a newer card (I've run GeForce 256 DDR 32MB,
GeForce2 GTS 32MB, and GeForce2MX-series 16 & 32MB cards without any
trouble), you'll gain a few (2 to 5) fps, but the motherboard/CPU will
act as the bottleneck. If you really need better graphics performance,
upgrade to an Athlon system.
  Kevin

Zanadou wrote:
 > Hi there (again),
 >
 > So, after all these years, have the video card limits for a VA503+
 > been worked out? I was told once that cards over 32meg of vRAM won't
 > work, but it that true?
 >
 > What are the highest nVidia and ATi cards that can be used in Windows
 > XP? GeForce2? GeForce3? 64meg? Yeah, I know it won't go any higher
 > then AGPx2...
 >
 > TIA.
 >
 > --->Zanadou<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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I've used a Radeon 7500 on a VA-503+ mainboard. It works fine.
"Robert Akins" <rsakins.DeleteThis@gte.net> wrote in message
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 > Well, it's not worth spending a lot of money on a TI4200 or Radeon 9700 or
 > anything like that. You just move the bottleneck to the CPU/motherboard.
 > Most of the issues with earlier AGP boards were due to excessive current.
I
 > used a 32MB TNT2 Ultra in my 503+ with no problems, but didn't try
anything
 > newer than that. The lower end Radeon 7000/7200/7500 cards should work
with
 > no problems; I'm not sure about the Geforce2/3 cards but I would think an
 > MX200/MX400/MX440 would be worth a try.
 > Robert
 > "Zanadou" <zanadou.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
 > news:2dfbabc7.0307070421.64d6729@posting.google.com...
  > > Hi there (again),
  > >
  > > So, after all these years, have the video card limits for a VA503+
  > > been worked out? I was told once that cards over 32meg of vRAM won't
  > > work, but it that true?
  > >
  > > What are the highest nVidia and ATi cards that can be used in Windows
  > > XP? GeForce2? GeForce3? 64meg? Yeah, I know it won't go any higher
  > > then AGPx2...
  > >
  > > TIA.
  > >
  > > --->Zanadou
 >
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"Robert Akins" <rsakins RemoveThis @gte.net> wrote:


 > no problems; I'm not sure about the Geforce2/3 cards but I would think an
 > MX200/MX400/MX440 would be worth a try. ^
^^^^^

GeForce2 MX200 works without problems! (Elsa Gladiac 2 MX, 32MB)

But don't use "Pipelined Burst cache" in BIOS, then it freezes if a
programm use the 3D-commands (D3D, OpenGL).






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