Can I replace my Nvidia Geforce 2 mx 200 with a new matrox millenium G550?

  Hi,

I hope someone can help me.

In my P4 I've got a Nvidia Geforce 2 mx 200 AGP card and I want to
replace it with a matrox millenium G550 dual monitor card.

If I'm right the new matrox millennium G550 will fit perfectly in my
agp slot port because they are both universal AGP cards.

Can anyone confirm this before I buy this new card?

Thx

 HDI wrote:

According to this, the G550 is universal. Notice that some Matrox
models, existed as two different standards. So for some Matrox
products, you have to be much more careful.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html

Matrox used to have a forum, where issues like this may have
been discussed. But they closed that forum. The G550 is listed
here, as being OK. On the G400, you have to check the part number
for "4A" to be safe. This is an archive of the site - not all
links on an archived page, will work properly.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040114013240/http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=4326

    Paul

 
Ok thanks.

I visited the local shop site and the only matrox G550 I found was an
'Matrox Millenium G550 - 32 MB - PCI Low Profile - 2 x
VGA' (manufacturer code: g55mddap32dbf), so no AGP. There are also
PCIe but I haven't got such a slot.

Should I look further for an AGP or does both of them have the same
performance and is the slot the only difference?
Maybe I'm wrong but I thought AGP is better than PCI.

A second question. Can I put any PCI card in a pci slot or are there
also differences like AGP.

 
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I visited the local shop site and the only matrox G550 I found was an
'Matrox Millenium G550 - 32 MB - PCI Low Profile - 2 x
VGA' (manufacturer code: g55mddap32dbf), so no AGP. There are also
PCIe but I haven't got such a slot.

Should I look further for an AGP or does both of them have the same
performance and is the slot the only difference?
Maybe I'm wrong but I thought AGP is better than PCI.

A second question. Can I put any PCI card in a pci slot or are there
also differences like AGP.

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The 'same' card in AGP or PCIe will have the same, or at least very very
close performance.

Not sure quite what you are asking in the second question...
I suspect you might be confusing PCI with PCIe. PCI is the normal slot used
for add-in cards in the PC. There are usually 3-5 PCI slots on a
motherboard. The PCIe is the new graphics card slot - replacement of AGP. A
PCI card will not fit in a PCIe slot. A PCIe card will not fit in a PCI
slot. As a last resort - look on Wikipedia for a short explanation of them
all.

 
OK thanks I'll look on Wikipedia.


The card I found was an 'Matrox Millenium G550 - 32 MB - PCI Low
Profile - 2 x VGA' (manufacturer code: g55mddap32dbf). It's a PCI not
a PCIe.
I haven't got a PCIe slot.

Is the PCI card also the same and has it the also the same
performance?