Has anyone tried GeForce 6600 and 6800 cards, which contain universal AGP connectors, in AGP 2x motherboards? What was the outcome? Can a 6800 really run at the higher voltages of AGP 2X and how is this accomplished? Is there something on the graphic card's PCB to step-down the voltage?
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Various 6600GT (Sparkle, Galaxy, BFG, etc) - works fine.
Galaxy 7900GS - works fine.
ASUS 6800GT - works fine after removal of blank PCB part (mentioned here on Vogons).
Is there something on the graphic card's PCB to step-down the voltage?
I think this cards does not draw any power from AGP slot at all. Or perhaps only for PCI-E to AGP bridge, with everything else being powered directly from PSU. I've read somewhere that it has 3,3v support in specs.
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wrote:Has anyone tried GeForce 6600 and 6800 cards, which contain universal AGP connectors, in AGP 2x motherboards? What was the outcome? Can a 6800 really run at the higher voltages of AGP 2X and how is this accomplished? Is there something on the graphic card's PCB to step-down the voltage?
Asus cards work when you 'saw' off the blank notch for connection to an Universal AGP slot or 2x slot e. g. 440BX boards with updated BIOS. See:
Re: Would this mod to this Geforce 6800 from AGP 1.5v to 3.3v kill it?
Thee graphics cards are designed to work with 3.3V signals, and the Asus 6800GT is Ultra spec, so you can run it cool and ramp up speed with Rivatuner if needed.
I'm not sure I understand. An AGP 3.0, 8x card is designed to work with 3.3 V signals? Or just the GeForce 6 series cards were designed to work with 3.3 V signals? I thought AGP 8x cards were designed to work with 0.8 and 1.5 V signals? Does using signals that are four times higher than AGP 3.0 spec cause the graphics chipset to heat up more than at 0.8 V?
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You can have AGP 3.0 and still be 3,3V capable.
Check FX series from nVidia (all have AGP 3.0 or "8x" support while most still has two nothes/universal connector).
Just thought I would chime in about an issue I experienced under Windows 98 SE with an i815EP based board and either a 6600 or a 6600GT .
The issue was either a complete system freeze or an extreme loss of speed (depending on driver version) while scrolling rapidly up or down in a browser (IE or Firefox) . I tried several driver versions (including official and unofficial ones) before giving up and switching to a Geforce 5900 instead, which has no such issues .
I recall the exact same problem when using an PCI-based GeForce Quadro FX600. Only one alpha version of some Nvidia driver which was able to correct this issue. There was one later, non-alpha driver which worked, however the system would not soft reset. So I kept the alpha driver.
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Nvidia drivers are notoriously problematic on a P3 systems after certain point.
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