I have three on a a dell vostro 400. Works great no problems.
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I have three on a a dell vostro 400. Works great no problems.
Quote from Landis82:
With all due respect to the above poster, he has no clue what was actually done to his Dell Vostro in order to achieve compatibility with the two graphics cards. He even admitted as much in several of his posts.
You just KNOW you will get one that will be compatible?
Really now??? And how long will that take you?
I don't know about you, but my time is very VALUABLE to me and the last thing that I would want to do is spend a half dozen or so hours trying to "save" a couple hundred bucks ( the difference between a Vostro-400 and a T3400 Precision ) swapping in and out various graphics cards, returning them to the store, making sure it wasn't a defective card to begin with by testing it out in another computer, etc.
nVidia techs told me that the GeForce cards all share the same driver and that there shouldn't be any compatibility issues. I went ahead and ordered a Vostro-400, and then proceeded to spend many hours trying to get the computer to boot-up with two graphics cards.
In the end, I sent back the Vostro-400 to Dell and returned the GeForce 6200 PCI card that I had purchased ( the second one, just to make sure that the first one wasn't defective ).
This took a TON of hours out of my week.
If you want to be DISTRACTED FROM TRADING playing computer "techie" be my guest. My time is much more valuable than the few hundred dollar price differential between a computer that ( by and large ) was not designed by Dell to support more than 2 monitors, and one that DOES.
Good Luck.
Let us all know how it turns out for you and how many hours you spent on this compatibility "issue".
I understand what you are saying about your time and all that crap but i don't think you completely read my post.
I was trying to explain to you that the way pc open architecture works is the same for both computers. you cannot really say that no pci cards will work in the vostro unless you are saying the pci bus in the design is defective which i will not believe unless everyone is having problems with all sorts of pci cards(sound, serial,vga etc) and that is not likely. the motherboard doesn't actually care what type of pci card it is as long as it can communicate with the motherboard and do its thing.
look you tried with a xx brand geforce 6200 and then got the same exact card as a replacement instead of trying another one even though the first one worked fine on another computer.
it could have been that the card you got, the manufactuere did not use a reference design( by refernce design i mean a design by nvidia) of the geforce card so it did not properly interface with the motherboard correctly or the motherboard didn't reconize it. THIS WILL HAPPEN with any open architecture computer. even your precious T3400.
look maybe your jaded because you actually did spend alot of your precious super expensive time on it but i will just do what someone has already done and was successful with. because of both of your experieces maybe i and a few other people will have an easier time.
anyways i am done trying to explain this.
I like my dell and i have no problems you like yours....whatever.