For You PC Power Jockeys... Dell Precision T3400

P.S. I am told by a tech support guy at Nvidia that the FX 5500 PCI slot card series would be compatible with my GeForce 8600 GTS.
 
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P.S. I am told by a tech support guy at Nvidia that the FX 5500 PCI slot card series would be compatible with my GeForce 8600 GTS.
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I don't have any experience with trying to match compatible 2nd cards with gamer cards. You might inquire as to whether any ETers have installed an NVS 280 PCI card with any of the newer Nvidia gamer cards like yours.
 
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This eVGA GeForce 6200 PCI card is looking mighty tastey!
Even comes with the lower voltage and lower heat producing DDR-2 memory.
Very rare for a PCI slot card!

http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=256-P1-N399-LX&pwindow=specs&family=

Circuit City has it for $49.99 online vs $99.00 retail:

http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=193510#prodspecs

Wow.
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There's a potential problem with adding a 3rd party card. It may also "want" you to install its driver, then you'd have 2 video card drivers installed... always a concern for compatibility.
 
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There's a potential problem with adding a 3rd party card. It may also "want" you to install its driver, then you'd have 2 video card drivers installed... always a concern for compatibility.
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Understood.

The Nvidia tech support guy said that the GeForce 6200 and the FX 5500 would be compatible with my existing PCI-Express GeForce 8600 GTS.

We shall see.
 
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I don't have any experience with trying to match compatible 2nd cards with gamer cards. You might inquire as to whether any ETers have installed an NVS 280 PCI card with any of the newer Nvidia gamer cards like yours.
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yep...ran a nvs 280 with a nvidia 8800gt...works fine

now i have a pair of 8800gt in both machines...
 
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I just upgraded to a new Dell Vostro-400 destop computer on Win XP Pro with an Intel Duo-Core E6850 processor at 3.0 GHz., with a 1333 FSB from my 4.5 year old Dell Dimension 8300 ( Pentium 4 at 2.60 GHz. on XP ) and guess what?

My UPLOAD speed increased from 600 kbps to 3,000 kbps!

And that is with my Comcast broadband connection remaining the same.

Unreal.
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I can't believe it. What is comcast's advertised speed? They may have increased their bandwidth recently. Did you go back to the old machine and test the speed again?
 
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yep...ran a nvs 280 with a nvidia 8800gt...works fine
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What about drivers? Did you use the GeForce one and omit the NVS one?
 
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