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Intel Integrated Graphics; Is there a AGP slot
Topic Started: Nov 30 2003, 02:12 AM (593 Views)
uneedh20
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I just bought my H2542 eMachine with the integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 3D. I was wondering if my motherboard had a AGP slot to upgrade to a better graphics card to play 3D games. The Intel Extreme graphics just is not enough for 3D gaming. The motherboard is a Imperial GV and I am not sure if it has one(AGP slot).

If it does not, can I get a new motherboard to put in my H2542 case and exchange all the components from the Imperial GV motherboard?

I don't imagine the eMachines company will help me out on this, as I just bought it about 28 days ago?

Also I don't think there are any PCI graphics cards that match up to AGP cards, but if I am wrong please let me know.

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Grizzly
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You will need to open the case and look, Where all the slots are, if you have a dark brown Slot that is offset from the others as the first one then, then yes you have and agp slot.

Please let us know so we can add it to the documentation...

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As far as PCI Graphics cards go it all depends on what you want to do, I have heard good things about the newer Geforce 5200 pci versions of the card...



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Matthias777
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if you don't have an agp slot, and you end up having to use a pci video card, the geforce 5200 is good, and so is the radeon 9200se...info-tek makes a 128mb version of it that can be found on newegg.com for around $70, i believe. i've been nosing around in anticipation of christmas money, and i'm leaning towards that one myself. anyway, hopefully you'll have the agp slot and you can go blow $400 on a radeon 9800 xtasy card. :D good luck!

Matt
The eMach 1.23
etower 566irx, Anaheim-2a Mainboard (v1.04 BIOS)
Arrow 300W mATX PSU
1.1GHz Celeron with Lin-Lin @ 1.23GHz w/Vantec Aeroflow HSF
512MB PC133 SDRAM
Info-Tek Radeon 9200SE 128MB PCI
80GB WD Caviar SE
16x DVD, 16x10x40 CD-RW
Creative Labs Ensoniq Sound Card, Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers
U.S. Robotics USB 56k Modem, 10MB NIC
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WinXP Pro, Black Rounded IDE Cables, 1" Lift, Green HDD LED, Cardfan
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uneedh20
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As I just bought the computer 29 days ago, I cannot open the case without the manufacturer knowing, making the warantee null and void.

There is one of those security stickers to tell if I have opened the case. Which sucks, but I thought one of you might know the answers to my question.

Also my eMachine did not come with a Windows XP certified CD, just the restoration cd's, is that normal? I want to reinstall IE 6.0 and can I do that from the restoration cd's?

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lubner10
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but I thought one of you might know the answers to my question.

You have 3 PCI Slots with no other. Here's some info from e machine.
ImperialGV:
Manufacturer TriGem International
Dimensions 245mm * 230mm * 1.6T (4 Layers)
Form Factor Micro ATX
CPU Socket/Slot Type mPGA478
Chipset Intel 845GV
RAM Type (Various) DDR PC2700 DIMM
Number of RAM Slots 2
Total RAM Capacity 2048
RAM Stick Size Limit 1024
BIOS/CMOS
Front Side Bus Speed 400/533 MHz

ISA Slots 0
PCI Slots 3
AGP Slots 0
AMR Slots 0
CNR Slots 0

Onboard Video Intel Extreme Graphics 3D 845GV AGP
Onboard Audio RealTek ALC650 (AC 97 2.2)
Battery CR2032
PS/2 Ports 2
Parallel Ports 1
Serial Ports 1
VGA Ports 1
DVI-I Ports 0
SVideo In Ports 0
SVideo Out Ports 0
RCA Ports 0
Microphone Ports (Front) 1
Microphone Ports (Back) 1
MIDI/Game Ports (Front) 0
MIDI/Game Ports (Back) 0
Audio/Line In Ports (Front) 0
Audio/Line In Ports (Back) 1
Spk./Headph. Ports (Front) 1
Spk./Headph. Ports (Back) 1
USB Ports by Header (Front) 2
USB Ports (Back) 4
Firewire Ports (Front) 0
Firewire Ports (Back) 0
RJ-11 (Phone) Ports (Front) 0
RJ-11 (Phone) Ports (Back) 0
RJ-45 (NIC) Ports (Front) 0 (10/100)
RJ-45 (NIC) Ports (Back) 1 (10/100)

eMachines Part #
Manufacturer's Part #
Motherboard Manual
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Also my eMachine did not come with a Windows XP certified CD, just the restoration cd's, is that normal?

Yes. XP is on that disc.
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I want to reinstall IE 6.0 and can I do that from the restoration cd's?

I'm not sure you can do that. To my knowledge if you do that (use restore disc) you will lose all your saved data. This will restore system back to how it was new. Go download IE6 from Microsoft's site
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Matthias777
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ick! forgot about those stupid stickers...hate those things. good detective work lubner. also the added bonus of dling ie 6.0 off microsoft's website is that you're sure to get the latest version (though i doubt any bug fixes have come out in the past month, it doesn't hurt). just make sure you don't try and uninstall internet explorer from your system...since it uses that to work with file folders and windows too. ah, the stupid crazy stupid (did i say stupid) stuff you do when you're 14. as far as browsers go, have you considered mozilla or opera? anyway, good luck... :)

Matt
The eMach 1.23
etower 566irx, Anaheim-2a Mainboard (v1.04 BIOS)
Arrow 300W mATX PSU
1.1GHz Celeron with Lin-Lin @ 1.23GHz w/Vantec Aeroflow HSF
512MB PC133 SDRAM
Info-Tek Radeon 9200SE 128MB PCI
80GB WD Caviar SE
16x DVD, 16x10x40 CD-RW
Creative Labs Ensoniq Sound Card, Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers
U.S. Robotics USB 56k Modem, 10MB NIC
17" Envision Flat CRT
MS Wireless Intellimouse 1.0a
WinXP Pro, Black Rounded IDE Cables, 1" Lift, Green HDD LED, Cardfan
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Jojo123
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Compuplus has a GeForce FX 5200 256mb PCI card for $130. If you're thinking of "upgrading" the motherboard (which sounds like a nightmare to me, novice here) to get AGP 8X, I'd suggest checking out PCI Express which is due out next summer I think. It's supposed to render AGP 8X obsolete. Heck, go all out and get the 64bit AMD motherboard with PCI Express...$$$
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Compuplus has a GeForce FX 5200 256mb PCI card for $130.  If you're thinking of "upgrading" the motherboard (which sounds like a nightmare to me, novice here) to get AGP 8X, I'd suggest checking out PCI Express which is due out next summer I think.  It's supposed to render AGP 8X obsolete.  Heck, go all out and get the 64bit AMD motherboard with PCI Express...$$$

Don't bother spending your money on a 256MB PCI graphics card....only the top of the line AGP cards are able to make use of even 128MB of memory, let alone 256MB. Also, very few games make use of textures big enough to use 128MB, unless you are running your games at 1600X1200 with full AA and AF, which would not be possible on any FX5200 card....

Basically, companies put those cards out there because they know people will buy them...people will think "more is better" and buy it...

I don't even think that 256MB on an AGP card will show much improvement over a 128MB one, and certainly not on a PCI card. (In fact, alot of them are slower because the manufacturers use cheaper/slower memory for the 256MB cards)

Here is a link for a good PCI video card review...

Looks like the fastest one out there (at the time of that writing) would be the Inno3D FX5600 with 128MB of memory. Showing 325Mhz Core clock and 550MHz(DDR) memory clock...pretty good numbers really.
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Thanks for the link to the review. I was certainly in that group of people that thought bigger was better. I think I'm going to go for the Visiontek 9100 128mb video card as a result.
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