Built in video card?!?

[rob__100]

Hey, I was just inside my comp and noticed that the video card is built right into the mother board, and i was wonder how do you upgrade the video card in it, would i just put it in one of the AGP slots and pulg my monitor into that or is there something special?

[RowdyDowdy]

what brand and model # is your mobo? you may have to set a jumper or disable the onboard video<BR>in the BIOS setup.

[Juan]

If it is a jumperless board it should autodetect the AGP slot being used.

[Juan]

but you may have to go through bios to set the AGP to enable or disable as well.

[rob__100]

I dont know if its made by AOpen but it says AOpen all over it so Im guessing thats it<BR>and the onboard video car is A Trident Blade3D 8mb

[KinkyAfro]

<br><br><< <i>one of the AGP slots </i> >><br><br><BR><BR>there will only be one.. if you have one that is. It'll be a brown socket set above and slightly further back from the white PCI slots.

[rob__100]

are there any good PCI slot video cards, ive seen some but theyre not very good at all

[RowdyDowdy]

if you have an AGP slot, there are no good PCI video cards. the AGP runs at twice the speed<BR>of the PCI, and it is connected directly to the CPU.

[Iceman]

You can get VooDoo 4 PCI which aren't badd but I would recomment getting an AGP as they are much better.

[CompSnake]

i have the same monitor i think, aopen a70s?<BR>n e ways i had a onboard video to, all i did was just plug it into the agp and it works fine, only thing is dont buy the same video card as me, its ************************ty i get like 20fps in battlefeild 1942 errg