Need to add a agp card

[mathewlisett]

16 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. S651MPRZ rev 1.0  is the info i found about my mobo.

so my question being, would even a 64mb agp card be a massive speed change, or shoud i be lookign at the 512mb agp cards

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome.

A bit more information would make an answer a lot better but a lot depends on what you are planning to do with the system. For the sake of the smal amount of extra cash for the bigger memory I woluld say go for that.

[mathewlisett]

at the moment the system itself is struggling , as in i leave windows open for a few hours and if i went to minimize the window it would take a good minutes for sections of the windoww to go away. hence why i beieve it needs a agp card, but im not sure what memory size it needs.

its currently operating windows xp , but thats purely down to the fact its not a fast system.

i also have about 10 web tabs open in firefox at any time, and chrome also takes energy up aswell.

[Dark Mantis]

Like I said a bit more information on your system would help a lot. Perhaps you could list your main components.

[mathewlisett]

iQon.ie S651MPRZ rev 1.0
Enclosure Type: Mini-Tower
Processor a         Main Circuit Board b
2.67 gigahertz Intel Celeron
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Not hyper-threaded         Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. S651MPRZ rev 1.0
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F6f 10/06/2004
1248 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 256 MB
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB

[Dark Mantis]

Well that wasn't quite what I was hoping for but it has given me some insight. Your motherboard can't seem to be found by our system so maybe you have got the number wrong. Usually it is something like GA-xxxx-xxx.

You have a very small amount of memory even for such an old system and your modules should actually be inserted the other way round. Alway instal the largest module first.

When did you last do a clean install of Windows on your machine ?

Perhaps you could fill in this list for me:

CPU: Celeron 2.67
Motherboard:
Memory:
Hard drive:
PSU:
GPU:
OS: Windows XP
Anti virus:
main programs:

[mathewlisett]

it was a resco pre biult system several year ago.

hence why im asking about the agp memory

[Dark Mantis]

Yes I understand but I can't give a lot of useful advice unless I know what you have there otherwise it is just pure guesswork I'm afraid. Sorry.

[mathewlisett]

god im getting really anoyed with this. i was told to come here since the board is from gigabyte but now your saying that since there hardly any details you dont know.

what exactly and why exactly do you need to kow everythign about the system if all im asking is whats the difference in memory between the onboard vga and agp mb card memory?

[Dark Mantis]

The onboard VGA uses some of the system memory whereas the add on card will have it's own. Is that all you're asking?

[mathewlisett]

part of it was yes.

so i will try make the question a bit clearer.

as the vga memory uses it from the system. would even a 64mb agp card be a massive memmory change up, or would i need to look for the 512mb agp cards.

becuase i dont know if the vga takes on 1kilobyte or 600mb  from the systems memory

[Dark Mantis]

If you have an add on card it will come with it's own onboard memory and that is all it should use. The onboard graphics  is configurable as to how much memory it uses.

You haven't said what you plan to do wiuth the card ? If it is games then you need the most memory you can get.

This is just general information as I am unsure about your specific system.

[mathewlisett]

i did reply with what the system is for a few replies back.

basically i have aroudn 10 web tabs open all the time and even when im watchign video on the system, when i minimize the media window and even with windows office word it takes near a miniute to disapear to minimize.

so its general stuff not gaming or encoding

[Dark Mantis]

In that case it would benefit you from having more memory. I would be inclined to get more main memory as well as the extra on the graphics card. Main memory is probably the biggest and easiest upgrade that you can do on your computer especially for the price.

Have a nice day.