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Originally Posted by keithwalton
Yes 3.3v agp cards are first and 2x generation cards.
All agp 4x and 8x cards will be 1.5v and as Zinglebarb has quite rightly said there are notches to prevent installing incompatible cards.
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Not so. There's a universal AGP slot that has no notches, so you can fit any AGP card. I know this because I found out the hard way. When I went from my Athlon 750MHz with a 2x/4x card (before I knew anything about 8x AGP voltages) I got a new mobo (ASUS with 8x slot) which had a universal slot. A plain 4x card would work ok with the mobo, but an older 2x/4x card would not. It had the notches on the GFX card itself, but because the slot didn't have any 'stoppers' to fit in the notches, the card went in fine. Turned machine on. Had a problem in the BIOS with the AGP settings, wasn't sure why. 5 mins later, the mobo died. Did some research. Sent mobo back to Scan and claimed it was faulty as received
