Dimension 4550 AGP Video Card Recomendations
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From: Pat Conover on 4 Jul 2010 10:37 Hi All; Well, I know I shouldn't have, but I went ahead and upgraded my old trusty Dimension 4550 with a 2.4 GHz P4 processor and 533MHz bus from 768MB of RAM to 2GB of RAM. Dell said it would only take 1GB, and that upgrade was not worth the effort. But I was on the Crucial site the other day, and ran the memory advisor program that said it would take up to 2GB of memory. So $100 and two 1GB sticks of DDR PC3200 memory later, this old workhorse is running like a new machine! Based on the recommendations in this group, I have also been running Defraggler, and CCleaner, which also helps pep things up. I also run Lars Headerer's (SP?) ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility for NT) aka system restore for adults, and NTREGOPT (NT Registry Optimizer) defrag for the registry. Lean and mean programs, that I highly recommend for your toolkit. Google ERUNT to go to Lars home page. Anyway on to my question, I am now running a lowly 64MB NVidia MX420 AGP video card, and one program that I would like to rum as a local copy won't install with that card. Nice enough to tell me, before I installed the program and had random lockups, etc. The specific requirements that my card doesn't meet are: "24-bit capable graphics accelerator An OpenGL 2.0 or higher compliant video card is required, with at least 32 MB of video memory, however 256 MB of video memory or higher is recommended." So what AGP video card would you recommend based on the above. I think my AGP port is only 2X or something like that and not 4X. Thanks, Pat
From: Pen on 4 Jul 2010 12:25 On 7/4/2010 10:37 AM, Pat Conover wrote: > Hi All; > > Well, I know I shouldn't have, but I went ahead and upgraded my old trusty > Dimension 4550 with a 2.4 GHz P4 processor and 533MHz bus from 768MB of RAM > to 2GB of RAM. Dell said it would only take 1GB, and that upgrade was not > worth the effort. But I was on the Crucial site the other day, and ran the > memory advisor program that said it would take up to 2GB of memory. So $100 > and two 1GB sticks of DDR PC3200 memory later, this old workhorse is running > like a new machine! Based on the recommendations in this group, I have also > been running Defraggler, and CCleaner, which also helps pep things up. I > also run Lars Headerer's (SP?) ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility for NT) aka > system restore for adults, and NTREGOPT (NT Registry Optimizer) defrag for > the registry. Lean and mean programs, that I highly recommend for your > toolkit. Google ERUNT to go to Lars home page. > > Anyway on to my question, I am now running a lowly 64MB NVidia MX420 AGP > video card, and one program that I would like to rum as a local copy won't > install with that card. Nice enough to tell me, before I installed the > program and had random lockups, etc. The specific requirements that my card > doesn't meet are: > > "24-bit capable graphics accelerator An OpenGL 2.0 or higher compliant video > card is required, with at least 32 MB of video memory, however 256 MB of > video memory or higher is recommended." > > So what AGP video card would you recommend based on the above. I think my > AGP port is only 2X or something like that and not 4X. > > Thanks, Pat > > > Your machine actually is 4x. Newegg has a bunch of AGP cards starting at $30 and up. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=agp%20video%20card&bop=And&Order=PRICED&PageSize=100 Dell docs here; http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SYSTEMS/dim4550/specs.htm#1101572
From: Christopher Muto on 4 Jul 2010 12:27 Pat Conover wrote: > Hi All; > > Well, I know I shouldn't have, but I went ahead and upgraded my old trusty > Dimension 4550 with a 2.4 GHz P4 processor and 533MHz bus from 768MB of RAM > to 2GB of RAM. Dell said it would only take 1GB, and that upgrade was not > worth the effort. But I was on the Crucial site the other day, and ran the > memory advisor program that said it would take up to 2GB of memory. So $100 > and two 1GB sticks of DDR PC3200 memory later, this old workhorse is running > like a new machine! Based on the recommendations in this group, I have also > been running Defraggler, and CCleaner, which also helps pep things up. I > also run Lars Headerer's (SP?) ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility for NT) aka > system restore for adults, and NTREGOPT (NT Registry Optimizer) defrag for > the registry. Lean and mean programs, that I highly recommend for your > toolkit. Google ERUNT to go to Lars home page. > > Anyway on to my question, I am now running a lowly 64MB NVidia MX420 AGP > video card, and one program that I would like to rum as a local copy won't > install with that card. Nice enough to tell me, before I installed the > program and had random lockups, etc. The specific requirements that my card > doesn't meet are: > > "24-bit capable graphics accelerator An OpenGL 2.0 or higher compliant video > card is required, with at least 32 MB of video memory, however 256 MB of > video memory or higher is recommended." > > So what AGP video card would you recommend based on the above. I think my > AGP port is only 2X or something like that and not 4X. > > Thanks, Pat > the nvidia mx420 only support opengl 1.3 and so that is probably the problem with whatever software you are trying to run. here is an inexpensive card that support opengl 2. i have no opinion of the card. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131173 if you scroll down to the section on opengl 2 in this wiki you can find the model numbers of older several cards that support opengl 2 which you can probably find on ebay. you have to be careful on how much you want to put into this older machine. i suspect that even if you get a new video card whatever program it is that you are trying to run will likely has disappointing (unusable) performance on this machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL
From: Tim on 4 Jul 2010 12:28 "Pat Conover" wrote in message news:i0q6a0$4s7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... Hi All; Well, I know I shouldn't have, but I went ahead and upgraded my old trusty Dimension 4550 with a 2.4 GHz P4 processor and 533MHz bus from 768MB of RAM to 2GB of RAM. Dell said it would only take 1GB, and that upgrade was not worth the effort. But I was on the Crucial site the other day, and ran the memory advisor program that said it would take up to 2GB of memory. So $100 and two 1GB sticks of DDR PC3200 memory later, this old workhorse is running like a new machine! Based on the recommendations in this group, I have also been running Defraggler, and CCleaner, which also helps pep things up. I also run Lars Headerer's (SP?) ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility for NT) aka system restore for adults, and NTREGOPT (NT Registry Optimizer) defrag for the registry. Lean and mean programs, that I highly recommend for your toolkit. Google ERUNT to go to Lars home page. Anyway on to my question, I am now running a lowly 64MB NVidia MX420 AGP video card, and one program that I would like to rum as a local copy won't install with that card. Nice enough to tell me, before I installed the program and had random lockups, etc. The specific requirements that my card doesn't meet are: "24-bit capable graphics accelerator An OpenGL 2.0 or higher compliant video card is required, with at least 32 MB of video memory, however 256 MB of video memory or higher is recommended." So what AGP video card would you recommend based on the above. I think my AGP port is only 2X or something like that and not 4X. Thanks, Pat http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187045 This should be a nice upgrade. I had similar in my 4550.
From: Christopher Muto on 4 Jul 2010 12:32
Pen wrote: > On 7/4/2010 10:37 AM, Pat Conover wrote: >> Hi All; >> >> Well, I know I shouldn't have, but I went ahead and upgraded my old trusty >> Dimension 4550 with a 2.4 GHz P4 processor and 533MHz bus from 768MB of RAM >> to 2GB of RAM. Dell said it would only take 1GB, and that upgrade was not >> worth the effort. But I was on the Crucial site the other day, and ran the >> memory advisor program that said it would take up to 2GB of memory. So $100 >> and two 1GB sticks of DDR PC3200 memory later, this old workhorse is running >> like a new machine! Based on the recommendations in this group, I have also >> been running Defraggler, and CCleaner, which also helps pep things up. I >> also run Lars Headerer's (SP?) ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility for NT) aka >> system restore for adults, and NTREGOPT (NT Registry Optimizer) defrag for >> the registry. Lean and mean programs, that I highly recommend for your >> toolkit. Google ERUNT to go to Lars home page. >> >> Anyway on to my question, I am now running a lowly 64MB NVidia MX420 AGP >> video card, and one program that I would like to rum as a local copy won't >> install with that card. Nice enough to tell me, before I installed the >> program and had random lockups, etc. The specific requirements that my card >> doesn't meet are: >> >> "24-bit capable graphics accelerator An OpenGL 2.0 or higher compliant video >> card is required, with at least 32 MB of video memory, however 256 MB of >> video memory or higher is recommended." >> >> So what AGP video card would you recommend based on the above. I think my >> AGP port is only 2X or something like that and not 4X. >> >> Thanks, Pat >> >> >> > Your machine actually is 4x. Newegg has a bunch of AGP cards > starting at $30 and up. > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=agp%20video%20card&bop=And&Order=PRICED&PageSize=100 > Dell docs here; > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SYSTEMS/dim4550/specs.htm#1101572 careful, many of the card in that list do not support opengl 2.0. but the $589 card does ;) |