MArvel G200 and i850

[efty]

Will the G200 work with the agp slot of i850 motherboards?
i850 use 1.5v signaling
I have no idea what the G200 uses 3.3v ??

Oh and if anyone is interestes I am selling it :P

[LrngToFly]

I don't know about all i850 mboards. I tried to put one (Mil G200) in an ASUS P4T i850 based board and it wouldn't even physically fit. The P4T's AGP slot could take a AGP 4x or AGP Pro card.

[Wombat]

I don't think it will work. G200's are AGP 1.0 only, and it sounds like i850 boards are AGP 2.0 only. (This is NOT the same as AGP1x and AGP 2x).

[LvR]

If you are willing to do some serious modifications:

Check out a standard 4X cards edge connector - you will find a key-slot roughly an inch from the front of the card that is absent on the Mill 200 and is mechanically preventing it from fitting.

Go find yourself a microgrinder and machine an identical slot on the Mill 200 in the identical position on the card.

Plug in, load the drivers and there you go!

I have 4 of these modded cards running on 845 and 850 based boards because the customer insisted on re-using these cards.

[Wombat]

You've got to be kidding. I can't believe that works. The signalling voltages are all mismatched.

That's going to be ugly when the system fails.

[efty]

May work, who knows

Thats what I thought too. AGP 2.0 uses 1.5v signals while AGP 1.0 uses 3.3v(not sure about that one). I would not risk it anyway.

If matrox comes up with a new DV solution other than the eTV joke, then I will upgrade.

[LvR]

I would have to agree with you in theory.

However, why it works I dont know - maybe Intel and the AGP2.0 spec is not telling all.

The guy has one in his server, and another 3 running as workstation for the last 3 weeks - so far he seems to be happy and he keeps telling his buddies that I dont know what I am talking about when I warned him about electrical incompatibilities

With my luck, the damn things will most likely outlast the 845 chipset!

[Wombat]

Well, the G200s are probably being supplied 1.5V, and using that as its rail for logic high. It's probably a lot more unstable like this and *something* is bound to brown out over time.

[J1NG]

OK, I was thinking about picking up a second hand G200 Marvel, but now with all this talk about the AGP port, I better get this sorted out.

I have a Gigabyte GA-6RX <B>VIA</B> Apollo Pro 266 Chipset motherboard. It's been fitted with an AGP Pro slot, the manual lists it as a

"1x Universal AGP Pro slot 4x/2x (1.5v/3.3v) device support"

Is a Marvel G200 AGP gonna fit in that slot?

Heh, 1Ghz PIII, 4GB PC2100 ECC Reg 2.5 RAM and a whole lot of other stuff, you'd think I'd know whether or not the G200 Marvel AGP will fit...

J1NG