ADD2 Support?

[David]

Just been given a Core 2 Duo HP Compaq DC5700 system which has what
appears to be a graphics card slot with ADD2 Support written along side.

Initial searching suggests that this may be a special type of card which
interacts with the CPU (and perhaps an integrated graphics chip) through
the PCIe bus. Still confused, though.

The PC only has VGA so I am contemplating adding something better, but not
sure that ADD2 is the way to go.

Can anyone remember what this is all about?

Reasonable PCIe graphics cards are available around the £20 mark.

Cheers


Dave R



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[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On 18 Dec 2016 12:30:14 GMT, David <wib...@btinternet.com> wrote:

>Just been given a Core 2 Duo HP Compaq DC5700 system which has what
>appears to be a graphics card slot with ADD2 Support written along side.
>
>Initial searching suggests that this may be a special type of card which
>interacts with the CPU (and perhaps an integrated graphics chip) through
>the PCIe bus. Still confused, though.

Intel's page at
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/000005747.html
says ADD2 support means you can plug in a non-PCIe card that'll just
give more varied graphics-out sockets for an integrated Intel graphics
controller.

So if there's a graphics-card-like-object in the PCIe slot, remove it
and you have a normal PCIe slot. If there isn't, no worries.

Cheers - Jaimie
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[Rob Morley]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 12:40:55 +0000
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> On 18 Dec 2016 12:30:14 GMT, David <wib...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> >Just been given a Core 2 Duo HP Compaq DC5700 system which has what
> >appears to be a graphics card slot with ADD2 Support written along
> >side.
> >
> >Initial searching suggests that this may be a special type of card
> >which interacts with the CPU (and perhaps an integrated graphics
> >chip) through the PCIe bus. Still confused, though.
>
> Intel's page at
> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/000005747.html
> says ADD2 support means you can plug in a non-PCIe card that'll just
> give more varied graphics-out sockets for an integrated Intel graphics
> controller.
>
> So if there's a graphics-card-like-object in the PCIe slot, remove it
> and you have a normal PCIe slot. If there isn't, no worries.
>

But the OP says he wants more than the current VGA connector, in which
case he might benefit from the non-PCIe card with extra connectors.
Although it's likely that the £30 PCIe card he might add will
out-perform any sort of Intel graphics solution.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:22:56 +0000, Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 12:40:55 +0000
>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>
>> On 18 Dec 2016 12:30:14 GMT, David <wib...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Just been given a Core 2 Duo HP Compaq DC5700 system which has what
>> >appears to be a graphics card slot with ADD2 Support written along
>> >side.
>> >
>> >Initial searching suggests that this may be a special type of card
>> >which interacts with the CPU (and perhaps an integrated graphics
>> >chip) through the PCIe bus. Still confused, though.
>>
>> Intel's page at
>> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/000005747.html
>> says ADD2 support means you can plug in a non-PCIe card that'll just
>> give more varied graphics-out sockets for an integrated Intel graphics
>> controller.
>>
>> So if there's a graphics-card-like-object in the PCIe slot, remove it
>> and you have a normal PCIe slot. If there isn't, no worries.
>>
>But the OP says he wants more than the current VGA connector,

I was reading "better" as in "faster graphics" rather than "more
connectors". David?

>in which
>case he might benefit from the non-PCIe card with extra connectors.

>Although it's likely that the Ł30 PCIe card he might add will

>out-perform any sort of Intel graphics solution.

Probably cheaper than an ADD2 card as well!

[David]

>>Although it's likely that the £30 PCIe card he might add will

>>out-perform any sort of Intel graphics solution.
>
> Probably cheaper than an ADD2 card as well!
>
> Cheers - Jaimie

Both, really.

DVI and HDMI support and perhaps a little more poke.

Having just built an AMD system which required a graphics card I have a
likely candidate; just checking that I wasn't missing anything by going
for a recent bottom end card instead of searching out an ADD2 card.

Given that the card I have in mind more or less matches the on-board
graphics on my i5 2500k I imagine it knocks spots off anything built into
a Core 2 Duo.

Cheers


Dave R



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[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On 23 Dec 2016 14:17:02 GMT, David <wib...@btinternet.com> wrote:

>Given that the card I have in mind more or less matches the on-board
>graphics on my i5 2500k I imagine it knocks spots off anything built into
>a Core 2 Duo.

Oh, ye olde GMA950. They were pretty awful. Yes, you'd be right.