I've got an asus m2n-x plus motherboard and i'm thinking of buying a new video card. was thinking about a Gainward nVidia GeForce 9800 GT, 512MB, DDR3, 256bit, SLI, HDTV, PCI-E. the problem is that the videocard hasPCI express 2.0 while the motherboard has a pci-e 1.0 slot. wonder if the two are compatible

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Basically, any graphics card is capable of being compatible with this motherboard. I had some difficulties for a while until I figured out you have to MANUALLY set it to use your PCIE 2.0 GPU output.
How to do this is to set your jumpers to external output only. First thing you'll want to do is update the BIOS on the motherboard (Which you can do by getting "Asus-Update". Find it on google, easy to use, just make sure your computer doesn't crash during the BIOS flashing.
Afterwards, set the jumpers to use your PCIE-2.0 slot. Took me a little while to figure this out, and it's a little hard to explain.
Above your PCIE-2.0 slot there are 5 little blue 'plastic-like' things. Those are your jumpers. Take them out and insert them HORIZONTALLY as such:
+ [ + + ] + [ + + ] + [ + + ] + [ + + ] + [ + + ]
Basically, make sure the jumper things are connecting the little drawing there. They HAVE to be horizontally inserted, otherwise this WILL NOT WORK. Just plug in your monitor to the graphics card's output, and you're good to go. Hopefully it works for you.

BRIAN REISS

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• Posted on Nov 02, 2008

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HI! THE ONE QUESTION I NEED TO KNOW IS WHAT OS? JUST GENERALLY I WOULD SAY THAT YOU MIGHT TRY TO UPDATE THE OS TO THE LATEST VERSION. AGAIN, NOT KNOWING THE OS, THIS IS A FIX I WOULD TRY. YOU SAID THE PROBLEM HAPPENED AFTER YOU INSTALLED THE OS, BUT WHAT ELSE WAS INSTALLED ALSO? YOU MIGHT NEED TO LOOK AT ALL PROGRAMS TO BE SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE LATEST VERSIONS AND THAT THEY ARE COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR OS. SO, THESE ARE SOME IDEAS FOR NOW. TRY THEM AND IF NO LUCK, REPLY AND LET ME KNOW THE OS YOU ARE USING AND THE PROGRAMS INSTALLED. OK? I'LL BE GLAD TO HELP.

ARCLIGHT1217

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• Posted on Dec 06, 2008

SOURCE: Does Intel DG35EC Motherboard supports BFG - NVIDIA GeForce 9800

YES I HAVE CHECKED IT WILL SUPPORT THE CARD.RICHARDM69

SOURCE: i am using this ASUS (asus M2N-MX nvidia mcp61p chipset

Your board uses DDR2 800/667/533 (Non-ECC, un-buffered) Memory modules in 4 DIMM slots. You could go up to a maximum memory size of 4GB.

How much memory do you want?
Example: If you now have 1 DIMM module DDR2 533 512 MB, you could install another identical module in the next available slot and double your RAM to 1GB.