what graphic card?

What is the best graphic card that i can put in this motherboard?
Also when I run everest it says AGP disabled this may cause performance penalty. How can this be?
Motherboard Name AOpen AX59 Pro

Front Side Bus Properties
Bus Type Intel GTL
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 100 MHz
Effective Clock 100 MHz
Bandwidth 800 MB/s

Motherboard Physical Info
CPU Sockets/Slots 1
Expansion Slots 2 ISA, 4 PCI, 1 AGP
RAM Slots 3 DIMM
Form Factor ATX
Motherboard Size 200 mm x 300 mm
Motherboard Chipset MVP3

Motherboard Manufacturer
Company Name AOpen Inc.
Product Information http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/mb

 

Due to the age of your motherboard, it will probably be difficult to find a new AGP card. Not that AGP cards are hard to find, but your AGP slot is 1x/2x, which operates at 3.3V, whereas 4X and 8X cards operate at 1.5V. If you look at your AGP slot, you'll see it's "keyed" to accept only certain types of AGP cards.

Looking on Newegg, The best card I can find (of 3 total AGP 2X cards) is this one for $20. You might be better off looking for an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI card, although that's a lot more card than your system can handle because it's so old. It's a Pentium I era system. You're better off saying your money any buying a new system.

As far as the AGP being disabled error, it is likely that you can enable it by downloading and installing this driver for your motherboard.

That's assuming you're currently using an AGP video card. If your current video card is PCI, then you'll obviously can't enable AGP.

 

Also Everest says the AGP slot is empty. I know it isn't. My monitor is plugged into the card.

 

Is there a maximum size hard drive I can install on this system?
If so what determines this.

 

it is my understanding that only if you have windows XP service pack 1 and a 48-bit LBA compatible BIOS will you be able to have a HDD larger than 137 gigs ... your set up most likely does not ... it also depends on what format your HDD is ... also you did not specify what OS you are using so I cannot tell you anything more

 

The spec page claim your mobo can handle up to 137 GB (127 GiB) drives (presumably with the most recent BIOS update, but maybe earlier). It is unlikely that a 48-bit LBA mode BIOS upgrade does or will exist, primarily because UltraATA-33/ATA-4 doesn't support 48-bit LBA (it wasn't added until UltraATA-100/ATA-6). You might be able to use drive overlay software, but I'm not sure.

In any case, you will need to make sure your OS can support these drives. DOS 6 and Win 3.1 are limited to 8.4 GB. Win95a is limited to 2GB partitions and up to 8.4 GB disks. Win95b (OSR2) is limited to 32 GB. With an updated FDISK, Win98 can handle up to 65GB.

If Everest says there's no card in the slot and there clearly is, then Everest is wrong.