Will a ati video card work with an IBM Thinkcentre SSF

Hi,

The ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI video card is a very old and low power video card.

PCI graphics cards are not as fast as AGP graphics cards so if your motherboard has an AGP slot (it's the slot closest to the CPU and is usually coloured brown) then that would give you better performance.

These days AGP has been superceded by PCI-Express but since your motherboard does not have a PCI-Express slot then the best graphics card for it would be something like this one:

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/5416296/Sapphire-ATI-Radeon-HD-3850-512MB-DDR3-AGP-8X-Graphics-Card/Product.html

Hope this helps, please rate my answer :)

Chris

Yes, this video card is extremely weak and it can't even show regular video from the sites. You really need to replace this junk.

Please do what the link below suggest
Search for Drivers Online

The 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT Dual-VGA or Dual-DVI, TV-Out Graphics Card (43R1962)

The 128MB ATI RADEON X300 VGA, VGA PCI-e Dual Head Graphics Adapter (40Y8405)
The 64MB NVIDIA GeForce 6200 VGA PCI-e Dual Head ThinkCentre Graphics Adapter (73P2517)
The 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Dual-VGA or Dual-DVI, TV-out PCI-Express Graphics Adapter (41U5028)
The 128MB ATI RADEON X300SE Dual-VGA or Dual-DVI Dual Head ThinkCentre and Lenovo PCI-e graphics adapter (41U4813)
The 128MB ATI RADEON X700 VGA, DVI-I, TV-Out PCI-e Dual Head ThinkCentre Graphics Adapter (73P2518)

All above are compatible with the ThinkCentre M52. Hope this helps, Best Regards, - md

as long as your PCI slot is the same as the card it will work fine just make sure you install the drivers from the disk and not the OS

A replacemnet video card would help some, but you still have the problem of the 440 mhz processor.

There is not a lot you can do about the processor outside of rebuilding the whole computer. If for some reason that is not an option for you, then yeah, a $20 video card from ebay might give some relief (if you know what to get.. AGP or PCI), but don't be surprised if your processor is just too taxed to render high quality video at the proper rate.

Give this a try:
1. go to http://ati.amd.com
2. Click "Support and Drivers" at the top of the page.
3. Under "Graphics Support" click on "Download graphics drivers"
4. You'll see 3 boxes, the first one is a list of operating systems. Scroll down and choose WIndows ME/ 98 under Legacy
5. Click Legacy in the middle window
6. Find the right model card in the 3rd window and click it.
7. Download the driver and try to install it.

THIS MAY NOT WORK, because the card is old and the drivers are not for XP (I'm assuming you have XP), but you should get an error message if it won't work.

If you do not see your graphics driver listed on this ATI link;
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

You'll have no choice but to download from this other site;
http://www.driverfiles.net/Video-Adapters/ATI/3D-Rage-LT-Pro/download/page,sh,1485,254,5,.html

hi,

This is where I download most of my drivers... click me

Happy FIXYA! Peace!!!

find it
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
Sergio