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9800 pro on AGP 4X motherboard?

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Name: kkiiji
Date: May 16, 2005 at 16:28:08 Pacific
OS: xp pro
CPU/Ram: 2.4ghz/1 gig
Comment:

so i'm thinking of buying a radeon 9800 pro to upgrade my system, but my mobo is kinda old, and it only supports AGP 4X not 8X.
now if i run radeon 9800 pro on 4X, will it be slower than if i bought a new motherboard and ran it on 8X?
will it matter at all? please help



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Response Number 1
Name: Custom Built
Date: May 16, 2005 at 17:54:32 Pacific
Reply:

Most generally people see very little performance difference (if any) when running an 8x card at 4x speed.

Buy the card you will be happy u did.

What card are you replacing?

Have the lambs stopped crying Clarice?


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Response Number 2
Name: kkiiji
Date: May 16, 2005 at 18:00:05 Pacific
Reply:

good old g4 ti4200 :D
well it's good to know that i won't be needing a new mobo...
is there any sites that show the performance comparison though? i like to see some numbers lol
i mean...does the 9800 pro cap the AGP 4X at all? Or is the AGP 8X thing just a money scheme >_>


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Response Number 3
Name: LeFtBehinD
Date: May 17, 2005 at 03:20:43 Pacific
Reply:

I dont think you will be able to notice a difference. Depends what u play and how high the res and graphics are though.

In any case ive come across this same situation, but with AGP motherboards going out I think im gonna save up and wait to get a whole new comp. If u have no plans to do that anytime soon then it would work great.

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Response Number 4
Name: ExoByte
Date: May 17, 2005 at 07:33:11 Pacific
Reply:

you won't notice a difference. Try www.tomshardware.com for a graph..i think its part of the article on PCI express..

http://www1.graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040310/pcie-02.html

there's the graph i was looking for.

-Exobyte


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Response Number 5
Name: Sabertooth
Date: May 17, 2005 at 08:19:08 Pacific
Reply:

Does anyone know what happened to my response ? I would have sworn that I had one right after Custom Built's...

Do not type anything in this space.


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Response Number 6
Name: plyduster
Date: May 17, 2005 at 12:04:49 Pacific
Reply:

Definitely go with a new 8X AGP motherboard, the extra 1/2 frame performance boost is worth it, lol.



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Response Number 7
Name: Chunko
Date: May 17, 2005 at 19:56:33 Pacific
Reply:

I ran my old system at AGPx8.
Now with my current system (same GPU),I'm running it at AGPx4.There is no loss in performance.As a matter of fact,I scored 200 points higher in 3dmark03 while running at AGPx4,though that doesn't really mean much (:.

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Response Number 8
Name: Sabertooth
Date: May 17, 2005 at 20:02:50 Pacific
Reply:

Nevermind, the response was in huan's duplicate thread in another forum. I though I was having a brain for a moment back there.

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