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How to tell What Version AGP Slot

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Name: Frank R
Date: August 2, 2005 at 22:11:10 Pacific
OS: Windows Xp sp2
CPU/Ram: 512 DDR SDRAM
Comment:

Im buying a mother board and the Agp slot says its 8x/4x. how can u tell what version the AGP slot is?
eg. sometimes graphics cards require 3.0 Agp slots.

processor:
2.9 GHz
533MHz fsb




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Name: damasta55r
Date: August 2, 2005 at 23:38:30 Pacific
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If you get 4x/8x, itll usually be backwards compatible.

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Response Number 2
Name: heropsycho2177
Date: August 3, 2005 at 05:46:57 Pacific
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Not that AGP 3.0 is backwards really, but to correct damasta, 4x/8x slots may not be compatible with 1x/2x graphics cards.

This explains it well...

http://www.ertyu.org/~steven_nikkel/agpcompatibility.html

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