AGP 8x / 4x
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Original Message
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Name: WildDog
Date: October 3, 2004 at 11:58:06 Pacific
Subject: AGP 8x / 4xOS: Windows XP proCPU/Ram: 1800+ |
Comment: Hi If i buy a new gfx card that has 8x AGP will it still work in my 4x AGP slot as a 4X card?? or do i need to have a 8x AGP mobo??
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Response Number 1
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Name: Pariah
Date: October 3, 2004 at 13:03:27 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)it will work, but its rather pointless gettin it if the mobo doesn't support it.You might as well get a 4x card! Aopen nforce2 ak70d-400vn m/b
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Response Number 2
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Name: WildDog
Date: October 3, 2004 at 13:20:19 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)ahh cool so it will work ok i'm not to bothered really i'll be upgrading my mobo around christmas. so am i right that it will just be slower? The One The Only PC WIZARD!!!
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Response Number 3
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Name: cliffpage
Date: October 3, 2004 at 15:30:10 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)
in theory it will be slower but you will probably hardly notice the difference. 8x is in theory twice as fast as 4x but in reality there does not seem to be much in it.
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Response Number 4
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Name: JackG
Date: October 3, 2004 at 23:20:23 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)The AGP 8x/4x is just the transfer rate of data through the AGP memory window. A system memory/bus transfer to the video adapters extra memory where commands and data are stored. It does not effect the speed at which the graphics accelerator processor can build and display updates for the screen, unless it is having to wait on data to come in from the system memory. So any differences would depend on what the graphics program was doing. If the adapter has enough memory to load everything it needs for most operations, then the speed of this bus is not important once that data is loaded into the card.
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