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| Thread ID: 57155 | 2005-04-25 02:36:00 | AGP times four or eight for this video card | shomenno (7767) | Press F1 |
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| 348534 | 2005-04-25 02:36:00 | Hello I am looking to purchase a second hand graphics card, it is an Albatron GeForce 6800 GT 8 times AGP card. I am in the throws of up grading my computer, I have not got the new motherboard as of yet (which will be 8 times AGP). My question is this, the web sight appears to suggest that either a times 4 or eight slot is needed. It is definately a times eight card. Am I right in assuming that it will work on my current times four AGP motherboard? Below is the link. www.albatron.com.tw Thank you for any help on this matter... Shomenno |
shomenno (7767) | ||
| 348535 | 2005-04-25 02:40:00 | yep it will work, but it will be throttled back to 4x | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 348536 | 2005-04-25 03:01:00 | The card will run fine on AGP 8x, however it will be throttled to the equivalent speed of 4x. I definitely do recommend that you plan to upgrade to AGP 8x in the future though. You could even go with PCI-Express if you feel like it. Tell me more of your computers specs and I'll see if there's a good PCI-E motherboard out there to suit your system. |
Aurealis_ (7897) | ||
| 348537 | 2005-04-25 03:05:00 | The card will run fine on AGP 8x, however it will be throttled to the equivalent speed of 4x . I definitely do recommend that you plan to upgrade to AGP 8x in the future though . You could even go with PCI-Express if you feel like it . Tell me more of your computers specs and I'll see if there's a good PCI-E motherboard out there to suit your system . That would then make the current 6800GT obsolete . PCI-E boards don't have an AGP slot . The card is great - just upgrade to a new AGP based board will be fine . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 348538 | 2005-04-25 05:17:00 | Well I know I need a new graphics card and memory and thus a motherboard. I am opting for the AGP card as it is for sale second hand and thus cheaper than a new one. I figure the second hand card is better than a PCI 6600 GT with 256mb. So the compromise is an AGP based motherboard, this is no big deal as I have four cards in my current machine and so PCI slots are more important to me - PCIe based motherboards dont seem to have many PCI slots. The question is also arround whether I should change CPU's too. Currently have a P4 (Northwood) 2.53 with a 133 FSB and 533 bus speed. The alternatve to this would be an AMD athalon 64 3500+ cpu. Its all dont to the extra cash and speed gains and I am not sure? Will go for 1 Gig DDR 400. Any suggestions with regard to motherboards given the above and the CPU (being worth upgrading - in real terms). Cheers... Shomennno |
shomenno (7767) | ||
| 348539 | 2005-04-25 05:22:00 | That would then make the current 6800GT obsolete. PCI-E boards don't have an AGP slot. The card is great - just upgrade to a new AGP based board will be fine. Indeed it would Pctek, I should have been more clear. What I meant was that shomenno could go with a complete PCI-E setup instead, seeing as he already has plans to upgrade the motherboard. |
Aurealis_ (7897) | ||
| 348540 | 2005-04-25 08:43:00 | The question is also arround whether I should change CPU's too . Currently have a P4 (Northwood) 2 . 53 with a 133 FSB and 533 bus speed . The alternatve to this would be an AMD athalon 64 3500+ cpu . Its all dont to the extra cash and speed gains and I am not sure? Will go for 1 Gig DDR 400 . Any suggestions with regard to motherboards given the above and the CPU (being worth upgrading - in real terms) . What do you use your computer for? Are you a gamer? If so, then upgrading the CPU will make a bit of difference, particularly if you upgrade everything else, eg the graphics card and more RAM . If you are not a gamer then you won't notice a significant increase in speed to justify upgrading the CPU at this stage . A little, yes, but not a great deal because the P4 2 . 53 is not really a slug . Upgrading your graphics card and increasing the RAM will be more sensible . The only catch is that if your current motherboard can only support a 4x graphics card then I am not sure what kind of improvement you would get with a new card . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 348541 | 2005-04-25 10:34:00 | Don't get too hung up on graphics card "potential". Very few gaming applications make that much of the bandwidth available through the AGP slot, let alone PCI-E. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 348542 | 2005-04-25 11:31:00 | Don't get too hung up on graphics card "potential". Very few gaming applications make that much of the bandwidth available through the AGP slot, let alone PCI-E. Yeah to add to that Ati have recently brought out their X850 XT PE onto AGP and it still does very well. I wouldn't really recommend a high end card going into an old board with a 4x slot. I remember buying a Radeon 9800 Pro and putting it in my old system (2400+ with 384MB of PC-133 RAM, AGP 4x). Gameplay was worse than a MX440, very laggy etc. So I would say it's not a good idea to pair a 6800GT with an old chipset/CPU/RAM because the rest of the system will be a rather large bottleneck for the graphics card. What you're really looking at is a full system upgrade or replacement, so I can see costs escalating. Depending on the rest of the system you could probably salvage the floppy drive, CD-RW/DVDRW and maybe the monitor and sell the rest on Trademe if you wanted to recover some costs. |
E|im (87) | ||
| 348543 | 2005-04-26 23:49:00 | Albatron and Elitegroup make mobos that support both AGP express AND PCI-e graphics slot. | xmojo1 (4630) | ||
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