Performance hit with x8 card in x4 slot?

Bobby

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Jan 21, 2004, 4:23:10 PM1/21/04

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I have a Radeon 9600 Pro AGPx8 card in my PC which only has an AGPx4 slot.

It works fine but how much of a performance-hit will this cause? My system
seems to be running fast so it can't be half speed?

Bobby

Geoff

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Jan 21, 2004, 4:45:16 PM1/21/04

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it is running at half speed (that being agp x 4)
it doesn't make bugga all difference does it ? :)

Strontium

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Jan 21, 2004, 5:27:09 PM1/21/04

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Bobby stood up at show-n-tell, in
bumqjt$j53oc$1...@ID-205685.news.uni-berlin.de, and said:

You are not running, at half speed. You are running with half the
bandwidth. The difference, in performance, should be negligible.

>
> Bobby

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DaveW

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Jan 21, 2004, 7:25:01 PM1/21/04

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You have half the maximum data transfer rate available.

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v56k

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Jan 22, 2004, 3:32:56 AM1/22/04

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Bobby wrote:

There's plenty of tests on the web abouyt AGP 4x v 8x and the result is that
it makes no difference at all (2-3fps).

Darthy

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Jan 22, 2004, 3:45:08 AM1/22/04

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You maybe losing 0-3fps.... Time to blow $300 on a CPU/mobo upgrade!

dont worry about it.

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J. Clarke

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Jan 22, 2004, 5:04:54 AM1/22/04

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DaveW wrote:

> You have half the maximum data transfer rate available.

A classic example of a true statement that contains no useful information.
Now, how much difference do you think that makes on what he sees on the
screen?

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Darthy

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Jan 22, 2004, 11:20:54 PM1/22/04

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:04:54 -0500, "J. Clarke"
<jcl...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>DaveW wrote:
>
>> You have half the maximum data transfer rate available.
>
>A classic example of a true statement that contains no useful information.
>Now, how much difference do you think that makes on what he sees on the
>screen?

This DaveW character is on both ATI and Nvidia groups, every post he
makes is misinformation FUD. Totally screwing over n00bs asking
question - so others have to jump in and provide correct info to the
OP.

Best thing is to ignore him, and perhaps tell him to shut up because
hes an idiot.

Bobby

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Jan 23, 2004, 4:37:30 AM1/23/04

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> >DaveW wrote:
> >
> >> You have half the maximum data transfer rate available.

> This DaveW character is on both ATI and Nvidia groups, every post he

> makes is misinformation FUD. Totally screwing over n00bs asking
> question - so others have to jump in and provide correct info to the
> OP.

Are you sure that he's just not... err... very smart?

Darthy

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Jan 24, 2004, 6:31:16 AM1/24/04

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Look up his posts (View by name) here and Nvidia group... yep, hes a
complete moron.