Just wondering:
I currently have a Dell 2.8ghz, 1 gig Ram and a 9800 pro. Unfortunately the
system only has a 4x agp slot. I upgraded from a G4 Ti4400 to the 9800 pro and
the difference was incredible.

What I want to do now is to upgrade again to a X800 pro. The question is, will
I have too much of a bottleneck because of the 4x agp slot or do you think Ill
still see some good performance gains..
Thank you......

On 05 Nov 2004 11:41:56 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (Chris2270) wrote:

>What I want to do now is to upgrade again to a X800 pro. The question is, will
>I have too much of a bottleneck because of the 4x agp slot or do you think Ill
>still see some good performance gains..

Try reading the last thread "Can AGP handle it...?" let alone the
other hundreds of times the same question has been asked.
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Sorry....Its late

So I guess the answer is.......4x isnt even close to being saturated
yet........Thanks Andrew for your bright cheery attitude to a harmless
question.

With the 4x limitation of your motherboard you will be wasting Half of the
speed of the 9800 8x.

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"Chris2270" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Just wondering:
> I currently have a Dell 2.8ghz, 1 gig Ram and a 9800 pro. Unfortunately
> the
> system only has a 4x agp slot. I upgraded from a G4 Ti4400 to the 9800 pro
> and
> the difference was incredible.
>
> What I want to do now is to upgrade again to a X800 pro. The question is,
> will
> I have too much of a bottleneck because of the 4x agp slot or do you think
> Ill
> still see some good performance gains..
> Thank you......

In article <CYUid.2247$5K2.447@attbi_s03>, DaveW says...
> With the 4x limitation of your motherboard you will be wasting Half of the
> speed of the 9800 8x.
>
>
ROFLMAO. Seeing as the bandwidth on 4X AGP isn't even close to being
fully utilised even on Doom3 with a GF6800 Ultra then the fact you're
using an 8x card with a GPU that will crap out on long before you get
above 4x AGP means that it doesn't really matter much does it?


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"DaveW" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> With the 4x limitation of your motherboard you will be wasting Half of the
> speed of the 9800 8x.

No. Just no.