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1950XT and Asrock board

I've got the exact hardware you're proposing. My motherboard is the Dual VSTA (basically an earlier revision of your 4CoreDual VSTA) which also has a x4 pci-e slot. Before I took the plunge on the x1950xt, I read the following article:

http://www.tomshardware.com/20...ress_scaling_analysis/

Normally, I don't read Tom's Hardware. However, this article is pretty good. They tested performance scaling on an x1900xtx and an 8800GTS across x1, x4, x8, and x16 pci express speeds. To make a long story short, the x1900xtx didn't take too much of a hit even at x4 link, while the 8800GTS suffered pretty badly at anything but x16.

So, if you're thinking of getting an x1950xt, go for it! You'll take a slight performance hit from the x4 pci-e slot, but it'll still be a lot faster than your 6800. Hell, I came from a 6800GT (a bit faster than your 6800) and I noticed a huge performance improvement.

Cheers,
Dave
 
Cool.

I'm taking the plunge on the 1950 xt and a 620HX.

I need to upgrade my PSU and I figure the 620HX will be able to go in my next build when I transition to Vista/DX10.


I'm trying to hold off on putting more money into my current system. How would I fare with only 1 MB of ram for games like BF2, COD2, FEAR, Half-LIFE 2 and possibly Rainbow 6 Vegas, Oblivion.
 
From the testing I have done with my 4coredual and PCI-E cards (8800GTS and HD2900XT) you lose around 10% compared to a similar system with a full PCI-E X16 slot, I've noticed that the ATI card doesn't tend to be affected as badly as the Nvidia card.

I would recommend upgrading to 2GB of DDR2 for that setup...you can never have enougth ram these days.
 
Is it just me or does it sometimes feel like the abandoning of the 8x AGP slot and inflating of prices on the same cards was more a matter of getting you to buy a new motherboard AND a new video card and less a matter about bringing better performance to the masses a couple years ago?
 
Originally posted by: Sonikku
Is it just me or does it sometimes feel like the abandoning of the 8x AGP slot and inflating of prices on the same cards was more a matter of getting you to buy a new motherboard AND a new video card and less a matter about bringing better performance to the masses a couple years ago?
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Of course.

And PCI-E 2.0 will do the same thing.
 
Originally posted by: Sonikku
Is it just me or does it sometimes feel like the abandoning of the 8x AGP slot and inflating of prices on the same cards was more a matter of getting you to buy a new motherboard AND a new video card and less a matter about bringing better performance to the masses a couple years ago?
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that pretty much sums it up...although we will see Video cards that can take advantage of the bandwidth offered by PCI-E x16 in the future...but for now AGP 8x can still do the job quite well.
 
The biggest feature that SHOULD have been added to the PCI-E 2.0 specs, is a STANDARD approach for "steerable" PCI-E lanes. Thus, enabling CrossFire and SLI on ANY STANDARD PLATFORM.

It would have been easy to do, technically. I guess Intel didn't have the political will for it. Too bad, as it would have added a market feature to Intel's boards. Perhaps the issue is NV patents that prevent such a thing from being added. If that's true, then that's a sad state of affairs.
 
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