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6600gt AGP in AGP 2.0 slot

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rikrak

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Hi - Hope someone can help me with a quick question...

My current spec:

p4 2.8
asus p4t533 motherboard with an AGP 2.0 (4x? slot)
gainward 'golden sample' ti4600 128mb video
512mb 1066 RAM

i have been looking at buying an XFX 6600GT AGP card, but although the manufacturer states that it will run in an AGP 2.0 slot - they recommend AGP 3.0...

Basically - my question is, will i see much improvement over my ti4600? I can't afford to upgrade the whole machine - is there an alternative similarly (or cheaper) priced graphics card which uses AGP 2.0?

Or am i better off sticking with the ti4600 and saving my pennies?

Thanks for your help!

rikrak
 
From everything that I have heard there is minimal realworld difference between using AGP 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0 so you should be fine with the upgrade.
 
You might want to look at that Microcenter deal going on for the eVga 6800NU instead of the 6600GT...They should be about the same price
 
The 6600GT is a 4X/8X AGP card, as are all of the newer AGP cards. There is no real world speed difference between 4X AGP and 8X AGP, so the 6600GT will still kill your ti4600.
 
Cool - i'm a bit clueless when it comes to graphics hardware, especially the differences between all the new cards and formats. So, i assumed that AGP 8x would be twice as fast as 4x! If only it was that easy...

I ordered a 6600gt from ebuyer - as they were the only people i could find with stock in the UK. I got it for £135+vat.

Thanks for all your help. Much appreciated.

rikrak
 
Basically, each slot has more bandwidth. Current cards can't use all the bandwidth in AGP 8x (or 4x really), so there is no performance difference. For a 2x slot, it may slow the card down a little. Each slot is like a funnel with a bigger and bigger hole. The water can get through a 4x and 8x size hole, but it may get slowed down a bit by a 2x. There won't be any huge performance hit, but just so you know if your benchies aren't the 1337 scores you hoped for.
 
Actually there have been some benchmarks that show with the newer cards it does matter if you have 4x or 8x but only truely in bandwidth intensive games. IIRC the benchmark showed that doom3 had a great improvement when 8x was used but that Source showed a very minimal difference. If you search this forum you should find the benchmark I am speaking about.
 
I have never heard of a difference in speed between 4X and 8X AGP that was statistically significant.
 
should you choose to go 6600GT I suggest the MSI 6600GT AGP. It got great reviews and comes with A LOT OF GOODIES (games, video decoder, picture software etc).
 
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