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Newbie question about nforce4 chipset

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Dnepr

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This may be a dumb question, but I haven't been keeping up with technology for almost 2 years (I've been running a canned Dell Dimension).

My question: Can you run an AGP Radeon 9800 Pro in an AGP motherboard with the nvidia chipsets? Or would you need to get a socket 939 board with the VIA chipset.
 
Nforce 4 is PCI-E only. There is no AGP present. You would simply have to go with the VIA K8T800 series or the Nforce3 250 series.

If you are concerned about putting an ATI card in an Nvidia motherboard there is no problem although Nvidia users do enjoy a slight performance jump when running Nvidia GPU in Nvidia M/B.

-Kevin
 
So an ATI X800 PCIE would work with nForce4? I ask because I somewhat prefer ATI over nVidia. How much is 'slight' improvement?

Also, does PCIE really offer any significant gains in performance over AGP? I'd love to be able to use my 9800 Pro and not have to buy another card. I guess the VIA K8T800 is about equal in performance to the nforce3 250?

I don't think I'll ever go as far as needing SLI, but who knows. How many 55 year olds need SLI - maybe I can be a fist.
 
Originally posted by: Dnepr
So an ATI X800 PCIE would work with nForce4? I ask because I somewhat prefer ATI over nVidia. How much is 'slight' improvement?

Also, does PCIE really offer any significant gains in performance over AGP? I'd love to be able to use my 9800 Pro and not have to buy another card. I guess the VIA K8T800 is about equal in performance to the nforce3 250?

I don't think I'll ever go as far as needing SLI, but who knows. How many 55 year olds need SLI - maybe I can be a fist.
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dont get a via chipset; the NF3 and NF4 are better. there is virtually NO performance increase by using an nvidia GPU+chipset so dont even worry about that.
if i were you, and i didnt want to upgrade my graphics card to a new PCIe card, i would get an MSI K8N Neo2. its an NF3 S939, and has AGP. but then, you wouldnt be very future proof as far as video cards go...AGP is going to be phased out within two years.
if you enjoy playing games, then i would spring for a new NF4 mobo with a new 6600GT PCIe card. its a bit faster then your 9800 pro.
 
I hear you. But heck, if my 9800 Pro will last for 2 more years, no telling what will be available then - maybe dual core PLUS PCIe! right?

I'm just trying to build a new box that is more flexible and faster than this Dell P4 3.0 1gb RAM that I have now.

About video cards in general - I really hate that I have to buy an All in Wonder just to get an onboard MPEG encoding engine. I could care less about a TV tuner and FM. Now, if it was a HDTV tuner, that would be interesting.

Does that ATI onboard encoding engine really speed video compression up that much?
 
Originally posted by: Dnepr
Does that ATI onboard encoding engine really speed video compression up that much?
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i doubt it, as long as you get a decent processor. how fast does your 3GHz encode?
 
But, if the video card was handling this encoding job and not the CPU, it would seem to me that it would enable me to keep using my machine for other things while the encoding was taking place - right or wrong?
 
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