Type of AGP

[Kreon]

How do I find what kind of AGP I have?

4X or 8X, I think

Is there a way I can find it in the BIOS or from the Control Panel somehow

Thanks

 

[Stumps]

what chipset does your motherboard board have?

 

[Kreon]

I have an Athlon 64 CPU 3700+ 2.4 Ghz

I forget everything else, and don't know how to find it...
I have Phoenix BIOS

I can probably find the chipset in the BIOS, but I can't restart now

Hopefully that helps

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

You can run dxdiag or dl Belarc

 

[JustaGeek]

And I believe that the CPU-Z will tell you that, too.

 

[RanDum72]

If its an AMD64 class CPU, most likely your mobo has AGP8x, not unless you are running it at 4x only from the BIOS. Or unless your video card is only 4x and the mobo has to run at 4x beacuse of it.

 

[Stumps]

Seeing as your are using an Athlon 64 your AGP slot will be an AGP 8x, as no AGP 4x boards exist, which shouldn't be much of a problem as AGP 8x is backwards compatitble with most 4x video cards.

 

[Peter]

AGP 4x and 8x is electrically the same thing, 8x is just an extra mode on top of 4x. All 8x equipment must (yes must) be backward compatible to 4x mode.

So if you have at least 4x capability on the slot, an 8x card will work in there, engineering screwups aside.

Now, chipsets. There have been no K8 chipsets that didn't at least have 4x, so I'd say go ahead. The slots are mechanically keyed, so if a card/mainboard combination wouldn't work electrically, it won't mate anyhow. (But yes, there have been keying fsckups as well.)

 

[Kreon]

So it's almost definately 8x

So This video card should work?

Thanks

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Kreon
So it's almost definately 8x

So This video card should work?

Thanks

that video card will be fine in your system,

the 7300GT's overclock pretty good as well.

I recently installed a Leadtek PX7300GT TDH in to my father system, it went from the stock clockspeeds of 400mhz core/350mhz mem to 550mhz core/425mhz mem with only the stock passive cooler and a 80mm fan blowing on to it from the side door of the Antec Plusview case.

It now performs very similar to a 7600GS and can run most game at 1024x768 with out any performance issues at all.

 

[JustaGeek]

Or 7600GS for only $10 more, with 256MB of VRAM - it should perform better:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130076

 

[Kreon]

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
Or 7600GS for only $10 more, with 256MB of VRAM - it should perform better:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130076

I was under the impression 512 MB VRAM was what was needed

I've only got a gig of regular RAM, I dunno if that makes a difference


Would the performance be better?

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Kreon

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
Or 7600GS for only $10 more, with 256MB of VRAM - it should perform better:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130076

I was under the impression 512 MB VRAM was what was needed

I've only got a gig of regular RAM, I dunno if that makes a difference


Would the performance be better?

large amounts of VRAM is only needed for high resolutions.

a 256mb 7600GS will easily out perform a 512mb 7300GT, although you could overclock the 7300GT to reach 7600GS performance....but then again you could also overclock the 7600GS and blow the 7300GT into the weeds.

if you can afford it, go for the faster video card.