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DooMMooD
09-03-04, 04:31 PM
the card i have now is the geforce fx 5500 OC and i have a mobo that only supports agp 4x. now if i had a mobo that supported 8x would my card perform better? would there be a noticable jump in performance in games like doom 3 or farcry?
grimreefer
09-03-04, 04:39 PM
no, 3fps better at most
Lfctony
09-03-04, 05:09 PM
Not even that.
red_star
09-03-04, 08:38 PM
Actually it helps a lot. The games are more smooth if you have AGP8x, especially Doom 3.
DaveW
09-03-04, 09:58 PM
Actually it helps a lot. The games are more smooth if you have AGP8x, especially Doom 3.

Only if you are running it in a higher texture setting than you have the video ram for.
Daneel Olivaw
09-03-04, 11:23 PM
Honestly, don't change the mobo just for agp8x. There is less than a 1% difference (performance wise).

There was about a 2-3% difference between 2x and 4x... so you can imagine 8x?
Pantherman
09-04-04, 05:39 PM
There is virtually NO difference between 4X AGP and 8X AGP. The AGP bus is not the bottleneck at this time. It will be quite a while before video cards exceed the bandwidth capabilities of 8X AGP. It should occur in the next two or three generations of cards. By then, PCI-Express will be the standard.