9600xt - do I need 0.8v for AGP x8?

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Wayne Youngman

"Glenns Spam" wrote
I just bought a wicked HIS 9600XT platinum and have it in an old KT266A
chipset mobo. I would love to upgrade to an nforce2 ultra mobo, but I'm a
little confused about 8x AGP. I thought that the enable 8x the AGP voltage
should be 0.8v, however, the soltek mobo I'm looking at only has >1.5v
although it claims to supprt 8x AGP. Can I get 8x with this board or not?
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Hi,
yes it will work! There is no setting for 0.8v in the BIOS, and somehow a
AGP 8x card will take 0.8v from the 1.5v setting. It was explained to me
some months ago when I was asking the same thing :)
 
the soltek mobo I'm looking at only has >1.5v
although it claims to supprt 8x AGP. Can I get 8x with this board or not?
Click to expand...

If I understand your question, yes the newer card will work in the older
motherboard, since the AGP spec for radeons is fully backward compatible,
you can verify this on the ATI site. Where you would have a problem is
putting an old videocard in a new motherboard.

rms
 
Hi,

I just bought a wicked HIS 9600XT platinum and have it in an old KT266A
chipset mobo. I would love to upgrade to an nforce2 ultra mobo, but I'm a
little confused about 8x AGP. I thought that the enable 8x the AGP voltage
should be 0.8v, however, the soltek mobo I'm looking at only has >1.5v
although it claims to supprt 8x AGP. Can I get 8x with this board or not?

tia

Glenn
 
Wayne Youngman said:
"Glenns Spam" wrote not?


Hi,
yes it will work! There is no setting for 0.8v in the BIOS, and somehow a
AGP 8x card will take 0.8v from the 1.5v setting. It was explained to me
some months ago when I was asking the same thing :)
Click to expand...

Thanks for the reply - just what I wanted to hear!

Cheers,

Glenn
 
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