Help! 4X AGP motherboard with 8X Radeon 9800 Pro?

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How much in performance do I loose when I use the 8X AGP ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
with my motherboard with max 4X?

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AA Arens said:
How much in performance do I loose when I use the 8X AGP ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
with my motherboard with max 4X?
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Not worth worrying about.
You'll be loosing about 2-3 FPS.
 
Not much, hardly measurable (with current software....nothing requires as
much bandwidth provided by AGP8x, atleast not yet, benefits are yet to come)
 
AA Arens said:
How much in performance do I loose when I use the 8X AGP ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
with my motherboard with max 4X?
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Not enough to notice. On a board that does support 8X, people sometimes set
it back to 4X to resolve instabilities and the difference is barely
perceptible in benchmarks with no difference in everyday use.
 
How much in performance do I loose when I use the 8X AGP ATI Radeon 9800
Pro
with my motherboard with max 4X?
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Almost none I'd think. Few games even use AGP texturing, and with a 128 or
256 MB card it shouldn't be needed anyway.
 
Skid said:
Not enough to notice. On a board that does support 8X, people sometimes set
it back to 4X to resolve instabilities and the difference is barely
perceptible in benchmarks with no difference in everyday use.
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I have a question on 8X also. If my motherboard does have 8X support but the
card does not, does it matter if I leave 8X Enabled in the BIOS? Will it be
more stable if I set the MB BIOS to 4X?

Thanks,
Lutrell
 
How much in performance do I loose when I use the 8X AGP ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
with my motherboard with max 4X?
Click to expand...

NONE...

Okay... maybe 2-3fps...

Your performance ISSUE is more of your CPU than the AGP slot... so you
may have a PIII board or an older AMD/P4 board..
 
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