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I am in the market for a video card, and I have been looking at Nvidia Geforce cards, I know that my motherboard is AGP 4x, but most of the cards are 8x. Would a 8x work on a 4x, maybe in a different mode, or are 8x backwards compatable? If this was posted elsewhere, I couldnt find it, and if so, sorry in advance :p. Thanks
Yes a 8x card will work in a 4x slot. As you might expect, it will only operate at 4x speeds though.
Thanks, so, say I bought one, it would still have really great quality, just it wouldnt be as fast then? Thanks :)
Right your transfer rate to and from your video card from your CPU etc wouldn't be as fast as 8x AGP would.
Thanks, that's all I was worried about, getting my new card home, hooking it up and it be incompatable. But now I understand. Thanks a lot! :)
Just as long as its bus isn't PCIx you'll be ok. lol
However though if your into gamign, it wouldn't hurt to upgrade your motherboard to a newer one that will support 8x AGP.
nah not into gaming, just video and pictures, my on board Savage just doesnt cut it :p
lol
Then that 4x should work fine for you. If you have any probs with the install or anything let me know.
Cool, thanks, I'll be askin ya for help :p
There is really not a huge speed gain between 4x and 8x... You will notice like 3-4 FPS in a game that relies heavily on the video card, and 1-2 in a game that is CPU intensive... For pictures and video, I doubt you will even notice a difference.
Yea, I read up on the 4x and 8x some, I think 8x had something like 2.2 gbps transfer rate and 4x was 1.1 gbps. I do play some games, but nothing where im going to be insane about speed, Doom3 or somethin, I have an Xbox for that. :p The onboard video is a ProSavage DDR somethin or another, It plays DVD's ok, but I can notice lines in the picture and it's a bit jumpy at times. And I have been wanting an tv-out for a long long time. I've read of a lot of people having problems with ATI when they run WinXP. I have always been a fan of Nvidia. But I have been looking at the Radeon ATI cards. I'm not going to spend more than 150$ on a card, and there are a lot in that price range available. I still haven't decided on one. *shrugs*