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Spanky

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:53 am
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If you have a motherboard that supports 4x video cards and you buy an
8x video card, will it still work?

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Dusty Steenbock

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:05 am
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"Spanky" <spanky007 RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> If you have a motherboard that supports 4x video cards and you buy an
> 8x video card, will it still work?
>

Sure. It will just run at 4X

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:12 pm
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Yes, the video card will run at half the speed of the 8x slot on the
motherboard.

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"Spanky" <spanky007.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> If you have a motherboard that supports 4x video cards and you buy an
> 8x video card, will it still work?
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fwibbler

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:59 am
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"DaveW" <somewhere RemoveThis @zero.org> wrote:

> Yes, the video card will run at half the speed of the 8x slot on the
> motherboard.
>
That really isn't the case.
The card will run at it's normal speed.
However, it may be limited by the amount of data that can pass through an
AGP 4x slot.

In practise this is not normally a problem unless you buy the fastest AGP
cards on the market and even then their performance is way better than the
4x AGP would suggest.

AGP itself is still a very capable graphics platform even compared to PCIe
16x with the cards currently available.

See here:
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/powercolor_radeon_x1950_pro_agp_re...w/defau
for a direct comparison of an ATi X1950 AGP vs PCIe

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