ThA_FiLeR Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/artic...&aid=604&page=1Benchmarks tested with a Radeon 9700 8x, I was actually thinking of upgrading my mobo for 8x, coz I was thinking it would give me atleast 25% boost, but now I seen this I changed my mind and I'll just go with a new cpu upgrade... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 its not the hardware thats holding it back, its the games. They not built for 8x yet. Give it time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewdatrip Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 Well according to the Lateset in Maximum Pc mag...the 4x agp out performed the 8x...dont ask me why...they seemed pretty stumped as well but frame rate is frame rate....=Drew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggie Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 i got 8x agp 3d Card.. but meh mobo only has 4x.. plus for some reason, my mobo won't allow me to use sideband address or fast writes.. i know its a bit of topic but can anyone tell meh y? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted March 16, 2003 Author Share Posted March 16, 2003 You should be able to enable Fast Writes in the BIOS, else in the advanced properties of your video card... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggie Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 i have both bios and with rivatuner.. all 3d games lock up if i do like enablin sba also.. its not meh 3d card cause that works on meh parents pc.. thinkin its meh crap generic mobo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 VID, MB must both support 8x. For the best usage the game must also support 8x.And drew your right, I picked up that copy last night and read the artical your refering to. Funny 4x beat 8x.Also I was impressd on all the benchmarks maximum PC did, I was very surprised at all of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoop Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 For the best usage the game must also support 8x.thats like saying games need to suport a 266mhz fsb for it to make a difference.all agp 8x does is provide a wider road that can handle more traffic.its a pointless feature to upgrade a motherboard for at this time as no cards can really take advantage of the possible memory bandwidth it alows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 For the best usage the game must also support 8x.thats like saying games need to suport a 266mhz fsb for it to make a difference.all agp 8x does is provide a wider road that can handle more traffic.its a pointless feature to upgrade a motherboard for at this time as no cards can really take advantage of the possible memory bandwidth it alows dude, really. Do your homework. It does matter on the game. And there are vid cards that are 8x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoop Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 dude, really. Do your homework. It does matter on the game. And there are vid cards that are 8x.it does not matter on the game only how much memory bandwidth a card has.i did not say there wasnt any agp8x cards i said it makes no difference to the cards performance wether its using 4x mode or 8x as either the card doesnt have enough bandwidth for agp x4 to be a bottleneck or the AGP interface is a bottleneck.an old game like quake3 with 6xFSAA / 16x AF @ 1600x1200 probably uses as much memory bandwidth as unreal2 @ 1600x1200 does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 Quote from MaximumPC.....Current 3D artwork- textures, character models, and environments - simply isnt complex enough to saturate the 4x bus. That said, we suspect that upcoming single player games such as doom 3 and maybe even Unreal 2 may demand AGP 8x bandwith. In short, AGP specs remain one generation step ahead of the world's fastest games.So in other words if the game demands it then its used...meaning games dont support it.BTW meant no insultment in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoop Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/showfl...&o=0&fpart=&vc=maybe u would like to take a look at that thread where i requested outside help to determine who is right and who is wrong as neither of us was willing to admit defeat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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