Technonoid Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 Anyone know how much difference in FPS I might see if I bought just a new MoBo that supported AGP 8x? I have two AGP 8x video cards, a 440mx with 64mb ram and a 52xx with 256mb. My current MoBo is an intel D850MV with 2.66ghz CPU 533mhz fsb and 1gb of 800mhz rdram. I know my first problem is finding a mobo that supports rdram that has 8x agp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 I just did that not too long ago and while there was a definite improvement, it wasn't all that dramatic. IIRC I went from like 5800 in glxgears to 6300 fps with an FX5900XT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 The improvment will come not only from the 8X but from other advancements that more modern motherboards have. I was surprised at the motherboard-benchmarking article that was written by one of the guys who works at PCFormat here in my office - I never realised what a huge difference in speed a motherboard can have. I switched from 4X - 8X last year (on the same board, swapped my old Geforce MX440 4X for a Geforce FX5700 8X). Obviously they are two very different cards, but when I first got the FX I ran it at 4X just to see if there would be a difference. And there was, but not a huge one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technonoid Posted August 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 The improvment will come not only from the 8X but from other advancements that more modern motherboards have. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, thats what I'm afraid of. I'll end up wanting a faster CPU, the Faster RAM, PCI-X 16x, ect. ect. Thanks for the replies guys.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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