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Iron_DragonLord
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 Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:03 am Post subject: Quick Question: How do I find my max AGP? |
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I'm looking into buying a new video card and I'm wondering if my motherboard supports AGP 8x, or if it's just my current 4x I'm getting... If it's 4x I'll probably go with a PCI video card (assuming that is faster than 4x?).
It should be # cat something, right? |
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thoughtform
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:14 am Post subject: |
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AGP 4x is better than a pci card AFAIK.
what mb do you have?
you're best off looking up it's specs on the www.
~Scorpaen |
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Iron_DragonLord
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:23 am Post subject: |
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I currently got a GeForce 3 with 64 MB. I can do $cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge which returns something related, but I wasn't sure if it was just the speeds for my video card or supported speeds for my bus.
| Code: | iron_dragonlord@goliath iron_dragonlord $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Host Bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH)
Fast Writes: Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000217:0x00000114
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thoughtform
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| yes but what motherboard? |
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slentz
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:30 am Post subject: |
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looks like that card bus is able to run at 4x. The newer cards sometimes thay are backwords compatable. It looks like that the bus you have is also able to run at 2x and 1x.
PCI is still not as good as APG. If you have PCI2 card slots, then I will install a PCI2 card. From what I have read PCI2 is faster then APG. Am i correct or wrong. |
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