Advantages Of AGP x8?

Welp, apprantly my MOBO and GFX card both support AGP x8 or 8x (whatever ;P) so i was wondering. . . . are there any noticable advantages in enabling this option in my mobo? -Acid.

Windows Hardware 9627 This topic was started by acidtwin, 2003-12-05 12:03

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acidtwin

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#118413

2003-12-05 13:03

Welp, apprantly my MOBO and GFX card both support AGP x8 or 8x (whatever ;P) so i was wondering.... are there any noticable advantages in enabling this option in my mobo?

-Acid

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Immortal

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#118414

2003-12-05 18:02

No noticebale performance gain.

Maybe as games require more memory bandwidth it wil come into play but as yet no noticeable imporvement, only around 5% MAX, 2%-3% normal gain usually.

CUViper

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#118415

2003-12-05 18:28

But AFAIK there will never be a downside, so if both support 8x, you might as well enable it. Sure it may only be a few % some of the time, but it should never be slower...

acidtwin

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#118416

2003-12-05 19:51

That's true - I'll enabled it later (don't ya just hate rebooting? ;P)

-acid