GeFoRce... are you getting the full benefit

[alan]

just a quickie if the GeFoRce cards are AGPx4
and as far as i know and the only boards to support that at the moment are one's with the intel 820/840 chipsets (and i might be wrong)
why spend all that money on a card that is not running at 100% i know it kinda blows you away but surley it would be wiser to wait till you get a x4 board and by that time the GeFoRce would have come down in price?

[rock19]

I have heard it mentioned several times on this page that most games do not even use AGP 2x yet. Simply put, AGP 4x is a technology yet to be exploited except for marketing purposes. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/icons/icon12.gif

Travis

EDIT:doh!


[This message has been edited by rock19 (edited 02-05-2000).]

[RobRich]

AGP 4x has shown no significant performance increases as compared to 2x. With 32meg of memory at the card level, the GeForce usually doensn't have to perform AGP texturing, thus the extra bandwidth is not needed. About the only benchmark that shows improvement is synthetic based texture rendering, which is quite useless in current games. When games actually can benifit from AGP texturing to a large degree, the GF256 will already be outdated.

[UKLee]

Too much importance is placed on things like AGP 4X and Ultra ATA 66 - AGP 1X and 2X and Ultra ATA 33 aren't even used to the fullest possible extent. The only time AGP 4x makes any difference is on the card manufacturer's technology demos.