AGP 4x?

[Nixona]

I've got an Abit BF6 with 2x agp. I was looking at the newer Nvidia Geforce2 cards, and they're 4x. Am I going to need a new motherboard? I know these things are kicking ***, so I'm pretty interested.

[Jeffy]

GeForce's are backward compatible on agp 2x and I also think 1x also. There is no big difference in agp 2x and 4x currently on the GeForce's. I saw the benchmarks and there is no differnce at all. Only on 1x there is a performance difference. Fast writes is a new thing on geforces and only works on agp 4x but it doesn't really improve performance much and brings many stability and compatibility problems. I think you shouldn't get a new mobo cause agp 4x hasn't been taking advantage of yet and when it does, there's agp 8x!!!

[OuTpaTienT]

I have a TNT2 that's 4x capable. If I switch between 2x and 4x I see absolutely NO diffence in benchmark scores. 4x is still all marketing hype. Don't worry about it.