On 24/9/05 4:12 pm, "Marc van Gemert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree with Pete that if you want speed you'd better get a faster Mac
> and/or gfx card.
> I don't understand the need to OC a 9200 card at all. I mean this card is
> good for web browsing and such, and a simple game, that's all. For gaming I
> would suggest a card from the X8x0 series from ATi.
> BTW Pete, AGP 8x isn't noticebly faster than AGP 4x and it's definitely
> _not_ twice the performance. Don't know where you got that from.
AGP 8x slot is twice the speed of 4x - 533mhz compared to 266mhz or able
to transfer 2.1GB per second compared to 1GB per second for the 4x slot. So
a 256Mbit card with 8 66mhz pipelines in an 8x slot should be twice as fast
as a 128Mbit card with 4 pipelines in a 4x slot. There are other overheads
which come into play but the speed of the slot is doubled.
Moving a 4 pipeline card from a 4x slot to an 8x will not gain much
performance if any - even though the card may be 8x rated it is 4 pipelines
short of exploiting the slot.
If it wasn't noticeably faster it wouldn't have been implemented - or
the cards so expensive - I wish....
Pete
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