Another question about GFX Cards

[AmishSlayer]

Right now I have a GeForce4 Ti4200 64mb 8x AGP

My motherboard can only handle cards up to 4x, so that's what my card is running at right now. I'm just wondering how much of a difference that makes. I'm wondering if I should get a new motherboard or not...

 

[Northwood83]

There are virtually no gains from going between 8x and 4x in todays games. We have yet to see if this helps in HL2 or other upcoming games.

 

[dawdler]

There is like 1-2% difference... Things is, we are at to low resolution, to little textures, and just to little load to be simple.

If you play a game with 800,000 polygons on screen, 10k*10k textures at a resolution of 3000*2000, then you would gain by having higher bandwidth and transferring data faster. Now we just dont need it

 

[theHATRED]

Actually, there is no noticable difference between 4x and 8x AGP, it's actually more of a commercial thing. You don't really need a new graphics card unless you're sitting on less than ~1,5GHZ (If you don't want to turn the effects up). If you want to get one of the newest, high-end cards, see to that you have atleast a 300W power supply. The recommended is 350W, but 300W should be just fine.