Hi guys, me again. I currently have an XFX 6800GT, nice card n all, but my motherboard only supports AGP4x atm. I am, however, planning to upgrade my motherboard this coming June to one that supports AGP8x. What sort of performance jump will i be looking at? Double the frame rate in games, maybe? Cheers, Blighter
trust me it will improve ur fame rate but by double i doubt it, maybe like a third at most i should imagine.
it depends on the rest of your system aswell, you need a good processor and a lot of memory to get the best results from a graphics card like that
Shouldn't he be looking at a motherboard that supports PCI Express Graphics Cards? Last I heard, those are much better than AGP.
raceman: he has brought a 6800GT AGP card so y not just get a new AGP motherboard as he probley doesnt want to upgrade the WHOLE of his system quite yet as that could cost him around £1000 where as a new motherboard would cost him around the £60-100 mark.
That is correct. I'm a poor student at the moment so can't really afford a whole system The 6800gt was bought fairly recently, so i don't really want to have to get another card in June! I'm upgrading the processor to an Athlon 64 3400+ (which is an upgrade from my P4 1.6ghz), so that should be a fairly decent upgrade...I'm having 2 gig of ram in there too (2 x 512mb + 1gb). Cheers, Blighter
Then u will be looking at a new motherboard, u can try to get one which has AGP & PCI-E if u want to keep ur current graphics card and for future upgradabilty.
You can get those? Where!? Tbh, there's this motherboard bundle i'm looking at (motherboard, processor, 512mb ram, cpu fan + heatsink) for £190, which is the reason i'm going for it...i can't seem to find anywhere cheaper (even buying the parts seperately!)... cheers Blighter
