Will a gigabyte Radeon 9250 work with agp 4x?

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Jordan
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Will a gigabyte Radeon 9250 work with agp 4x?

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I think the answer is yes. Having checked the ATI website they say the 92xx line of cards are AGP 4/8x, but the Gigabyte website says nothing other than AGP 8x support. I presume it will work (in an AGP 4x system) but i need somebody else's opinion.

Otherwise I'm gonna buy a Sapphire Radeon 9200SE for $10 less which clearly says AGP4x compatible...

here are the URL's i've been looking at for the cards:

Gigabyte 9250: http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/P ... -R925128DE

ATI's 9200 series spec sheet: http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9200/ ... specs.html

Sapphire Radeon 9200SE specs: http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/productf ... ochure.pdf

The system is a compaq deskpro P800, intel 815 chipset, AGP 2/4x slot.
I'm sure the 9250 will work fine, anybody think differently?
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I think it will work fine, underclocked.
mind, I can underclock my AGP access with my 8x card if I wanted to. But I wouldn't.

It'll run as fast as it can, that is 4x
just be sure to check the specs on voltage requirements between your card and your mobo.
though I think that horrible caveat was more important back in AGP 1x card days with 4x slots.
bp6's 3 x dual @ 533
. . . . 1 x dual @ 466
. . . . 1 sngl @ 400
[( 2 x dual xeon 2.4ghz )]
[( 2 x dual xeon 2.66ghz )]
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Post by Jordan »

I just found out there's an nVIDIA FX 5200 for a few bucks more so i'm going for it. I found spec sheets for all those cards that say 4X will work.
Yay I'm gonna have good graphics (well, better)!
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Post by Dave Rave »

the FX 5200 is quite alright as a vga card
and if it's for your BP6, I think you'll run out of cpu to run the game before you run out of VGA capability.
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