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11-29-2000, 07:51 PM
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MaximumPC has a good article that addresses a common question that arises often on this forum. Do you really need AGP?
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11-30-2000, 09:57 AM
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Is AGP merely a marketing tool that impresses us with numbers greater than the last. Will the upcoming 8X AGP bus make us all think that we need to upgrade once again.
The only area that seems to make sense with the higher bandwidth of the AGP bus is if you are using a Graphics card with 16Mb or less of memory, or onboard chips that use shared memory. |
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11-30-2000, 02:44 PM
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From what I have seen, the benefits of the AGP multiplier don't really come into effect until high resoulutions are used. Any benchmarking that I have done to investigate this or any that I have read on the net show 2x AGP doesn't really come into play until you get into resoulutions of 1024x768 and higher. 4x AGP doesn't really shine until 2048x1536. So everyone pull out your 4096*3072 res monitors for 8x AGP.
I have a 4x card running in a 2x board right now and I still don't see the need to switch to 4x yet. [Edited by HAL9000 on 11-30-2000 at 10:51 PM]
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11-30-2000, 02:58 PM
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My full wall monitor never ran better with the new Nvidfx 128x AGP vooforce gt6000.
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11-30-2000, 05:46 PM
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errr... is that thing for real? Where can I buy?
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11-30-2000, 08:50 PM
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LMAO Kraken!
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12-01-2000, 09:02 AM
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To get one of these cards you first need a time machine. To get the blueprints for this device go to the National Institute of Time (NIT) in Clinton Arkansas (the new World Capitol) in the year 3055. These blueprints have been released under a GPL. Any modifications to these plans must be reported to Linus Torvalds the original patent holder.
The card can be found at MicroAmazon.worldrulers in the year 2025. [Edited by kraken on 12-01-2000 at 11:04 AM] |
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12-01-2000, 07:25 PM
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LOL kraken
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12-06-2000, 02:43 PM
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ROFL
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12-07-2000, 03:09 AM
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lmao
Kraken has been on a roll here of late... But seriously, your vid card from the future will benchmark lower than mine and therefore be much slower, cause I have a Geforce 256 here. Since your card has the characters "FX" in the description, it's not a "graphics processing unit" and therefore slower than mine, cause mine says Geforce on it. If you contest this claim, hit the forums at MadOnion and someone will be kind enough to explain the error in your ways .Xayd |
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12-07-2000, 05:54 AM
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What the...? What's this? Is Xayd beginning to see the light?
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12-07-2000, 07:53 AM
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Well the gang at pickled onion 2025 rekon this card supports true 3D like no other (holographic cards review march 2025). It can draw 1,000,000,000,000 pyramids per second making it the first teremid card on the market. You are right this card does not have a GPU it is based on the HPU (holographics processing unit)
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12-07-2000, 09:50 AM
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LOL What ever you're smokin' "krak"en, you should share
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12-07-2000, 02:33 PM
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lmao!
Agreed, send some my way. It might make work go faster. |
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12-08-2000, 03:13 AM
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Hal
LMAO tobacco and a few ciders. Just nuts I guess. No do hard sh**, occasional joint but not for a while. What will be is anyones guess and I like guessing. |
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