AGP 4x Bottleneck?

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My friend has just purchased an X850 Pro AGP, and i am wondering how much perforamnce he is loosing with his AGP 4x Motherboard, if any?

He has a Server motherboard eATX, and its like ~150-250 for him to upgrade to AGP 8X motherboard, or even a PCI-E motherboard.
 
if he has a agp 4x mobo, its more than likely that he has a processor that will bottleneck an x850 anyway :)
 
Nakamori said:
if he has a agp 4x mobo, its more than likely that he has a processor that will bottleneck an x850 anyway :)
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Yes...Something along the lines of a AMD Duron? :D
 
Nakamori said:
if he has a agp 4x mobo, its more than likely that he has a processor that will bottleneck an x850 anyway :)
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Exactly. I just got the X850XT that is on sale at Microcenter. I am putting together an IC7-G, 3.0c, 1GB Hyper-X combo and will use the X850XT. However, I had to try the new X850XT out in my old Dell 2.53b AGP 4x setup first. The Dell is so CPU limited, it causes benchmarks to be lower than what the X850XT should do. I must say, it much much more powerful than my 9800 Pro that I just took out. I think if I get the 3.0c combo running and clocked at 3.6 or better, I will see much better performance than what I have now with this crap motherboard and processor.
 
V99 said:
Yes...Something along the lines of a AMD Duron? :D
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He has Dual Xeon 2.4GHz CPUs. Like i said, it is a server motherboard socket 603/604.
 
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