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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: AGP 2X/4X compatibility? Reply #15 - 31.08.13 at 17:16:39 you could try and get an XP-M2500+ or faster, clock the hell out of it on a KT333 mobo and slap that 5500 on it. Or a little more expensive....try and get a 5500PCI.
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RaptorZX3 Full Member Offline Canadian 3DFX user Posts: 218 Montreal, Quebec (Canada) Gender:	Re: AGP 2X/4X compatibility? Reply #16 - 31.08.13 at 18:19:12 to think i could have had a V5500 PCI for like 60$ on Ebay not so long ago. But checking benchmarks, there is still a performance difference between the AGP and PCI version.
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: AGP 2X/4X compatibility? Reply #17 - 31.08.13 at 19:11:50 not if you run the 5500PCI in a 64bit pci slot, I have that and I will show you benchmarks later on. I can run a 5500AGP and a PCI on there, so the rest would be completely the same. And since the 5500 is not using certain agp features, it is more like running a PCI slot on 66Mhz anyways.
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Re: AGP 2X/4X compatibility?
Reply #18 - 31.08.13 at 20:19:24

ultima is right, Voodoo5 is basically a PCI66 video adaptor.

Theoretically AGP and PCI cards have the same performances if the PCI version run into a PCI 66MHz capable slot. In practice you may notice still a little gap between the two because of the AGP optimizations over the PCI bus due to chipset software (drivers), chipset hardware and/or other factors.

It's a very little gap BTW (unless of a bad PCI implementation in the chipset, of course).

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RaptorZX3 Full Member Offline Canadian 3DFX user Posts: 218 Montreal, Quebec (Canada) Gender:	Re: AGP 2X/4X compatibility? Reply #19 - 01.09.13 at 11:54:57 well finally the board i got yesterday is AGP 8x, so the key is at the wrong place...but i told the guy what i wanted exactly, so maybe he would find something i'm really looking for this time.
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