AGP4X vs. AGP8X

An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN :)

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whats the deal with NWN for linux?

[7-Vodka]

I don't like windows.

Heh

[MisterBlister]

I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN

About once a week these days CmdrTaco makes some comment similar to the above which I believe he means as a swipe at Microsoft.
Anyone who has used the Microsoft products he's swiping, however, just view it as him admitting he's technically incompetent and/or he uses really shoddy computer systems. And that is also the case here.

It is _not_ difficult to get AGP4X working under XP unless you're an idiot or running shitty hardware. Maybe all he has for hardware is left over VA Systems junk. Poor Taco.

hypocrite

[stepson]

I can't believe the hypocrisy on slashdot, even after all the ass reaming cmdrtaco takes about it. Is he trying to do this, maybe slowly switching things over to 'Hey, XP is cool!' so that all the morons who switched over to linux because of this site, will slowly switch back to XP because of shit like NWN? C'mon, its a fucking game, and I think it even runs under Linux (or will) and is being ported to the Mac. I'm sure CmdrTaco and the rest of the /. bunch ran out to get Xboxes, even as they come back and bitch about how much "M$" sucks.

I don't run MS Software. I run Omniweb for a browser on Mac OS X. I don't use Office, I use Appleworks, and if not, I could always run KOffice or even star office.

Mods will probably mark this as off-topic, but c'mon, is cmdrtaco's offhand "Look I run XP" comment on topic? Of course, he's not as easy to moderate, I suppose.