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Tackling AGP 8X

Posted by Hemos on from the half-a-percent-faster dept.

EconolineCrush writes "AGP 8X is popping up in new chipsets and motherboards, and graphics cards are also starting to support the standard, but is there a major performance advantage over the older AGP 4X spec? According to this review of NVIDIA's latest AGP 8X-enable graphics products, no. The review also covers some of AGP 8X's new functionality, which includes support for multiple AGP ports with multiple AGP devices per port. Whether future games and applications take advantage of AGP 8X's extra bandwidth remains to be seen, but more interesting should be what companies do with multiple AGP devices and ports."

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  1. lack of performance by Zod000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dont recall seeing much of an increase from agp 2x to agp 4x either so I'm no surprised

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    People seem much brighter once you light them on fire.
  2. Nothing new here by gnillort · · Score: 3, Funny

    AGP 8x == small bridge to PCI-X == waste of money

  3. What I want to see is... by trevinofunk · · Score: 3, Funny

    32X! Go sega!!! Then i can play all 4 games i bought for it.

    1. Re:What I want to see is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You mean all 4 games made for it?

  4. Re:shouldn't be called AGP anymore then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    A bus can handle about 100 people or thereabouts. A port can handle thousands of people at any given time.

    You tell me which one is bigger.

  5. Re:What (cool thing) could you do w/multiple devic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >> I use one for email

    Exactly how much email do you get that you need to dedicate a 20 inch monitor to it? Are you a spammer? :)

  6. Re:What (cool thing) could you do w/multiple devic by Steveftoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe he's almost blind from all the radiation comming off of the 3 20 inch monitors he's got on the desk?

    Or maybe he's just an american, probably drives an SUV too. ;)

  7. AGP 8x boxes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!

  8. Re:What (cool thing) could you do w/multiple devic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And 250 pounds of dweeb.

  9. Draw! by qnonsense · · Score: 5, Funny
    • Don't buy ATI Radeons for duel-head! I have an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro and the second monitor has a shadow on it, not unusable, but annoying.
    Of course there's a shadow on it! With Duel-Head, your monitors are too busy slapping each other with white gloves, demanding satisfaction and poping caps at each other at high noon!! With all the tumbleweeds blowing by, how can you expect those poor GPUs to actually refresh their frame buffers!!

    Oh, I get it!!! You meant Dual-Head!

    Nevermind. My bad.
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    1. Re:Draw! by charon_on_acheron · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Of course there's a shadow on it! With Duel-Head, your monitors are too busy slapping each other with white gloves, demanding satisfaction and poping caps at each other at high noon!! With all the tumbleweeds blowing by, how can you expect those poor GPUs to actually refresh their frame buffers!!"

      I wish you guys would stop doing this stuff to me when I have a low blood-caffeine level.

      "Oh, I get it!!! You meant Dual-Head! "

      Cut that out.

  10. Ok, now I'm confused. by Rip!ey · · Score: 2, Funny

    And remember kids: the more monitors you have, the larger your penis is!

    [Looks up to see a single 15 inch]

    [Looks down to see another 15 inches]

    Yup. Now I'm confused.

  11. Re:What (cool thing) could you do w/multiple devic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ah crap, now I gotta clean the drool out of the keyboard again.

  12. Dual Gigabit NICs by vonsneerderhooten · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm envisioning a server....
    Its got 2 AGP ports...
    And a PCI graphics card?!?!!
    Dual Gigabit AGP NICs*...
    Mmmm...Erotic Cakes....

    -D

    *Assuming someone's smart enough to make them

  13. how useful by GunFodder · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...And you can get three times as much hex dump on the same BSOD spread across 3 screens :)

  14. Re:Does AGP offer *any* advantage? by tortap-0 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes exactly, and 640k should be enough for anyone.