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8x AGP for Dual Processing Systems?

Posted by Cliff on from the avoiding-the-bottleneck dept.

Paul E. Loeb asks: "I am wondering if there are any solutions out there that will allow the use of an 8x AGP bus with dual processing support. I prefer AMD Athlon MP, but Xeon would be fine as well. I am looking to build a high-end graphics and video editing system, and I don't want to submit to a single Intel or AMD processor. I do however wish to use a Radeon 9700 or GeForce FX, but that would be pretty pointless at a 4x bus. Thank you in advance for all of your advice."

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  1. Instead of AGP 8X... by ihtagik · · Score: 4, Interesting

    why not get a "heavyweight" gfx card like the new Nvidia Quadro FX 1/2000 card. It will provide you with the necessary throuput to handle some serious 3D work, movie editing and give you a year or so of obsolescency protection.

    Or better yet get one of these babies!

  2. Newer Dual Xeon's have AGP 8X by questionlp · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Take a look at dual Xeon motherboards that have the Intel E7505 chipset, which provides support for AGP 8X along with dual-channel DDR SDRAM. The i860 chipset (which uses dual channel Rambus) will only allow up to AGP 4X. Supermicro and Tyan have motherboards available using the E7505 chipset.

    Right now, you will not see much, if any, difference in performance between AGP 4X and AGP 8X...