Question

[rich3929]

I'm currently looking to buy a new video card, and I noticed that my motherboard only supports up to 4x. What advice can people here offer me about whether or not to buy a new video card that runs at 8x? Is there any noticable difference between the two? Will I be missing out on something major by not having a better motherboard?

Here's my current system, if it helps/matters.

Athlon XP 1800 (Origianally planned on upgrading to a 2600)
1 Gig ram
Geforce 3 Ti200
Soltek SL-75DRV2

Speaking of my processor updgrade, I have another similar question. Since my motherboard only supports a front side bus up to 233 mhz, will I be able to run the 2600 below it's 333 capability? Will that make any noticable difference?

That a bunch ahead of time,

-Rich

 

[Ion]

There is no difference between 4x and 8x currently, future games "may" give favour 8x though.

That 233mhz was a typo? I think you meant 266mhz right? And there is no problem with downclocking the processor so the M/B can run it

 

[rich3929]

Yeah, sorry... I meant 266 there. It's good to hear that there isn't any major problem with doing that. Will I take some huge performance hit though?