What type of performance from 5900 Ultra in an AGP 4x Motherboard?

[ChrisOjeda]

I plan on buying a 5900 Ultra. Later, I also plan to build a new system (6 months from now). My current system has an AGP 4x motherboard (Nforce with 256 MB RAM, XP 2400, etc) though. I am wondering if the AGP 4x will drag my video card performance down and by how much possible? I read an article on Tom's Hardware where a high end ATI performed nearly identical on an AGP 4x as on an AGP 8x board. Any thoughts?

 

[Pete]

There is virtually no difference between AGP 4x and 8x. In fact, there's probably no significant difference between AGP 2x and 8x. Once you start hitting AGP memory for textures, be it at "2x" or "8x" speed, your framerate is going to hit rock bottom--AGP speed has nothing on the 256-bit memory residing on the latest cards.

 

[Schadenfroh]

^^^what he said

 

[Dack76]

I have a 5900 Ultra and it is a very small performance hit. Maybe 200-250 points in 3dmark2001