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I just have a quick question for everyone. i have herd 3 names, and im assuming there all the same, but I wanted to make sure. the Radeon X800 XT, the Radeon X800 Platinum, and the Radeon X800 XT Platinum??? are they all the same thing? people just call them diff or somthing? cuz im going to buy the XT Platinum so i want to make sure im getting the right one.
The X800 is sold as the X800 Pro and X800 XT Platinum for AGP bus and as the X800 XT and X800 XT Platinum for PCI Express bus. The Platinum has higher clock speed, fill rate, inputs, etc., etc. Take a look here:
http://www.ati.com/products/radeonx8...ies/index.html
http://apps.ati.com/ATIcompare/
ahhhhh... IC. Thanks for the Info man. So I assume the AGP's are a better? Or so i understand? ill have to read a bit more.
No, PCI Express is the new bus which will replace AGP. Hot off the presses, limited availability to my knowledge.
PCI is just the regular ports right? the ones that you plug most of your cards into???
PCI yes. PCI Express is new. 3 times the bandwidth of AGP. http://www.intel.com/technology/pcie...PCIExpress.pdf
Better check your mobo Nikon to see if u have a PCI XPress slot or an AGP one.
Most likely unless you specifically sought out a board with Xpress you just got AGP
Im pretty sure its an AGP board. Is it worth looking into getting a PCI express board? Cuz i just got all this stuff figured out what would go together well and what have ya. So if its not that big of a diff ill just stick with this AGP board....
Well if theres a big price difference and ur not gonna really use it, i think its best to stick with agp, since u have everything already planned out.