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Darwin

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« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2004 06:45 pm CST »
You tend to learn alot when picking out your own parts to build your own computer...
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« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2004 09:37 pm CST »
It doesn't, but you're talking like 512MB/s vs 132MB/s.  Your AGP bus doesn't share its bandwidth with anything else either, unlike PCI.
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« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2004 09:43 pm CST »
AGP pritty much has direct contact with memory/cpu. PCI has to travel a ways on a motherboard.

Even with the increased PCI speeds, AGP will still be better with its direct connection.
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« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2004 09:45 pm CST »
PCI-X will be stupid fast, but it won't help the rest of your PCI cards except to eliminate share bandwidth bottlenecking.
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« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2004 09:49 am CST »
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XFX FX5200 128MB w/TV-Out PCI Card for $72.00
http://www.gameve.com/gve/store/product ... VC-XFX-003

Chaintech FX5200 w/TVO&DVI for $75.00
http://www.allstarshop.com/shop/simprod ... &ad=pwatch

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« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2004 10:49 pm CST »
Whatever happens, DO NOT BUY THE FX 5200 ! ! !

I got it to "tide me over" and I am finding myself using the VooDoo 4 instead.

The FX 5200 is the absolute worst piece of crap I have ever used.  I had heard terrible things, but I figured they were blown out of proportions.... I was wrong!
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« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2004 11:00 pm CST »
I dunno about that.  Halo yeilded some pretty impressive visual quality with the fx5200.  Only problem is speed.  GeForce3 yeilds much better results though.
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