BSA Starfire Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Well OK, I did this just for fun, I actually still use an old Pentium 4 2.53 PC for regular use, along side a slightly later AMD Athlon XP. 3000+Anyhow, I dug around some boxes I had here and found a bunch of old AGP video cards. I was curious as too which was the better card, so decided to find out. All tests were run on a GIGABYTE 8IE533, motherboard with Intel Pentium 4-2533 Northwood CPU, I gig Ram and Windows XP SP3. I used the benchmark of the era, Aquamark 3 http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=67 This is really just to show how much difference a video card can make to your old PC and gaming experience. Sadly neither the nVidia Geforce 4 Ti 4600(Abit Siluro), or nVidia Geforce 5900GT(XFX), would work at all in my Gigabyte board, I know I used to run these cards fine in the Athlon, but neither play in the P4, just a beep and screw you! Maybe they have failed after all these years, but i think it is just they were both kinda picky back then too. OK, just for laugh's onto the scores! nVidia Geforce 2 MX 400 5248. nVidia Geforce 4 MX 400 SE 6046. nVidia Geforce 4 MX 440 7227. ATI Radeon 9250 Pro 9127. ATI Radeon X800 49166. Pretty obvious which card I'm using right?? The GF4Ti & 5900 would probably have even'd this all out pretty well, although I doub't they would have matched the X800's massive lead(thing is on eBay UK, they all cost about the same...too much!). Mostly I only post this to remind you folks that the video card makes all the difference. But mostly, I was bored, and also wanted to test the contents of my box of old video cards.I figure this is all RETRO enough for Atariage as nothing is newer than 2004, mostly 2001/2002. Best regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 May as well take it to the limit: buy an AGP to PCI-e adapter and a 1x to 16x cable and attach it to a modern card. Yes. The devices I describe do exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatta Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Wouldn't you get limited by the bandwidth of the AGP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Wouldn't you get limited by the bandwidth of the AGP? Yup. You do it for the same reason I put a striped ramdrive on a Pentium 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Starfire Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 Well the GF4 Ti & the 5900 worked it my friends Sempron board, so she has inherited the 5900, good to know it still works, I knew that P4 board was picky. For interest the nVidia Geforce 4 Ti 4600 managed 16,040 on the Semperon 3100+, VIA board, the nVidia geforce 5900GT, 26,340. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Starfire Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 Yup. You do it for the same reason I put a striped ramdrive on a Pentium 2. I'm almost tempted, but I work on this box every day. Best not push it too far. Would be a fun experiment however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 May as well take it to the limit: buy an AGP to PCI-e adapter and a 1x to 16x cable and attach it to a modern card. Yes. The devices I describe do exist. Can you point me to one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I found this but want to go the other way around. PCI-E into AGP mobo. http://www.behardware.com/news/7564/albatron-atop.html Didn't some companies make vga boards that had a pcie bridge chip on them, thus allowing a gf7 or gf8 series chip to plug directly into an agp slot straight away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I may be thinking the other way around. Maybe the only way is a 32 bit PCI slot to PCI-e convertor. http://www.virtuavia.eu/shop/pci-32-bits-1-x-pci-express-adapter-.html?sl=EN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I could then put a gf560 or similar into a pci slot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I could then put a gf560 or similar into a pci slot? Pretty much. As with anything this weird you'd be pushing new territory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Guntz Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Remember to keep in mind that some AGP cards and slots aren't compatible. It depends on the slot key arrangement and voltage. Those old GeForce MX cards suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 yea the MX cards really suck, Find yourself a GF2GTS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatta Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 They're great DOS cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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