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Default Can I put an AGP 8x Video card in an AGP 4x motherboard slot? - 04-28-2006 , 11:59 AM






Hi, I would appreciate some guidance. I have an oldish Intel D850MV
motherboard which I believe has an AGP 4X slot. I need to run a Windows XP
application which requires Directx 9.0b. All the video cards I've seen which
say they support 4X/8X are only DirectX 8.1 compatible whilst all the ones
which are DirectX 9.0 compatible say the requirement is for a motherboard
with an AGP 8X slot.

Can I buy a DirectX 9.0 compatible AGP 8X video card and slot it into my AGP
4X motherboard?

I know I wont get the full 8X performance but for it just to work would be
fine! Thanks.



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Default Re: Can I put an AGP 8x Video card in an AGP 4x motherboard slot? - 04-28-2006 , 01:32 PM






Stephen Clark wrote:
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Hi, I would appreciate some guidance. I have an oldish Intel D850MV
motherboard which I believe has an AGP 4X slot. I need to run a Windows XP
application which requires Directx 9.0b. All the video cards I've seen which
say they support 4X/8X are only DirectX 8.1 compatible whilst all the ones
which are DirectX 9.0 compatible say the requirement is for a motherboard
with an AGP 8X slot.

Can I buy a DirectX 9.0 compatible AGP 8X video card and slot it into my AGP
4X motherboard?

I know I wont get the full 8X performance but for it just to work would be
fine! Thanks.
Should be fine.

Yousuf Khan


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Default Re: Can I put an AGP 8x Video card in an AGP 4x motherboard slot? - 04-28-2006 , 03:36 PM



"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

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Stephen Clark wrote:
Hi, I would appreciate some guidance. I have an oldish Intel D850MV
motherboard which I believe has an AGP 4X slot. I need to run a Windows
XP application which requires Directx 9.0b. All the video cards I've seen
which say they support 4X/8X are only DirectX 8.1 compatible whilst all
the ones which are DirectX 9.0 compatible say the requirement is for a
motherboard with an AGP 8X slot.

Can I buy a DirectX 9.0 compatible AGP 8X video card and slot it into my
AGP 4X motherboard?

I know I wont get the full 8X performance but for it just to work would
be fine! Thanks.

Should be fine.

Yousuf Khan
Thanks, after a bit more searching I found this ati support page which
confirmed your assertion.

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...task=knowledge




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