is the gforce4 mx 420 PCI the same speed as the geforce 4 mx420 AGP?

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is the gforce4 mx 420 PCI the same speed as the geforce 4 mx420 AGP?

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your bandwidth to the motherboard is half.

pci bus - 33mhz

agp bus - 66mhz

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Same GPU/RAM speeds, yes.

 

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It'll be drastically slower. Why would you get a MX420 anyway? If you go MX get a 440, it's FAR better than the 420. I think the 420 even has SDRAM.

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i would get the 420 cuz the 440 isnt PCI and the 420 and 400 are the only PCI

 

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surely you have an agp slot on your p3 board?

 

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nope, only agp integrated. i wasnt as smart as i am now in comps as i was then.

 

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ssgohan434 said:

nope, only agp integrated. i wasnt as smart as i am now in comps as i was then.

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i understand... the first computer i built was the same... i actually got a MICRO atx! haha! i had no clue.

 

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dont waste your money on a pci geforce 4. Go buy a new mobo then save up a little and get a new video card. Or get a geforce 2 and a new mobo and overclock the card. You will get the same performance with this as a pci geforce 4.

 

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i tried looking for a new mobo but all of them have 5 PCI slots or more and my current case can handle only 4 PCI Slots. If u c n e mobo with 4 PCI slots tell me.

 

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Hrm...new case?

 

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If you can't afford to get a new motherboard or case then I would just buy a geforce 2 pci card. I tested the mx420 and it doesn't support DX 8. It runs about the same or faster than a geforce 2 ti card. A standard geforce 2 pci card should cost alot less than the geforce4 mx420. In the future I would make my next upgrade if I were you a bigger case. Then an AGP mb and then you can get a geforce 4 Ti 4600.

 

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Some people are worse off than you, remember that.

 

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Penguin4x4 said:

Some people are worse off than you, remember that.

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tell em penguin lol

 

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Penguin4x4 said:

Some people are worse off than you, remember that.

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i wouldn't even be able to sit through the test... youch.