AGPx8 vs AGPx4

[Shedlife]

Can a AGPx8 card work in a AGPx4 slot?

[wonderlust]

Yes but it will run at AGP 4x but you may have to be careful on voltages some agp cards are 1.5v not 3.3c

[Shedlife]

ahh ok, n i'm guessing its the same for PCI-e 1.1 vs PCI-e 2.0

[Lynx]

Nope, PCI-E is completely backwards compatible, its just bandwidth they allow, PCI-E 2 has double that of 1.

[Shedlife]

Ahhh, finally some good news 4 me =]

[Shedlife]

Ummm, staying on the topic of graphics cards...my computer has a 210W PSU, various power calculators say my current card (radeon 9200SE 128mb) and all the other parts of the computer @ all at 90% loading will use 194W. The 8400GS requires 196W and the 8500GT requires 199W...the 8400GS should work no problem, so should the 8500GT but would getting a XFX passively cooled 8500GT requires less power than the 8400GS?

[Lynx]

Nope, a passively cooled one means that you need more airflow or it will overheat. Passive ones draw same power. Give it a go, i still reckon that you need a new psu. Especially with a P4 and 4.5GHZ.

[Shedlife]

surely the same card but with a fan would draw more power? As power is needed to turn the fan.

When it was @4.49Ghz :P its just a P4HT 3.0Ghz (that gives out the equivlant power of 4.49Ghz) the clock is at CPU speed.

[Lynx]

How does it give out the equivilant of 4.5ghz???? The power of the fan is minimal honestly. And as for the cpu, can you explain this?

[Shedlife]

Thats what it said on "www.systemrequirementslab"...maybe this was stupid putting this :P

So you think I should go with the 8400GS, as the passive cooling doesn't really make a difference?

[coiler]

I hope your not playing games? LOL :)

[Shedlife]

I would play COD4 probably and BF2/2142...is there a problem? =]

[Lynx]

Thats the equivilant as a comparison of cpu to cpu i reckon. My cpu came out at 5.9 which i think is a bit poor, but i dont hve it overclocked properly.

[Shedlife]

MY brother has a 2.2ghz turion x2 and that came out at 4.9 (that has 2 physical cores) :P and was only 500mhz quicker -.-

But would you say, that a 8400GS should be ok? The power calculator seems to be fine...could u check it out (see what u think) http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

Thx =]