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I'm designing a HTPC to be resonably powerful yet low-powered and
quiet. There are now Pentium M motherboards which look good but which
only have 4xAGP slots. AGP versions of the GeForce 6600 (which has
very nice HDTV MPEG hardware decoding) are just about to be released
but I've only seen 8xAGP compatibility advertised.
Anyone like to guess at the chances of a GeForce 6600 AGP card working
in a 4xAGP slot? The GeForce 6800 cards (which are all AGP) are noted
as being 4x and 8x compatible so I'm hopeful. BTW, I don't want to
use the 6800 cards because they draw obscene amounts of power (and
cash).
I'm designing a HTPC to be resonably powerful yet low-powered and
quiet. There are now Pentium M motherboards which look good but which
only have 4xAGP slots. AGP versions of the GeForce 6600 (which has
very nice HDTV MPEG hardware decoding) are just about to be released
but I've only seen 8xAGP compatibility advertised.
Anyone like to guess at the chances of a GeForce 6600 AGP card working
in a 4xAGP slot? The GeForce 6800 cards (which are all AGP) are noted
as being 4x and 8x compatible so I'm hopeful. BTW, I don't want to
use the 6800 cards because they draw obscene amounts of power (and
cash).