I have a question regarding pci-e 4X

PCIe 4x cards only utilize four "lanes" of bandwidth and the 16x cards have sixteen lanes. I believe the maximum bandwidth available for each are: 1000MB/s for 4x cards, and 4GB/s of bandwidth for their 16x counterparts.

Most (all?) gaming cards use PCIe x16 cards because of the higher bandwidth (do they even make graphics cards for x4?). If you can find a 4x card, it's compatible with 8x and 16x slots. (All smaller PCIe cards can fit in a larger slot, but not vice-versa.)

You can check out google for more info, or wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCIE

Any card will run at x4 PCI-E however there will be some performance loss, if you put something like a 7900GTX in a x4 PCI-E u will see loss, but if you put a low end card like 7300GT/7600GT i doubt you will see much a loss because there bandwith is less.

he means the secondary PCI-e slot on 965 motherboards, obviously>.>

I had an ATI x1800xl that didnt work with pci-e 4x, however it works fine with my x850xtpe, its a bit of a minefield as to what works.

I read that x1800GTO's would work though, oddly enough. As will the x1600 series. With regard to Nvidia, i have no idea which ones will.

Theres nowhere documenting exactly what cards will work so its best to steer away from the 4x motherboards.

I think i have encountered the full speed of pci-e 4x as playing battlefield 2142 on max, which runs fine, when theres alot of stuff on the screen it doesnt lag it kinda hangs sometimes its really weird.

That's the result of a lack of RAM usually - it has to read the pagefile from the hard drive which is a lot slower than reading the data inside the RAM.

I am indeed suggesting that! The BF2 engine was designed to run perfectly with 2GB of RAM, not 1GB.

256mb graphics RAM is more than enough for ANY game at the moment.

There was some kind of article somewhere that showed BF2 (exactly the same engine as BF2142) needed 2gb of RAM to maintain Consistent HIGH fps. I'll dig around and see if i can find it.

The game wasn't programmed by EA! It was programmed by DICE Interactive. EA just had the easy job of publishing it.

The funny thing is BF2 on full never slows down on my system!

EA still stinks for all their lameass remakes

The battlefield series are my fav EA (published {ty Quantamsheep lol}) games by far atm, hope they do a good job with C&C 3

Be it with 1GB, your hard drive is spinning constantly when it comes to the 'within a second bracket' 200% frame-rate fluxuation. Otherwise, it's smooth

Someone HAD to come along with techno mumbo-jumbo didn't they!

I've started partying for New Years eve already! Going to have a toast when it hit's new years eve in different parts of the world D

17:09 here, already had 5 toasts.

I have to ask, what is it with you people and Eggnog? I find it disgusting!

thats the kind of info im looking for, cause i have that board

I currently have an AGP card (x1950 pro)..Im not planning on selling it, but lets say i sell this and get a pci-e version instead (cause its cheaper) and stick that into the mobo (the pci-e slot in this mobo can only run at 4x), how much of a difference will i see in different games?


So far if im not mistaken its usually the lower end cards that barely see any difference, while the higher end cards may loose some performance. right?

so will it be worth (gaming wise) selling my AGP version just to buy the same thing in PCI-e...even though it may make me some money.

The PCI-E x4 slot can also be used for RAID cards and other PCI-E slots