8x apg, does it piss anyone else off?

bloaty

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About every 10th question here seems to be 8x agp related, and I get a just as many at work. The popular ones are as follows.

Will a 8x card work with a 4x motherboard? or vise versa. Yes ofcourse it will.

Should I upgrade my 4x geforce4 to a 8x version? God no.

Is there a performance gain from 8x agp. Almost none.

There have been lots of posts answering these questions but i thought I would help as many misinformed people as can while im complaining here.
Its mainly the marketing I hate here, many people buying computers these days seem to learn all they know about the subject from advertising of some kind. Good for the companies doing the advertising but its annoying as hell.

Marketing will destroy the world, mark my words. Remember Planet of the apes? that was all because of marketing.

Sex is like a card game, if you dont have a good partner you had better have a good hand.
 

rain_king_uk

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i agree with one exception in 6mos you will change your mind about 8x agp

Why? Are they lowering the amount of onchip RAM and using mainboard RAM instead? Or do you think that games will use more than 128MB of textures?