It looks like even a PCI-E 2.0 4x slot does not significantly impair the performance of an HD5870:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...Scaling/1.html
Looks likethe PCI-E 8x slot in my SD37P2 is good enough for a while longer!!
It looks like even a PCI-E 2.0 4x slot does not significantly impair the performance of an HD5870:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...Scaling/1.html
Looks likethe PCI-E 8x slot in my SD37P2 is good enough for a while longer!!
Uriel (23-09-2009)
Probably your right here but TBH, as long as my current computer can last me until early 2011 for gaming purposes I will be happy. I will probably upgrade my graphics card when Crysis 2 is released so it is good news for me that the PCI-E 8x slot on my 975x should be OK for the time being.
I am looking forward to the successors to the HD4770,HD4830 and HD4850 and hopefully these should offer much greater performance in a similar power consumption envelope.
Interesting - how does the PCIe 2.0 4x bandwidth compare to AGP 8x? About the same? I was worried that AGP might be too much of a bottleneck to make a gfx upgrade for my old pc worthwhile, but now I'm not so sure...!
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Well that artical has shown one thing, apart from a couple of real pigs you don't need something as powerful as a 5870
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