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| Can anyone recommend an AGP 8X card that is fully DirectX 9 compatible?
Looking to spend around $75 bucks.
I could care less about gaming stats, etc.
All I do is internet browsing and digital camera photography hobby.
I just want something that is most CURRENT with features, not blazing speed. |
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| AGP 8x is useless right now as it offers no real advantgae over 4x. Also DX9 games will not be released for at least a couple of months. I would recommend an ATI or Matrox card as they are very good for 2D stuff.
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| [QUOTE=ronxp2000]
Can anyone recommend an AGP 8X card that is fully DirectX 9 compatible?
Looking to spend around $75 bucks.
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For $75, no. I believe the GeForce FX 5200 Ultra is the cheapest 8x DirectX 9 card you can get and it goes for $150-$200. The ATi 9600 Pro is another fairly inexpensive DirectX9 compliant card. |
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| The difference in 4x & 8x AGP is so negligable it's not worth spending the money. As for DX9 compliant, that's up to the driver version you have not the card itself. I have and would recommend the Nvidia Ti4200 chipset, I have the 128MB DDR version and it only ran me $135, you can find it cheaper now. There are a number of cards with this chipset and I would definitely go with the 128MB instead of 64MB, there is a BIG difference in performance and quality.
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| [QUOTE=mnosteele] As for DX9 compliant, that's up to the driver version you have not the card itself.
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I often wondered about that mnosteele. A friend of mine has the same card as you. He got it about six months ago and at the time it was not DX9 compatible(out of the box), so now all he has to do is download and install the latest drivers and it will be? Why were GPU manufacturers making such a big deal about their new cards being DX9 compatible when it isn't even the card itself that makes it so? |
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| Hi Cassi, 6 months ago the drivers available weren't DX9 compatible. It's been a number of driver versions ago that they have been compatible, the latest drivers 44.03 are the best I've used yet and work fine with DX9.
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| Thanks mnosteele, I'll pass that along. |
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| Well out of curiosity, then I have a Geforce TWO card has the latest NVidia drivers installed, and DirectX NINE installed.
And it all works.
But is the card just using backward compatibly (DirectX 8) in this case? |
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