The card will most likely "fall-back" to 4x without a problem.

Tony Mayer




>Thanks for the advice. I was looking around the web to learn more
>about the card and all of
>the other sites I found said that it was an AGP 8X and doesn't
>mention 4X,does that matter? My
>current one is a 4X.
>Same specs and same brand as the newegg one I saw at your url,just
>the descriptions all leave
>out the 4X part that newegg included.
>
>Julie Bray
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Sproule" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Video card/power supply questions
>
>>To be on the safe side, since I don't know whether it really is practical to
>>upgrade the power supply on this system, I would suggest looking at video
>>cards that don't require that much power.  Somewhat arbitrarily, I'm going
>>to rule out video cards that require an external power connector for this
>>reason.  The ATI Radeon 9600XT 128mb is probably your best game card in this
>>"low power" catagory.

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