agp 4x in a 2x slot

Started by nSomniac, 07 August 2004, 06:07:06

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nSomniac

hey there i just got a geforce fx 5200 w/ composite & s-vid tv out and i just wanna know if it is safe for me to put the agp 4x card in my agp 2x slot, it says that it runs fine at 2x but i wanna know if i will hurt the card putting it in there.  Thanks.
Matt
 

amp_man

shouldn't be a problem. I've had my AGP 8x Radeon 9500 running in my AGP 1x slot of my old P2, ran fine.
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secretfj

just beware that old mainboards may not have the enough power output for the new display card, my experience is that a P2L97 (440LX) and a GeForce 2 Pro..the system would just halt with this combination (not enough power out from the AGP slot to the card)
otherwise, everything will be fine
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Siberia

In the past i had a 4x Card working @ 2x APG-Port and this caused no problems.

So letz do it :)