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3dfx Hardware & Software => Banshee Topics and Setup Tips => Topic started by: just_me on 06 April 2008, 01:10:56

Title: Banshee AGP - how much bandwith ?
Post by: just_me on 06 April 2008, 01:10:56
I was wondering how much bandwith the Banshee actually uses. And the V5 6000 - I've seen people making V5 5500s for AGP 4x by cutting into the connector, but. As you can read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths#Computer_buses
apparently AGP 2x has the same bandwith as PCI-X 66 MHz, 64-bit. But I know Banshee was also made for the regular PCI, 32-bit, 33 MHz, which is behind AGP 1x.
My question would be if the Banshee would get bottlenecked by PCI Express x1.
Title: Banshee AGP - how much bandwith ?
Post by: benna on 06 April 2008, 10:24:37
Banshee is less powerful than voodoo2, and voodoo2 runs great on regular PCI; so i think agp 2x is fast enough for banshee
Title: Banshee AGP - how much bandwith ?
Post by: just_me on 08 April 2008, 03:03:12
So you don't know that Quantum 3D made an AGP version of the Voodoo 2 because AGP had 66 MHz and so it ran faster (you needed a PCI video card for 2D).
Title: Banshee AGP - how much bandwith ?
Post by: benna on 08 April 2008, 11:20:23
This card have 2 voodoo2 on the same board, so the bandwidth requested is greater