when i started building my new computer, i noticed that my x800xl died on me and i basically couldn't be bothered to see if it really was broken seeing as its a freaking old card and there would be no point anyway.... i got a mobo with agp*8 and a pci-e*4. so my current best choice would ofcourse be an agp card (the gainward perhaps). but getting an sli or crossfire mobo would be best in the long rung, only i wont be using the pc after the summer as going away to boarding school and will probably get laptop....so i really cant decide as i have to get a job to get the sli or crossfire mobo and that will take 2 weeks at least to get a decent £50+ one...so any thoughts on my dialemma would be interesting, post away!

You can buy a PCIe x16 card and pop it into a PCIe x4 slot, might need to mod the slot a bit, but it'll run it, just at PCIe x4 speds instead of PCIe x16

yer but wouldnt i get like a bottle neck or something? or be wasting a good graphics card?

Well, put it this way, PCIe x16 and x8 makes no difference on a 8800, so if you're running something slower then an 8800 (which you porlly will) then no, you most likely won't see that huge of a bottleneck, and better buy a PCIe card and then just swap it into your shiny new PCIe mobo, then buy an AGP card, and then buy another card for PCIe when you buy new mobo.

okay i'll do that then :P

Can be marked as resolved then