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Can the 4550 support SLI
Hi,
I have a dim 4550 P4 2.4 GHz (533MHz front side bus),
512MB PC2700 DDR RAM (almost everything else is standard)
installed right now i have a nvidia geforce fx 5500 128mb AGP, which really is sad when trying to play new games. I wanted to upgrade to a nvidia geforce 6600gt 256mb pci-e 16x, cause i realise my AGP slot is limited to 4x and most cards require 8x, so I wouldnt be able to make full use of the AGP model. But:
1. I do not know how to find out the speed of my PCI express slot
2. I do not know if my board and PSU can support the 6600gt
3. And I was really wondering if it can, can it run two 6600gts in SLI (or has anyone tried?)
- thanks, so with my 4x AGP slot, the card would not perform to it max? And how do you find out what type of AGP slot you have because the minimum requirement for some 6600gts are is "AGP 2.0 or later" ?
Message Edited by Caesarian on 11-27-2005 12:52 PM
Brainonska511
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Posted November 27th, 2005 16:00
A AGP4x slot will perform to the AGP4x standard. It won't go any higher than that (such as, it won't run at AGP8x, b/c it isn't an AGP8x slot). It will be fine for whatever graphics card you install.
As for the compatiblity issue, ALL Nvidia AGP8x cards are backwards compatible with AGP4x, so ANY AGP Nvidia GeForce 6600GT will work in your computer.Message Edited by Brainonska511 on 11-27-2005 01:57 PM
Brainonska511
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Posted November 27th, 2005 15:00
1. You don't have a PCI-E slot.
2. Yes they can, only if you go with an AGP version of the 6600GT.
3. No. SLI is only a feature found on NForce4 SLI Boards.
Message Edited by Brainonska511 on 11-27-2005 12:00 PM