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Xeno Chauvin
What has PCI-E video got over AGP-8?
Xeno
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Michael Hawes
For the current video cards, nothing much. The next generation cardsXeno Chauvin said:What has PCI-E video got over AGP-8?
Xeno
will be designed for PCI-E and will transfer data faster than AGPx8. If a
lot of people are still on AGP, they will probably produce an AGP version,
but it will be a bit slower than the PCI-E version. The next batch will be
PCI-E only, because the difference will be too great. You can still buy a
Geforce FX5200 in PCI, but not any more powerful card because the PCI bus
would limit the performance too much.
Mike.
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DaveW
PCI-Express has twice the theoretical data transfer rate that AGP 8x has.
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doS
About 50 dollars...
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Ruel Smith
Xeno said:What has PCI-E video got over AGP-8?
Guaranteed future upgradability. The AGP bus will go the way of the do do
bird in the near future. Newer graphics cards will be based on PCI-e for
sometime to come. So, if you think you'll ever upgrade to a newer graphics
card, PCI-e is your choice.