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Old 03-10-2010
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PCI or AGP video card
I have lots of video cards AGP and PCI. is it always beter to use the AGP?
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Old 03-10-2010
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Yes, AGP graphics cards in most cases will outperform PCI graphics cards.
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lots of video cards AGP
Choose the best one qualitatively+specifications wise, if you want opinion on some specific solution, please provide the list of available options. I'm sure you'll get the best possible advice you'll need from this lot here (ref. DBZ).
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Thank you I think they are compairable in quality figured it was better to use the AGP.
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Originally Posted by dividebyzero View Post
yes, agp graphics cards in most cases will outperform pci graphics cards.

pci-e > agp
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pci-e > agp
pci-e > agp > pci

PCI (32bit bus ,33MHz clock) = Peak transfer rate up to 133Mb/sec (32bit x 33MHz / 8bits/byte)
AGP-1x (32bit ,66MHz clock)= Peak transfer rate up to 266Mb/sec
AGP-2x (32bit ,66MHz clock-double pumped)=Peak transfer rate 533Mb/sec
AGP-4x (32bit ,66MHz clock-quad pumped)= Peak transfer rate 1066Mb/sec
AGP-8x (32bit ,66MHz clock-8 strobes per clock) =Peak transfer rate 2133Mb/sec
PCI-E x1 = 256Mb/sec upload/download (512Mb/sec combined)
PCI-E x4 = 1Gb/sec upload/download (2Gb/sec combined)
PCI-E x8 (v1.x) = 2GB/sec upload/download (4Gb/sec combined)
PCI-E x8 (v2.0)= 4Gb/sec upload/download (8Gb/sec combined)
PCI-E x16 (v1.x)= 4Gb/sec upload/download (8Gb/sec combined)
PCI-E x16 (v2.0)= 8GB/sec upload/download (16Gb/sec combined)
Last edited by dividebyzero; 03-10-2010 at 07:51 PM..