pci-e / agp?

No, they are different.

Some motherboards contain both PCI-Express and AGP slots, and I've heard that Albatron either is making or has made an adapter to allow AGP cards to be used in PCI-Express slots.

PCI-Express is expected to replace AGP as the dominant graphics interface.

By the way, since you're the one who suggested the color scheme, see what you think of these:

http://www.freedomsiege.com/sunset_1600.jpg
http://www.freedomsiege.com/dawn_1600.jpg

Those are nice wallpapers.

lickerchew,

can i ask if you're wondering this because you want a new motherboard or new vga?

colossus72 [c72]
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Are PCI-E and AGP cards different? Yes.
Will PCI-E eventually replace AGP? Yes.
Is there a significant difference in performance while using a PCI-E card? If there is, I haven't seen it.

Check out these links:

http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/video_cards/asus/x800xt/0
01.htm

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/vectors/e
n/2004_pciexpress?c=us&l=en&s=corp

And one sweeeeeet MOBO:
http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20051004/one_gigabyt
e_motherboard_four_graphics_cards-01.html

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Narco
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agp is great but what Flintsilver said yeah, pci-e will replace apg sooner or later

~sbbath

pci-e can run two vga with nvidia chipsets that have the feature.

colossus72 [c72]
Customize.org Staff
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PCI-E has already started to replace AGP. Didn't ATI recently announce that their latest AGP card will be their last as they are moving exclusively to PCI-E?

those are looking really nice flint, especially like dawn, yummy!

tab, I'm thinking of upgrading my pc with a new cpu + mobo, but my gfx card is still pretty good so dont want to fork out for another one just because of pci-e :)

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www.mutanthands.com

ok to put the two into perspective, agp is slow. it runs at a blazing 66mhz compared to the 133mhz of pci-e.
as well agp is only able to move 2100 MB/s max, and no more, where as pci-e is able to do 4000 MB/s in parallel mode and 8000 MB/s in serial mode.

Stay Frosty!

i wasnt asking which is better, i know pci-e is much better than pci, i was asking if it was backwards compatible, so i dont have to fork out for a new graphics card when i upgrade!

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www.mutanthands.com

there is hardly any difference right now between agp and pci-e. none the less pci express is 16x.

as you can see in the review hardly any difference.

http://www.tcmagazine.info/articles.php?action=show&id=127&p
erpage=1&pagenum=11


But that doesnt say AGP is better! PCI-E is obviously faster and will be over time.