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Offline clowd
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PCI-Express or AGP?
« on: October 10, 2005, 08:08:48 PM »
Which is better,  PCI-Express or AGP?

And if it matters I want to get an NVIDIA graphics card
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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2005, 08:15:54 PM »
PCI-Express is newer technology

although no game has yet to saturate 8x AGP bandwidth
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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2005, 08:34:58 PM »
See what your motherboard has, download CPU-Z and click the mainboard tab.

It\'ll either give you the specs for AGP or PCI-e
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« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2005, 09:11:48 PM »
Well the thing is I\'m looking to buy a computer right now THX that has a PCI-Express slot.  I\'m on a pretty crappy computer currently.

The last computer had (something in it burned out and it wont turn on but it dont matter since it is a 1.3ghz and ageIII needs 1.4ghz) a normal PCI slot and a AGP slot.  I was told AGP was better for graphics than PCI and it worried me this new computer only had a PCI slot.  But it is PCI-Express,  which mm said is new technology,  so I should be fine,  right?
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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2005, 11:45:11 PM »
PCI-E is to new imo, i\'d go AGP. Simply because while i was in the RMA department at mmt. We got 90% returns on PCI-E cards over AGP.        That was about 3 months ago.
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« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2005, 03:49:33 AM »
go pci-e

nvidia isnt making AGP cards anymore after the 7800 series

ati is barely supporting it
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« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2005, 04:38:51 AM »
yeah, the worst thing you could do is buy AGP now... nobody is making cards for that slot anymore
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« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2005, 05:49:56 AM »
PCI-Express.

It\'s not "too new".. AGP is "too old". Soon to be unsupported, killing your upgrade path.
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« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2005, 10:18:05 AM »
There\'s also the fact that PCI-express motherboards can handle bandwidth better and more efficiently.  Nice if you have several devices that are all doing something.
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« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2005, 11:04:25 PM »
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PCI-Express.

It\'s not "too new".. AGP is "too old". Soon to be unsupported, killing your upgrade path.


 u work in RMA do u? it\'s to new, it\'s got problems and i saw lots of them.  If he plans on updating his gpu every 6 months. Sure go PCI-E but he\'ll  most likely be updating every few years, by then you might as well get a new mobo/cpu too.
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« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2005, 12:00:31 AM »
Yeah, get a PCI-E mobo. It\'s questionable if the newest vga cards in about half a year will even release as a agp version.
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« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2005, 12:05:42 AM »
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u work in RMA do u? it\'s to new, it\'s got problems and i saw lots of them.  If he plans on updating his gpu every 6 months. Sure go PCI-E but he\'ll  most likely be updating every few years, by then you might as well get a new mobo/cpu too.

Soully it\'ll help you\'re argument if you post some links on the matter, even if it\'s complaints en masse on a geek board.  This is the first time I\'ve heard of it.
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« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2005, 02:20:54 AM »
post links?   i worked in a RMA department and had shit loads of pci-e cards returned. We were selling agp/pci-e at a 1:1 ratio.  That speaks for itself.
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« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2005, 03:38:37 AM »
i dont think so many people returned them as something was wrong with them

but they just bought pci-e and didnt realize they need agp

easier to say "it doesnt work", then "im a moron"
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« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2005, 04:22:22 AM »
point is if you want the best cards available from Nvidia or ATi then you MUST HAVE A PCI-E SLOT.  Although I too do question how much better PCI-e is than AGP, it just dosen\'t make sense to buy a system based on something that\'s about to be phased out.
« Last Edit: October 12, 2005, 04:23:41 AM by JBean »
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