Thread Question:

What makes AGP graphics cards far better than PCI video cards especially in playing games?

Posted by: klick
Date: 2005-05-18

Subject: Re:AGP vs PCI cards
Posted by: admin | Date: 2005-05-18

If you want to play games or hardcore game i suggest you to for AGP cards.

The three types exist at present is

1. Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
2. Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP).
3. PCI Express Graphics

PCI is no way better for graphics because.

1. PCI devices had no builtin processor and had to depend on main processor and thus overloading processor, demanding down performance in games. AGP cards has their own processor.

2. The datatransfer for PCI is 33Mhz/133MB per second. But for AGP 1X the data trasfer speed is 132MB/sec (10 times speed). Imagine your PC running at AGP8x, huge improvement in performance.

3. Nowadays, the motherboards manufacturers came with other technology known as PCI Express, believed to be 8 times faster than AGP4x suitable for most demanding computer games. See ASUS http://www.asus.com and GIGABYE http://www.gigabyte.com or http://intel.com for intel motherboards

Subject: Re:AGP vs PCI cards
Posted by: admin | Date: 2005-05-18

The most popular AGP card manufacturers are

1. ATI Radeon http://www.ati.com
2. NVIDIA Corporation http://www.nvidia.com

I suggest you should buy products from them as they of high quality peformance.

Subject: Re:AGP vs PCI cards
Posted by: admin | Date: 2005-05-18

AGP cards also known as "Graphics Processors" since these cards have their own CPU for graphics and dont depend on main CPU.

Subject: Re:AGP vs PCI cards
Posted by: admin | Date: 2005-05-18

AGP8X is twice as fast as AGP4X with a bus of 533MHz,

Subject: Re:AGP vs PCI cards
Posted by: pbu | Date: 2005-05-18

PCI Xtreme Express Interface

Revolutionary PCI Express interface provides scalable bandwidth for multi-purpose usage. PCI-E x16 interface delivers the utmost graphics experience, PCI-E x1interface delivers twice the bandwidth of PCI interface up to 250MB/s for new generation I/O peripheral devices.

Subject: Re:AGP vs PCI cards
Posted by: admin | Date: 2005-05-18

PCI Express is most commly used in built in graphics architecture i believe

Subject: Re:AGP vs PCI cards
Posted by: pbu | Date: 2005-05-18

This discussion should help you:

Anyone Suggest best Graphics Card for games like Doom 3, MOHPA etc?

http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=105341

Subject: what is pci express, agp vs. pci express
Posted by: pbu | Date: 2005-05-18

what is pci express, agp vs. pci express, see: http://www.geeks.com/pix/techtips-031005.htm

Subject: Re:AGP vs PCI cards
Posted by: admin | Date: 2005-05-21

Common Video Manufacturer Sites:

ATI Technologies Inc.
http://www.atitech.com/support/driver.html

Intel
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp

Matrox
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm

Nvidia
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

S3 Graphics
http://www.s3graphics.com/drivers.jsp

SiS
http://download.sis.com/

Common Sound Manufacturer Sites :

Creative Labs
http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/

Yamaha LSI
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/lsi/us/support/downloads.html

Realtek
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dlac97-1.aspx

Sound MAX
http://forms.analog.com/Form_Pages/soundMAX/soundMAXtechSupport.html