1. What is the difference between an AGP video card and a PCI? 2. I have an nVidia Vanta/Vanta LT card on my PC now. How can I tell which is on my system, an AGP or PCI? 3. Can a system with one type ...

I have an Extreme N6600 Silencer 250MB PCI-E Asus Graphics card which I would like to install on a Asus P4C800-E motherboard but this motherboard does not have a PCI-E slot. (It has 5 PCI slots and 1 ...

Unlike PCIe technology which has been designed over a shared-memory design, AGP takes advantage of a dedicated memory bus fr graphics hardware. The AGP bus has a width of 32 bits and works at a full ...

New AGP card releases are becoming increasingly rare as it is phased out, making Sapphires latest offerings noteworthy. Sapphire is bringing two new Radeon HD 2600 models to the market, including an ...

Why give up part of the market? Seems like a shame to. New ATi graphics boards and chips will come in two flavors – PCI-E and AGP, so legacy systems will get some of the benefit of newer technology ...

Here's something that serves almost no practical purpose and effects only a tiny fraction of enthusiasts, but yet is still interesting to see nonetheless. The crew at OCWorkbench got SLI working using ...

Conforming to PCI SIG specifications, the 6325 PCI Express card edge connector allows user upgrades and provides bandwidth support beyond the capacity of PCI-slot and AGP connectors. The connector ...

BFG Offers FREE Upgrade to PCI Express from AGP cards For a limited time graphics card maker BFG Tech is offering registered BFG AGP Video card holders an upgrade to the equivalent BFG PCI Express ...

ECS, in the middle of a big revival right now with their mainboard business as they create some fine mainboards and show off some serious engineering talent, are demonstrating more of that engineering ...

Arguably, the mainstream sector has been even more fiercely contested than the high-end and bleeding edge sectors. After the slightly rushed release of Radeon X700 XT, ATI have been on the back foot ...

News.com discusses the recent adoption of AGP 8x on NVidia's nForce2 chipset. But dates this standard and expects PCI Express to overtake it in about 1 1/2 years: "AGP has kind of worn out," said ...

A motherboard's main job is to act as a conduit between the various hardware elements that make up a PC. It needs to be able to link the desired CPU(s), system memory, graphics card, hard drive(s), ...