Video cards

Why are there so many PCI express cards? I thought AGP was the standard.
Why use a PCI slot when you have an AGP slot?

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Blattus Slafaly ? 3 7/8

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:39:32 -0500, "Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 "
<boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote:

>Why are there so many PCI express cards? I thought AGP was the standard.
>Why use a PCI slot when you have an AGP slot?

The standard was changed so video card manufacturers and others could
make more money.

Larc



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You're confusing PCI and PCI Express. They aren't similar, regardless of the
name.

Here's some Intel semi-propaganda on the subject:

http://www.intel.com/standards/case/case_pci.htm


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""Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 "" <boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote in
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> Why are there so many PCI express cards? I thought AGP was the standard.
> Why use a PCI slot when you have an AGP slot?
>
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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:39:32 -0500, "Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 "
<boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote:

>Why are there so many PCI express cards? I thought AGP was the standard.
>Why use a PCI slot when you have an AGP slot?


I use PCIe for my video.

PCI is NOT the same as PCI-Express. The current standard for video card
slots on newer motherboards is PCI-E (PCI-Express) which uses a 16x PCI-E
slot for the PCI-E based video card. On such motherboards, there is no AGP
slot, because it is an outdated slower standard for video cards. (You can
still find a few older motherboards that still offer AGP slots, but do not
offer PCI-E slots.)

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""Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 "" <boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote in
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> Why are there so many PCI express cards? I thought AGP was the standard.
> Why use a PCI slot when you have an AGP slot?
>
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> Blattus Slafaly ? 3 7/8

""Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 "" <boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote in
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> Why are there so many PCI express cards? I thought AGP was the standard.
> Why use a PCI slot when you have an AGP slot?
>

How long have you been in a cave?

DaveW wrote:
> PCI is NOT the same as PCI-Express. The current standard for video card
> slots on newer motherboards is PCI-E (PCI-Express) which uses a 16x PCI-E
> slot for the PCI-E based video card. On such motherboards, there is no AGP
> slot, because it is an outdated slower standard for video cards. (You can
> still find a few older motherboards that still offer AGP slots, but do not
> offer PCI-E slots.)
>
That's funny, my PCChips MB has both plus onboard video.

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KlausK wrote:
> ""Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 "" <boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote in
> message news:47d1b551$0$17328$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> Why are there so many PCI express cards? I thought AGP was the standard.
>> Why use a PCI slot when you have an AGP slot?
>>
>
> How long have you been in a cave?
>
>
Since the bats died.

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On Mar 7, 4:39*pm, "Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 "
<boobooililili...@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> Why are there so many PCI express cards? I thought AGP was the standard.
> Why use a PCI slot when you have an AGP slot?
>
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> Blattus Slafaly *? 3 * * *7/8

AGP is considered an older standard now. PCI-E is the newer standard,
has faster data transfer rate and so many recent mobo's include PCI-E
slots rather than AGP. I have never seen a board with a PCI-E slot and
an AGP slot on the same board, but there are still some PCI slots on
boards today that have PCI-E for the video slot. Get the difference?

"iamsam" <menijoy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 7, 4:39 pm, "Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 "
<boobooililili...@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> Why are there so many PCI express cards? I thought AGP was the standard.
> Why use a PCI slot when you have an AGP slot?
>
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> Blattus Slafaly ? 3 7/8

AGP is considered an older standard now. PCI-E is the newer standard,
has faster data transfer rate and so many recent mobo's include PCI-E
slots rather than AGP. I have never seen a board with a PCI-E slot and
an AGP slot on the same board,

(my reply):
Oh there are a few that I've seen. I know asrock/asus and ECS make them. I
believe others do as well. Here is just one example:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=MB-011-AK