"Jeffery S. Jones" wrote in message
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Working with camcorder video, AGP doesn't matter at all. Or almost
not at all -- there are some apps which can use the AGP video card as
a 3D effect render engine. But as far as general work with video,
that is all 2D video, not 3D, and not only is PCI just fine in
general, unless you need a 2nd video card you can do just fine with
the built-in video.

Yes, this will be more important for video editing in the future as more and
more editing software is made to harness the power of the GPU as well as the
CPU for video effects rendering and processing.
The New Pinnacle Edition software now uses both, and it advertises the fact
that the agp bus is 16x faster which allows the use of the GPU(graphics
Processor Unit) to do real-time 3 d effects preview on the computer monitor.

I am sure more and more software will also use the gpu, I think the new
Premiere Pro does also but am not sure.

So if you are getting into video editing, spend a few bucks more and get a
system with an agp slot, for sure! Don't regret it in a few years.

In the past, Motherboards had all slow ISA slots and only one pci slot for
faster video graphics, now we have all pci and one agp, I suspect in a few
years well have all agp and something fast for video, agp2? agp pro? can
anyone guess?

Thanks,
AnthonyR