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PCIE vs AGP
Any idea PCIE or AGP is better on a P4 HT processor?
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PCIE vs AGP
gataway wrote:
Any idea PCIE or AGP is better on a P4 HT processor? AGP 8X is 2133MB/sec on the video card slot interface. PCI Express x16 is 4000MB/sec and is bidirectional. But the core clock on the GPU, the memory width and clock rate, influence the video card performance a lot more, than the difference between the astronomically high transfer rates in the video card slot. While they are still making AGP cards, the companies making them are careful not to put the fastest chips on them. There are still some useful AGP cards you can buy, if you already own an AGP motherboard. But if you are buying a brand new system, there is not a lot of good reasons to go with AGP any more. You can get a $50 PCI Express video card if you need it, just like you can find a $50 AGP card. And if you are a gamer, the very best (high end) cards for gaming, will be the PCI Express ones. http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/ http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html Paul |
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Your question does not make a lot of sense. The CPU does NOT determine
which form factor of video card you use. The motherboard does. PCI-E is the faster of the two, BUT only the latest motherboards have a slot for it. -- DaveW ---------------- "gataway" wrote in message ... Any idea PCIE or AGP is better on a P4 HT processor? |
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:24:51 +0800, "gataway"
wrote: Any idea PCIE or AGP is better on a P4 HT processor? This variable in itself doesn't matter. Given the same video card family (GPU and memory speed/bus/etc) the performance of the video will be similar enough. What the PCI Express gives you is lower cost and more forward compatibility and choices for modern video cards, and more throughput on the PCI Express bus for other future cards (but at present, a more limited selection in what cards are available for purchase to populate the slots). In genera a newer motherboard platform is more desirable if you had no particular reason to choose one or the other, but P4 isn't a newer generation CPU so we don't know your priorities. So the generic answer is PCI Express is better, but other things matter more than this choice, particularly if using an old CPU (and other parts?) to build a cheap rather than most modern system. |
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