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| Thread ID: 56506 | 2005-04-07 03:04:00 | graphics card question | mickeyc (6724) | Press F1 |
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| 342368 | 2005-04-07 03:04:00 | hi, i am hoping to build my own computer soon and i am goin for the nvidea PCI-E 6800 ultra, i was just wondering if the PCI-E card is btr or worse than the agp i know the pci-e will be able to use 16x but are there any other diferences on the cards or are they abt the same. | mickeyc (6724) | ||
| 342369 | 2005-04-07 03:12:00 | PCI-E is better, but it is also fairly new technology | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 342370 | 2005-04-07 03:15:00 | heh? I would love to see the reasoning behind that statement. Performance wise they are the same. The AGP slot doesn't restrict performance, the entire move to PCI-E is an exorsise in marketing, forced onto consumers to motivate the upgrade cycle. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 342371 | 2005-04-07 03:39:00 | PCI-E won't give you a performance boost over AGP with current apps/games. Exactly how much benefit the increased bandwidth of PCI-E will be in the future is yet to be seen. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 342372 | 2005-04-07 03:56:00 | Im willing to bet good money that we get a new slot to replace PCI-e about 3 years before they get even close to reaching the limits of its bandwidth. Or it may just turn into a numbers game... Where we will be able to buy mobo's with a 196xPCI_E slots,and 196x PCI_E video video cards....... And the cards won't have even got close to the 16x speed of the current boards..... G4MX now with 200xPCI_E......whoooohooo...... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 342373 | 2005-04-07 04:12:00 | The Page (graphics.tomshardware.com) shows hardly any difference between AGP and PCI-E | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 342374 | 2005-04-07 04:58:00 | Ok I would like to take this chance to retract my previous statement. I only said that because since mickeyc was going to build up a new system and I thought that it would be better to suggest going with pci-e to save him upgrading again (e.g.. motherboard) once the benefits of Pci-e become more measurable. :) | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 342375 | 2005-04-07 05:16:00 | Spot on,which is why he should be giving serious consideration to PCI_E. | Metla (12) | ||
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