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| 17962 | 2001-09-01 22:09:00 | What is an 'AGP slot'? Thank you. | Guest (0) | ||
| 17963 | 2001-09-02 00:12:00 | www.kids-online.net | Guest (0) | ||
| 17964 | 2001-09-02 01:05:00 | Hi, AGP=Acclerated Graphics Port. Its for your graphics card. Ken. |
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| 17965 | 2001-09-02 01:15:00 | Pat, AGP stands for 'Accelerated Graphics Port' and it's an Intel technology that's used for video cards only. There is normally a single AGP slot in PCs, which provides a high-bandwidth connection between the video card and the CPU. Why do you need a technology like AGP? Well, today's realistic 3D-graphics require a huge amount of data to be processed, and AGP provides bandwidth between 533 MByte/s to a whopping, peak theoretical 2.1 GByte/s, with the 8X transfers in AGP specification 3.0. Before AGP was developed, 32-bit PCI (Peripheral Connect Interface) cards were the norm. These were limited to a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 132 Mbyte/s. This was deemed limiting enough, and it was made worse by the bandwidth being shared by all PCI devices. Hence the reason AGP was developed, to provide a scalable, high-speed interface for graphics cards, with dedicated bandwidth. -- Juha |
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