Why oh why, PCI

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Serious question now, so no 'because they're crap etc'.

What is the beneift of PCI graphics cards. I have always been under the assumption that AGP was there for a reason, yet the latest nvidia cards are all PCI.

So why have AGP in the first place?
 
First off they are crap! Well to today's standards. Anyways you have the two confused. AGP is the old video card format. Now all of Nvidia's and ATI cards are using PCI-Express. Its a new standard. So really its not pci its pci-x. Thats the basic jist of it. If you want more information on the difference I let some of [H]arder people take over for that 0(^_^)0.
 
BinaryApe said:
First off they are crap! Well to today's standards. Anyways you have the two confused. AGP is the old video card format. Now all of Nvidia's and ATI cards are using PCI-Express. Its a new standard. So really its not pci its pci-x. Thats the basic jist of it. If you want more information on the difference I let some of [H]arder people take over for that 0(^_^)0.
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PCI-Express is PCI-E and not PCI-X.
 
mentok1982 said:
PCI-Express is PCI-E and not PCI-X.
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PCI-X is 64-bit and older, mostly in servers and such. It's based off of the standard PCI but not PCI-e
 
PCI-E is an all-new slot. Graphics cards were nearing the envelope of AGP bandwidth, so they developed PCI-E, which can support many times the bandwidth of AGP.

PCI is the old standard slot that your NIC and sound card and stuff use.

PCI-X is an old, enhanced version of PCI not overly suitable for graphics cards. It's often used in expansion cards for servers, such as SCSI cards.

AGP was created because graphics cards were beginning to exceed the bandwidth capabilities of the PCI bus.
 
PCI has nothing to do with PCI-Express... except the name and the fact that they both are standards for expansion slots..
 
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