 Which Is The Better Choice, AGP or PCI--E |
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 Jul 11 2005, 02:39 AM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member  Group: Members Posts: 1,183 Joined: 24-September 04 Member No.: 1,245  |
Hello everyone, i just want to have your comments here cause we own a computer cafe and we are going to upgrade from AGP to PCI-EXPRESS... is PCI-EXPRESS good? Is there any bugs in PCI-EXPRESS...
Please comment out on PCI-EXPRESS... Thanks! 
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Jul 11 2005, 10:50 AM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: 17-June 05 From: Slovenia Member No.: 8,341 |
That depends for what the computer will be used. In a coputer caffe I guess coputers are mostly used for internet searching and chatting so you don't need really good Graphic cards for them. If you're using them for playing games than would be good to upgrade them to PCI-Express.
You can see by the name that they're faster than AGP, you can even install two graphich cards together on a computer that owns PCI-Express (I think that also on AGP but I'm not shure about that). Anyway, it's faster and can use better all it's functions (of the graphic card). What about the bugs I don't know if they are. All I know is that you have to buy a main plate with PCI-Express and an appropriate graphic card compatible with that. And of course install drivers (should be with the graphic card). I haven't tryed PCI-express by myself, but I've read some things about it and I can tell you that is faster then AGP. But everything depends for what the computer would be used. Just for the internet there's no worth in that upgrading. |
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Jul 12 2005, 04:32 AM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 14-June 05 Member No.: 8,208 |
baffo: with the 2 graphics cards I think you were meaning SLI-based cards? (PCI-E...nVidia rocks)
As for PCI-E itself of what I've heard (a year or so ago  ) is quite unstable and is actually slower than the 8x AGP (Yes, just 8x, not 8x pro). But the choice is really up to you  .....The motherboard IS and REMAINS the bottleneck
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Jul 12 2005, 03:41 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: 30-January 05 Member No.: 3,507 |
For me better AGP, but baffo was right
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Jul 15 2005, 07:57 AM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 15-July 05 Member No.: 9,453 |
i would preffer PCI E thou haha..not that i get to choose now as my comp dont hv AGP slots neway ..
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Jul 15 2005, 06:39 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 15-July 05 Member No.: 9,448 |
From what a friend tells me is that PCI is a more fancy video card, thus more expensive. The sad part is, my computer doesn't have an AGP port
 so I'm stuck with only PCI (how I don't have an AGP port is beyond me )
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Jul 22 2005, 03:03 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 22-July 05 Member No.: 9,735 |
Hehe, Ages past, there wasnt such a thing as AGP, there was good old PCIMA graphics cards. Ah good times, Personally im running PCI-E in here and there are no hitches, its running every game on high settings, and doing the business
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Jul 23 2005, 04:04 PM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 4,883 |
 PCI-Express is capable of speed up to 4000 MB/s, twice of AGP 8x if I didn't get the info wrong. And PCIe has 16 processing lanes to spilt up work and process faster. You may like to check this sites for more info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express http://www.directron.com/expressguide.html |
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Jul 23 2005, 11:05 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 310 Joined: 9-February 05 From: Italian Member No.: 3,677 |
I Hate PCI-EXPRESS
I think AGP Is better If I Choose -- I Chose AGP for VGA Carts End IF hihi Like visualBasic |
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