1. What is the difference between an AGP video card and a PCI? 2. I have an nVidia Vanta/Vanta LT card on my PC now. How can I tell which is on my system, an AGP or PCI? 3. Can a system with one type ...

BFG Offers FREE Upgrade to PCI Express from AGP cards For a limited time graphics card maker BFG Tech is offering registered BFG AGP Video card holders an upgrade to the equivalent BFG PCI Express ...

Here's something that serves almost no practical purpose and effects only a tiny fraction of enthusiasts, but yet is still interesting to see nonetheless. The crew at OCWorkbench got SLI working using ...

Unlike PCIe technology which has been designed over a shared-memory design, AGP takes advantage of a dedicated memory bus fr graphics hardware. The AGP bus has a width of 32 bits and works at a full ...

New AGP card releases are becoming increasingly rare as it is phased out, making Sapphires latest offerings noteworthy. Sapphire is bringing two new Radeon HD 2600 models to the market, including an ...

Albatron has developed an AGP-to-PCI-Express (PCIe) bridge card called the ATOP, which allows users to use an AGP 8x VGA card on a PCIe motherboard. Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in ...

Well I feel like the village idiot. Despite reading clear, plain-English warnings against 'fake-bridged' AGP+PCIe combo motherboards, I went ahead and bought an ECS K8T890-A motherboard and AMD Athlon ...

Conforming to PCI SIG specifications, the 6325 PCI Express card edge connector allows user upgrades and provides bandwidth support beyond the capacity of PCI-slot and AGP connectors. The connector ...

News.com discusses the recent adoption of AGP 8x on NVidia's nForce2 chipset. But dates this standard and expects PCI Express to overtake it in about 1 1/2 years: "AGP has kind of worn out," said ...

ECS, in the middle of a big revival right now with their mainboard business as they create some fine mainboards and show off some serious engineering talent, are demonstrating more of that engineering ...

A motherboard's main job is to act as a conduit between the various hardware elements that make up a PC. It needs to be able to link the desired CPU(s), system memory, graphics card, hard drive(s), ...

Why give up part of the market? Seems like a shame to. New ATi graphics boards and chips will come in two flavors – PCI-E and AGP, so legacy systems will get some of the benefit of newer technology ...