Pissed and have a question

pbsk8er03 · 03-28-2005, 08:52 PM

Ok well I ordered a 6600 GT video card and Im very happy. But, by accident, i got the AGP 8x instead of PCI-E. The Agp fits in and everything but i was wondering if PCI was faster. Somewhere I heard that PCI is much faster so now Im mad that i bought the wrong thing and I cant return it.So is PCI much better?

**Cromewell** · 03-28-2005, 09:01 PM

First the bad news: PCIe is faster (potentially)
Now the good news: PCIe isn't really faster because the extra bandwidth isn't used yet
Now the really good news: Your board doesn't support PCIe so you did buy the right card

pbsk8er03 · 03-28-2005, 09:03 PM

Ok, well I guess thats good! Good thing i didnt get PCI then. Would you notice a huge diffrence with a PCI card?

mgoldb2 · 03-28-2005, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by pbsk8er03

Ok, well I guess thats good! Good thing i didnt get PCI then. Would you notice a huge diffrence with a PCI card?

You will notice no difference between a pci-e 6600GT and a agp 6600GT. The agp slot it not a limiting factor for that card or any card I know of that currently for sale so having pci-e has no benfit yet. In the future there might be benfits to pci-e cards.

pbsk8er03 · 03-28-2005, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mgoldb2

You will notice no difference between a pci-e 6600GT and a agp 6600GT. The agp slot it not a limiting factor for that card or any card I know of that currently for sale so having pci-e has no benfit yet. In the future there might be benfits to pci-e cards.

Ok, sweet. Thats a load off my shoulders.

nevinenigma · 03-28-2005, 11:04 PM

PCI and PCI-E are different, if you bought an agp card for your agp motherboard you're fine, if you would have bought a PCI-E version of the card it wouldnt have worked in a pci slot(regular PCI slots are slower than agp and pci-e)

Blue · 03-29-2005, 07:05 AM

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Would you notice a huge diffrence with a PCI card?

They had to go and make things more confusing eh? hehe. As already suggested, there is a difference between PCI and PCI-E so when your talking about PCI Express it's best not to refer to it as PCI. Also you would not really notice any difference between the two at the moment but give it another generation of cards or maybe two and yes I'm sure you'll see the difference.

**Praetor** · 03-30-2005, 05:48 PM

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First the bad news: PCIe is faster (potentially)

The PCIe cards have their memory clocked 50MHz faster

**Cromewell** · 03-30-2005, 09:30 PM

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The PCIe cards have their memory clocked 50MHz faster

I didn't mention card mechanics

I was talking about the interface speed

03-28-2005, 08:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
pbsk8er03 Silver Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 207	Pissed and have a question Ok well I ordered a 6600 GT video card and Im very happy. But, by accident, i got the AGP 8x instead of PCI-E. The Agp fits in and everything but i was wondering if PCI was faster. Somewhere I heard that PCI is much faster so now Im mad that i bought the wrong thing and I cant return it.So is PCI much better? __________________ COMING SOON: DFI lan party NF4 Opteron 165 dual core XP-120 cooler 520w OCZ Powerstream Crucial ballistix 2GB(2x1GB) eVGA 7800GTX x-fi xtrememusic Sony FW900 monitor

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pbsk8er03 Silver Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 207	Ok, well I guess thats good! Good thing i didnt get PCI then. Would you notice a huge diffrence with a PCI card? __________________ COMING SOON: DFI lan party NF4 Opteron 165 dual core XP-120 cooler 520w OCZ Powerstream Crucial ballistix 2GB(2x1GB) eVGA 7800GTX x-fi xtrememusic Sony FW900 monitor

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03-28-2005, 11:04 PM	#6 (permalink)
nevinenigma Silver Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 119	PCI and PCI-E are different, if you bought an agp card for your agp motherboard you're fine, if you would have bought a PCI-E version of the card it wouldnt have worked in a pci slot(regular PCI slots are slower than agp and pci-e)