agp or pci...

Martingale00

Martingale00

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AGP over PCI. PCI-Express is pretty much becoming the standard now though. If you have a PCI-E slot on your motherboard that's the way to go.
 
Geoff

Geoff

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There are basically 3 types of busses used for video cards today; PCI, AGP, and PCI-E (there are others, but not used much).

PCI is the slowest of the three, has the lowest bandwidth, all the PCI ports share bandwidth, and they dont have many modern/high performing PCI cards out.

AGP is much faster then PCI-E, but is becoming obsolete with PCI-E video cards. However you can find high end and modern cards for the AGP bus, such as the 7800GS and x1950PRO.

PCI-E is the fastest, with double the bandwidth of AGP 8x and has the newest video cards, and DirectX10 cards as well.


If you are building a new system, deffinitely go with PCI-E.
 
AcetheGamer

AcetheGamer

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tnx...im considering buying a pci-e but i doubt whether it would be an nvidia or ati...which do you guys think is the best??
 
Geoff

Geoff

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Right now nVidia is the best with their 8xxx series, but ATI will soon be coming out with cards that should outperform nVidia.
 
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Schonza

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AcetheGamer said:
and can anyone tell me about celeron processors....the goodies and the cons..
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Celerons are pretty much your budget processors, for those who need something for like, document processing, internet surfing etc etc. Low end processors.

If you are planning on building a new system, try to lean towards a Core 2 Duo processor if you plan on gaming. They are fantastic.

AcetheGamer said:
guys...hw many hard drives can a standard mobo hold?
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Depends on the mobo. Most hold about 4-8 through Serial ATA drives nowadays, and they only have 1 IDE channel for your optical drives mainly.
 
Z

zaroba

Member
you know this for a fact...how?
have you traveled into the future and tested them?

if not, don't make assumptions.
 
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