| From: | Joseph Fenton |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 07:35:30 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
Voytek Laniewski wrote:
>
> Is there an URL that discusses pro's and con's of AGP vs improved/current
> PCI?
>
More than likely, but I don't know off hand. Start in the newgroups and
then go from there. One pro - wide PC support meaning the latest and
greatest is now on AGP first and PCI second (if at all in some cases now).
Even the latest Macs now use AGP; they had to make their own custom
host bridge since Motorola doesn't make an AGP host bridge yet.
A minus is that Intel owns AGP; you have to pay for the priviledge
of using it.
One pro for PCI, it's still an industry standard and is constantly
being updated to remain the standard; most cards are still made
in PCI form. Also, apart from video, other cards are exclusively
PCI. If you have to choose between the two (can't have both
for some reason), you ALWAYS pick PCI. One con, the latest
and greatest video cards are usually AGP first now, and sometimes
the PCI version comes out later or has got all the features. The main
reason is that AGP can do better data transfers; that isn't always
the case and a good 66MHz PCI card can give AGP a run for the
money.