AGP vs. PCI express

MikeyLikesItSI · Oct 12, 2004

Not exactly sure if this is the best place to ask this, but it is relivent to motherboards

The board that i have now has an AGP 8x slot, and it looks an AWFUL lot like the pci express x16 slot. Can you run an AGP card in a PCI express 16x slot? or do you need a dedicated pci express card?

meionm · Oct 12, 2004

you can't run pci express card in agp slot as well you can't run agp card in pci express slot,

aaaaaaaaaa · Oct 12, 2004

MikeyLikesItSI said:
Not exactly sure if this is the best place to ask this, but it is relivent to motherboards

The board that i have now has an AGP 8x slot, and it looks an AWFUL lot like the pci express x16 slot. Can you run an AGP card in a PCI express 16x slot? or do you need a dedicated pci express card?

Until games become 2x as complicated as farcry, PCI express wont shine.
PCI<AGP<PCI EXPRESS
in bandwith, not pure speed, other components usually bottleneck it.

MikeyLikesItSI · Oct 12, 2004

so then to go to a socket 775 mobo with 915 chipset, i might as well factor in the cost of a pci express video card.....

meionm · Oct 12, 2004

pci express doesn't offer more than agp does,

FyreDaug · Oct 12, 2004

meionm said:
pci express doesn't offer more than agp does,

True dat. Find benchmarks, usually pcie pulls ahead a little, but nothing noticable at all. Save your money, buy DDRII if you need an upgrade. (plus the motherboard ofcourse)

meionm · Oct 12, 2004

I wouldn't switch Lga 775 till intel release cpu with 1066 fsb, as goes pci express indead it offers some improvement in some benchmark and 1% improvement doesn't justfy system change,

ap673 · Oct 12, 2004

I'm guessing that as soon as next year we might see some games that can break the 8x agp bandwidth ceiling. I know for sure that new unreal engine, unreal3? will use the extra badwidth. For people that dont change computers every 6 months, u try to future proof as much as possible. At the end of this year im upgrading to 90nm s939 A64/NF4/PCI-E 6800GT, and that should hold me til next year.

FyreDaug · Oct 12, 2004

Doesnt doom/hl2 require more bandwidth than unreal? (I guess that doesnt count the next unreal engine, but if your doing that, count doom4/hl3 then)

Stratcat · Oct 13, 2004

meionm said:
I wouldn't switch Lga 775 till intel release cpu with 1066 fsb, as goes pci express indead it offers some improvement in some benchmark and 1% improvement doesn't justfy system change,

Got that right, IMO.

But I may consider an LGA775 i865/875 hybrid, like the Asus P5G800 or DFI 875P-T. But untill they can get a solid 'freq lock' on PCIe16, I don't see any point in the high cost of switching to a 9.xx chipset mobo.

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