Author Topic: PCI-E vs AGP (Read 263 times)

aknimitz · « **on:** March 17, 2005, 09:14:56 AM »

Ok, I've posted another thread in here regarding video cards and CPU's generally. But what I'd really like to know is can I buy a PCI-E card? Is that old technology trying to be reborn but still taking a back seat to AGP? Am I spending money poorly on a PCI-E card as opposed to AGP??

Utterly lost in today's video card world.

Nim

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2005, 09:23:53 AM »

There's a hardware forum for these topics

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2005, 09:29:09 AM »

pci express is a new standard not the old PCI standard. It is replacing AGP so you might want to consider buying a MB and Vid card that supports it.

Makarov9 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2005, 10:12:42 AM »

Right now there is no performance difference between the PCI-E and AGP cards. In the future the increased bandwidth of the PCI-E architecture will be needed for future cards/games. Right now AGP is still a viable platform.

As you said before, for a $300 upgrade I would suggest sticking with your 2.4Ghz P4 and grab a 6600GT or 6800 video card.

Here's a review on 6600GT and also has 6800 benchmarks with it for you to compare:
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041119/index.html

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2005, 10:17:22 AM »

The reason why I would go with pci express is the card I buy can be used in the future MB's . If you just sack a machine and get a new one it won't make much difference but if you keep an older machine for web serving, RAID storage etc then you might as well have something you can use further down the line.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2005, 10:33:45 AM »

PCI E is a gamble something else may come along that is better, and since it offers not advantage right now, not many cards are out for it.

I would not touch it right now.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2005, 10:43:43 AM »

Try this thread.

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145771

capt. apathy · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2005, 02:02:53 PM »

PCI-E is the equivilant (At least as it's been explained to me) of AGPx16.

I've found the pci-e vid cards to be slightly cheaper and went ahead and switched to a pci-e MB and video card. it wasn't any more expensive than setting up a AGP system and from the trends I'm seeing it seems like my system will be upgradeable for longer than if I'd went the other way.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2005, 02:11:22 PM »

Actually, as pointed out in the thread I provided a link to, PCIe x16 is slower than AGP 8x right now. It is in no way equivalent to AGPx16.