Quote:
Originally Posted by -HAL-  Bought a Sapphire Radeon X800XL 256MB GDDR3 AGP8X for $360 + $40 for Artic Cooling kit, and I could have got a similar (or better) PCI card at least 2/3 of that price... |
I cannot see how a PCI card could possibly be better than AGP handing graphics? I mean the AGP has higher data transfer rates when it is time to move the geometry stream from the CPU to the graphics card and it allows your OS to manage large amounts of textures in off screen memory as well as in system memory allowing the graphics card to access these textures directly in either location (resulting in more flexible memory management) and of course has a faster clock speed and bus pipelining.
In my opinion PCI is taking one step back but that of course depends on the usage of your PC as an end user. Have in mind it is a long time ago I were into the hardware business so I might have missed something the past couple of years though.
