| Video Cards... [message #87933] |
Sun, 16 May 2004 13:30   |
JadenStriker
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Registered: April 2004
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When a company makes something to last for the next 10 years it is not going to make it cheap, so it is not going to be just like an 8xAGP slot. AGP slots only allow 25 watts of power through their connections any ways, and the video card companies need more, thats why a lot of AGP slot have a seporet power connector. PCI Express x16 allows for 60 watts. Thats a lot of power to work with, to use as data and turn into speed.
Intel is not going to revolutionise the PCI bus for the next 10 years if it is as slow as AGPx8, nor will you be able to get the full ability of a 1GHz NIC card on the old PCI bus we have now, and I really doubt we are getting our moneys worth from 100Mhz NIC card any ways because most PCI now days is 66MHz at tops, maybe 133 if you have one of AMDs 64 bit boards, and even their PCI buses are not good enough to get the power of a 1GHz NIC, they make those on-board instead because they can't.
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