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| | The ABCs of Graphics Cards |
 | | The AGP bus, introduced by Intel in 1996, is a dedicated graphics connection used only by an AGP graphics card and is supported by most motherboards. |
 | | For example, the data rate for AGP 1X mode (66MHz = 264 MB/sec) is twice as fast as that of PCI (33MHz = 132MB/sec), while AGP 2X mode (133 MHz = 528 MB/sec) is four times faster than PCI. |
 | | As far as system buses are concerned then, AGP would definitely appear to be the highway to the future, especially given all the graphics-intensive 2D, 3D, and video applications that we run on our PCs today. |
| www.matrox.com /mga/theguide/contents/AGPvsPCI.cfm (448 words) |
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