PCI-E is already an established standard for graphics slot without alternative, while the AGP remained in the past. Many users have computers with AGP slot, especially in poor countries like Bulgaria. The main reason for changing the home machine is often need for more powerful video card with Pixel Shader 3.0 and up, especially for games, but often for 3D modeling or comfortably watching HDTV movies.
Marketingovite techniques cheerfully assure us that the new standard PCI-E, providing almost twice as good speed (16x against 8x). However, whether this is really the case?
We will check this with the same two features from the video card is AGP one conversion in the other PCI-E. The models are NVidia GeForce 6600 256MB DDR.
Put graphics in very equal footing, because our test platform is based on interesting model motherboard AsRock 775Dual-880Pro, which are available both PCI-E and AGP graphics slot. Our tests is the Pentium 4 processor to 3.00GHz with Hyper Threading – a relatively powerful processor for finding the potential of video cards.

Tags: AGP, GeForce 6600, PCI-E, video card, Video Cards

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