AGP versus PCI-E – test for GeForce 6600

Viliyana Filipova — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:18:07 +0000

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.

AGP videocards of Pentium 4 3.06Ghz

Viliyana Filipova — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:53:27 +0000

With the advent of PCI-E graphics slot standard, AGP remained in the past. But many people use their older machines with AGP – centimentacs some feelings, some are users of expensive workstations or just want to better utilize your old computer to a second cottage, for children or as a gift to friends. In most of the more expensive computers with AGP slots have powerful processors such as Pentium 4 HT (2.80-3.20Ghz) or Athlon 3800 +. Produced at a non-commercial times, often outside of China, the older machines differ significantly in terms of quality and reliability of the new platforms. The only weak point of such a computer is outdated AGP video card. Good video cards for AGP slot is hard to find but still available on the market. While NVidia and its partners and declined to produce AGP video cards after 7th Series, ATI continues to be enjoyed by current consumer video cards with DX10 and SM 4.0 as the Radeon HD2600, Radeon HD3850, AGP, and expects to HD4xxx series of video cards. The most powerful AGP graphics card now, which is available on the market is 256-bit ATI Radeon HD3850, produced mainly from PowerColor and Sapphire. Good opportunity for a quality upgrades and purchase of second hand AGP video card as Radeon 9800, Nvidia 7600, 6800, 6600GT or professional powerful video of a new series of Quadro or FireGL. According to the views and opinions of our customers and friends in many professional applications AGP video cards are better than PCI-E video card. Of course, these conclusions might be based on the exorbitant prices of PCI-E Quadro or FireGL. In this article, we tested 11 different AGP video cards, which we hope this can help in selecting video card multiple users of computers with AGP slot. We participate in the test current as NVidia 6800GS video card and NVidia 7600GS with DDR3 memory as well as professional Quadro and FireGL from different generations.

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AGP versus PCI-E – test for GeForce 6600

AGP videocards of Pentium 4 3.06Ghz