VIDEO CARDS

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by emachine, Sep 2, 2006.

  1. emachine

    emachine Guest

    Will direct x 10 videocards be pci express?
     
  2. skater685

    skater685 Regular member

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    well since AGP has not been fully thrown away by all consumers,i'd say 80% of production of direct x10 gpu's will be PCI-E and the other will be AGP...
     
  3. emachine

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    Ok thats what I thought but wanted to be sure that they wern't inventing some new port. You know. Awesome. Thanks
     
  4. Jallan

    Jallan Regular member

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    Believe it or not, AGP is -just now- acting as an actual bottleneck. Looking at current benchmarks, the AGP version of semi-current cards (see, x1600PRO and 7600GT) are showing maybe a 2-5% performance loss when ran against their PCI-16x cousins.

    So, my point is: PCI-E is going to be around for a long long time and you shouldn't worry about a new interface coming around to replace PCI-E any time soon.
     
  5. emachine

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    Thats what I want to hear! Thanks homes
     

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