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12-11-2005, 08:31 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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PC Express x16 or AGP?
Well, here's where you all can assist me. I would like experience from those who have these two video technologies. Which one is better? Why?
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12-11-2005, 08:40 PM #2Web Hosting Evangelist
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PCIE is the slot replacing AGP.
Plus the cards are a bit cheaper then AGP for performance.
Go for the PCIE definently.
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12-11-2005, 09:09 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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Was Stevo said, PCIe is newer, faster, and better. Go with it
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12-11-2005, 09:41 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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This is not even a debate.
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12-12-2005, 03:09 AM #5Retired Moderator
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PCI-Express. Don't even look at AGP. Most new cards these days don't seem to be coming out in AGP anyway.
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12-12-2005, 12:49 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Yeah, that's what I thought. I purchased the "SAPPHIRE 100139 Radeon X800GTO 128MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 FireBlade Edition Video Card - OEM" video card and it works nicely, but seems like it still takes time loading things in World of Warcraft (especially in Iron Forge...if you play the game and know that place). Below are my computer specs:
Motherboard: ASUS A8N-VM Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939
Memory: Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory
Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100139 Radeon X800GTO 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 FireBlade Edition
Case: Rosewill R213A Black/ Red Steel ATX Mid Tower
Supply: 350W (came with the case)
Other: DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive and Floppy Drive
Nothing's overclocked. I have lowered the graphical settings on my video card via the ATI Catalyst Control Panel all to performance instead of quality and that helped to a degree. I'm thinking about either upgrade my memory so that I have 1gig total. OR, upgrade my video card to 256MB or something :/
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12-12-2005, 12:57 PM #7Retired Moderator
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I would personally say your memory is the issue there. Try chucking in another 512mb (or even 2x 512mb) - would probably boost the pcs performance all round
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12-12-2005, 01:15 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I planned on purchasing the same memory stick so that I have 2x Kingston ValueRAM 512MB. This is the cheapest alternative to buying another video card and this was to come sometime anyways.
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