At 07:24 PM 6/30/98 -0800, you wrote:
>On 30 Jun 98 at 14:56, Michael Gerke wrote:
>
>> Please pardon me if this has already been recently addressed on
>> the list, but could someone please explain the new AGP video?
>
>> I am considering an upgrade soon from my 486DX/100 to a AMD K6
>> chip and board, and would like to know if I should opt for the
>> larger ATX board with AGP or stick with my baby AT format and PCI.
>
>> What difference will I see and what about the cost of the
>> associated video cards?
>
Lets not forget other advantages of AGP though, PCI bus only
handles 132 MB
bandwidth while the AGP bus handles 528MB and you only have
one device on
it at a time unlike your PCI bus, and the PCI bus only runs
at 33MHz and
the AGP bus runs at 66MHz and when 4x AGP comes out it will
have a banwidth
of up to 1GB :)
Unfortionatly if you build a lot of dual video card systems
like I do you
cannot take advantage of AGP cause there is only one slot so
I have to get
2 PCI cards such as the Matrox Millenium II, it would be
really nice if
they came out with boards that had 2 AGP slots but I don't
think the AGP
architecture supports such things, anybody?

   ...James Kerr