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