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Re: AGP vs PCI & Diamond Monster vs G200
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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:58:37 -0800
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On 24 Sep 98 at 2:22, Changhsu Liu wrote:

> Does AGP video card also take up one IRQ?

  I've found three cases where an IRQ may be used by the video card:

1.  Hardware-assisted MPEG playback.
  Not that important to most people.

2.  DirectX video.
  This could be important to gamers.

3.  Bus-mastering.
  It's entirely possible that all AGP cards *must* do this -- I'm not
certain.

  This suggests that the answer to your question is likely to be
"Yes".

David G

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