to know which graphics card slot your computer has. There are two main types: PCI Express (PCIe) and AGP. About five years ago, the older AGP slot on desktop computers started to be replaced with PCIe slots instead. Once you’ve determined whether you have...

publishing packages can use as fast a video card as you can afford. The plummeting price of memory has made it reasonable to consider 256MB of RAM a minimal level of memory for a new graphics card, and 512MB a very worthwhile upgrade. The additional memory...

The MR 9800's Details Spell The End Of The AGP Line, Continued. desktop graphics ambitions. ATi's high-end mobile graphics processor, the Mobility Radeon 9800 (M18), on paper, offers superior specs on all fronts. With eight pixel pipelines and a 256 bit memory...

• -The MR 9800's Details Spell The End Of The AGP Line

Mirage 2, supported with up to 128 MB shared DDR-Memory; 760GX with AGP 8x graphics interface and integrated graphics core Mirage 2, supported with up to 128 MB shared DDR-Memory; 760 with AGP 8x graphics interface and integrated graphics core Mirage 2, supported...

3D application that can profit measurably, not to mention tangibly, from the bandwidth differential that PCIe offers over AGP. If you examine the PCIe interfaces in terms of energy requirements, a theoretical advantage does appear compared to AGP, because with...

there is room for most MicroATX motherboards in the interior. Using the included angle adapter at least one AGP or one PCI card can be installed. However, that presents the user with a problematic choice: AGP graphics with video-out or a TV or DVB-T tuner....

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cost you at least $300 [all prices are from PriceGrabber], but you can probably save expense with the Chieftec Flex-Net ($41) and, for example, an Asus P4B533-VM ($113). That said, however, you must then find a low profile AGP card to purchase, which can be...

from 10 to 25 Mbps MPEG-4 (per rendering) supported, can be installed as seperate update Notes Set BIOS to AGP aperture size of 128 MB or greater. (AGP Aperture is called "Graphics Aperture" or "Graphics window" in some system BIOS models.) The current...