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Article #527Re: New hardware advice please...
From: tonyh
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 00:00
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Robert Wilderspin wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:17:54 +0100, tonyh <tonyh@tcp.co.uk> wrote: > > >OTOH, are there any actual problems with AGP versions of common cards? > >Apart from that, putting a PCI card in a machine with an AGP socket is > >wasting a PCI slot for the sake of saving peanuts in the cost. > > Not if you believe that the current range of AGP cards aren't that > much better than their PCI equivalents, have spare PCI slots anyway, > and are prepared to wait for a while to get a better AGP one in the > future (in need be). > > Since I've only got one AGP slot against 4 PCIs (of which one is > used), I'm saving it for something better. But if you get a new AGP card your PCI one will surely be redundant anyway, won't it? So you're not really saving your AGP slot. -- TH
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