[geeks] AGP irritations (64bit PCI)

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> > Wasn't there a thread here a while back about how AGP was just a
> > marketing ploy by Intel and that 64bit/66mhz cards would have worked
> > out just fine?
>
> Don't know if it was here, but I certainly think so.  Perhaps now with
> 8x AGP might be ahead of 64bit/66Mhz, but it wasn't true originally.
>
> And reinforcing that it was a money-making ploy is how they introduced
> increasing speeds slowly.  First it was AGP.  Then AGP 2X.  Then AGP 4X.
> Keeping the churn going for their chipsets.

Well, now that there'ss 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X...

Many companies' workstation video cards have been using PCI-X for a while.

Peace...  Sridhar