What's a better video card, AGP or PCI Express?

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Phisherman wrote:

> I'd like to select a video card, mostly based on features,
> flexibility, and cost. I will be editing pictures and very short
> movies, plus some macromedia web development. What's better AGP or
> PCI Express? Are they basically equivalent? I'm leaning toward a
> NVIDIA GeForce card, something $160 or less.

At the moment there is almost no difference between the two. However,
PCI-Express has the capability for twice the speed of AGP, 16x vs 8x,
but who know when those will become available.

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> I'd like to select a video card, mostly based on features,
> flexibility, and cost. I will be editing pictures and very short
> movies, plus some macromedia web development. What's better AGP or
> PCI Express? Are they basically equivalent? I'm leaning toward a
> NVIDIA GeForce card, something $160 or less.

It really depends on what your motherboard supports. Unless it supports
both you don't have a choice.

There's a price gap in the $100-200 range for nvidia cards right now.
You might get a 5900 for about that. A radeon 9600XT can be had for
about $130. A nvidia 5200 or 5500 will be under $100 and still more
than enough for what you are doing (and will play most of today's games
at a tolerable level).

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In article <6ac0e$4231d5aa$438cb22e$15757@ALLTEL.NET>,
Dee <dee@home.net> wrote:
>Phisherman wrote:
>
>> I'd like to select a video card, mostly based on features,
>> flexibility, and cost. I will be editing pictures and very short
>> movies, plus some macromedia web development. What's better AGP or
>> PCI Express? Are they basically equivalent? I'm leaning toward a
>> NVIDIA GeForce card, something $160 or less.
>
>At the moment there is almost no difference between the two. However,
>PCI-Express has the capability for twice the speed of AGP, 16x vs 8x,
>but who know when those will become available.


IMO unless yoiu are running intense 3D software, ie games, any 2D card
is fine and the bandwidth that pio-x gets you doesn't buy you
anything.

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"Phisherman" <nobody@noone.com> wrote in message
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> I'd like to select a video card, mostly based on features,
> flexibility, and cost. I will be editing pictures and very short
> movies, plus some macromedia web development. What's better AGP or
> PCI Express? Are they basically equivalent? I'm leaning toward a
> NVIDIA GeForce card, something $160 or less.


ATI have better depth of colour for video and still editing, N VIDIA is
mainly a gaming card. PCIEx is faster than AGP3 8x but you need a board with
a PCIEx slot to fit one.









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ckccomp25@hotmail.com

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In article <fqj331t5n2vrk0nv568dbsfb66htdd9dvi@4ax.com>, Phisherman
says...
> I'd like to select a video card, mostly based on features,
> flexibility, and cost. I will be editing pictures and very short
> movies, plus some macromedia web development. What's better AGP or
> PCI Express? Are they basically equivalent? I'm leaning toward a
> NVIDIA GeForce card, something $160 or less.
>
Matrox range. Best 2D image quality. Doesn't matter whether it is PCI-E
or AGP as 3D speed is unimportant.

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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:07:39 GMT, Phisherman
<nobody@noone.com> wrote:

>I'd like to select a video card, mostly based on features,
>flexibility, and cost. I will be editing pictures and very short
>movies, plus some macromedia web development. What's better AGP or
>PCI Express? Are they basically equivalent? I'm leaning toward a
>NVIDIA GeForce card, something $160 or less.

In gaming there is very little difference except that the
newest cards (of course fastest at the top-end) will be PCI
express. However, the described uses do not need any
particular performance level from the video card. You could
run a budget grade circa-'99 card and still have same
performance. However, ignoring the specific tasks you still
would want something with good crisp 2D, which generally is
delivered by Matrox, ATI, and nVidia (in that order, though
the gap between them has closed a lot in the past couple
years).

Unless you'll be gaming there is no benefit to a card
costing ~ $150 relative to one costing only $50, except
perhaps multiple display support as it can be handy with
editing.