[ale] AGP video cards

[Jim Popovitch]

AGP cards run at a much higher bus speed.  Well worth the difference.  I get
much better performance playing Unreal or Half-life on a Pentium 233mmx,
64m, with a AGP VooDoo2 Banshee than I do on a Pentium II 350, 128m, with a
PCI Diamond Viper550.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
 From: cfowler at avana.net <cfowler at avana.net>
To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Friday, April 16, 1999 11:30 PM
Subject: [ale] AGP video cards


>
>What is the difference between and AGP and PCI video card?
>
>I've been looking for a sub $500 Linux workstation and most use
>AGP cards.  ?Has anyone found a sub $500 workstation that has
>1024x768 24bit.  good sound and decent HDD space and ram?  I
>found one that had almost all but the monitor but I need at least
>1024x768 16million colors.
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
>