[ale] AGP video cards

[Nick Lucent]

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On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 cfowler at avana.net wrote:

agp is a different kind of bus, agp is a dedicated video bus running at
66mhz meaning its much faster, whereas pci is a shared bus that only runs
at 33 mhz

> 
> 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
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