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To: Street Walker who wrote (22)1/22/1998 3:02:00 PM
From: Proton  Read Replies (2) of 14778
 
Re: PCI v. AGP in re Multimonitor Cards

Thanks to all for the thread and interesting discussion about mulitmonitor cards.

I'd prefer to see a multimonitor card with AGP support. Here's what I know about AGP:

1. At best, AGP is half-baked. The single-monitor cards don't always support the full feature set (especially important to get sideband addressing, which keeps the data path clear).

2. Yes, I am aware that "AGP doesn't speed up text and 2D apps," but that presupposes one terminal's load on the PCI bus. At a certain point, I should think that a PCI bus burdened with SCSI-3, high-speed ethernet, multimonitor card, and other goodies is going to encounter throughput degredation.

3. There are no AGP multimonitor cards on the market that I know of. I would appreciate being informed if any of you know of one.

I know one can grow old and grey waiting for "the next best thing," but AGP appears to be ideal for supporting multimonitor cards.

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