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To: The Phoenix who wrote (1847)	9/4/1998 1:36:00 PM
From: divvie	Read Replies (1) of 2578

This is an interesting development. The thing that the writer of the article is confused about though is PCI is primarily used for the bus to the video card. INTC's solution is AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) which runs at 66MHZ. AGP X2 runs at 133MHz and there are different flavors of both, distinguished by dual or single buffers. The reason INTC developed AGP was that the bus between CPU and the video card was getting increasingly saturated as the need for geometry, lighting, shading, and texture mapping data for complex 3d worlds (in games of all things) increased dramatically. Once developers start using main memory to store textures, instead of on board memory on the video card, then AGP comes into its own. The 100MHz motherboard for the latest PII chipsets (440BX) is a far more important and useful development. I suspect that this new standard is a competitor to the 440BX chipset from INTC rather than a replacement for PCI. That makes much more sense. But they are calling it PCIX though aren't they? That is perplexing as only heavily texture mapped 3D objects are going to benefit from a faster video card bus. I don't get it.

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