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To: the Chief who wrote (2297)	2/9/1999 9:01:00 AM
From: NTT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4467

Chief, although AGP is primarily used for storing extra 3D textures, command lists, and sometimes DVD P/B frames, it can also be useful for standard 2D work as well. The bus itself is considerably faster than PCI and since it's dedicated there is no contention with your hard drives etc. Having said all that, assuming you are not playing 3D accelerated games, and are using it strictly for trading then you won't notice any discernable difference if you leave your primary as PCI. Typically for 2D work, PCI is not really a bottleneck because of the small amounts of host data that needs to be moved. All of this holds for the RagePro based cards like the Xpert98. The Rage128 based Xpert128, Fury etc. should definitely only be used in AGP.