What Is Actualy A Agp Card?

[tinoymalayil 0]

What is actually a AGP Card..Is it the card used to increase the video memory?

[zakaluka 0]

This refers to the interface between the card and the computer. The connection can either be PCI, AGP, PCI-E and so on. Cards with a particular interface are not compatible with a computer that has a different kind of slot, so make sure you only purchase a card that is compatible with your computer.In order, chronologically, the interfaces are as follows:PCI - oldest interface, cards with this interface are hardly released anymore.AGP - introduced in 1997, started phasing out in 2004.PCI-E - latest interface, all the newest cards are released using this interface.So, the newer the interface that your computer has, the more certain it is that the card will be more powerful.Regards,z.

[MadBoy 0]

AGP :introduced in 1997, started phasing out in 2004.

[guhati 0]

Wait... I don't want to be mean... but I am totally confused in this discussion. Are you guys talking about Graphic card or the computer memory card?

[buherath 0]

Its related to graphics cards. You can divide graphics cards in to 2 main categories. The categories are according to their data transfer speeds.1. Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) 2. PCIAt first graphics card were fixed to PCI ports. The data transfer speed was 132 MB/s. It was quite sufficient for those days. But later came Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP). These ports unlike PCI ports were totally dedicated to graphics card only. The data transfer speed of an AGP 8X port is about 2,100 MB/s. There were AGP ports of 4X but nowadays only 8X are used.But after AGP 8X again came the PCI ports with newer data transfer speeds. The PCI ports were renamed as PCI-EXPRESS. A PCI Express 16X card has a data transfer speed of 8000 MB/s. Yup! that's 8GB per second!!!But for you, all this matters is when buying a new graphics card. nowadays you can find the AGP 8X cards and PCI Express 16X cards for sale. Of these two PCI Express 16X Cards are better and faster.What you have to do is, look at your motherboard manual and see whether what slot you have out of these two. If you have an AGP 8x slot you have to buy an AGP card. If you have a PCI express 16X slot you have to buy a PCI Express card.Keep in mind that you cannot fix a PCI Express card to an AGP slot and vice versa !!!! Hope this bit of information helped you and answered your question.

[curtis07 0]

There is also a newer version of PCI-express, version 2.0. You simply need to look at your motherboard specs.Sometimes you will find AGP 4x on your motherboard. Also you can find PCI-express 8x. Your biggest concern should be finding out if your card will physically fit in your motherboard's graphics slot. Some PCI-express ports/cards are longer than others. A 16x slot is backward-compatible with any PCI-express card, but not vice versa. AGP has only one size slot, as far as I know, and most cards are forward- and backward-compatible.Like everyone has said, the most important thing is to look at your motherboard specs.

[k3nnyz 0]

the thread starter seems to be completely clueless about computers, so i'll try to explain it as simple as i can.Graphics on the computer uses a specific card called the graphics card to display the graphics on your screen. You need a good graphics card to run 3D games or using graphics-intensive programs, like multimedia editing and etc.The graphics card have ram built on them, called video ram. You were asking if it increases the video ram. The answer is no, you can replace the graphics card with a better one with more video ram, but you can't increase the video ram on the card itself.AGP is the interface that is used to connect the graphics card to the computer. New computers mainly use PCI-Express slots, and AGP is the predecessor of PCI-Express. If you have an older computer, most likely the graphics card slot that comes with it is AGP.