Re: Video card dilemma

DaveW wrote:

AGP is an older technology that has been superseded on new
motherboards by PCI-E video cards that have a much wider
bandwidth,

Isin't pretty much all of the extra bandwidth advantage of PCI-e lie
in the direction of from the card back to the motherboard? (ie it has
the same bandwidth as AGP in the direction from the motherboard to the
card) ?

And that if you're not running a dual-card setup, that you'll never
realize that extra bandwidth?

It's my impression that the practical (real-world) performance
increase of AGP -> PCI-e is low when compared to other such
transitions (ISA->PCI, PCI->AGP, for example).
.

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