Choosing a Video Card: PCI-Express or AGP? by Julien David
What is PCI-Express and AGP? There are two ways to connect a graphics card to a motherboard, either via an AGP or PCI Express slot located on your motherboard. A motherboard only supports one of these slots, so if you’re looking for a new video card make sure you’re aware of whether your... If you’re simply upgrading your gaming computer with a new video card, you should check whether your motherboard supports AGP or PCI Express, and then choose a card accordingly. ... Another advantage of PCI Express is you can connect more than one video card to your computer for extra performance.

A Guide to PCI Express by Gary Hendricks
A Lot More Bandwidth First, to understand PCI Express, we need to know what it is capable of. Traditionally, most of our computers these days come equipped with PCI or AGP based graphics cards. Most of the latest PCs come decked with PCI Express enabled cards. ... Conclusion If you do intend to go the PCI Express highway, then you will want to first upgrade your motherboard to the latest PCI Express type. ... That’s great, because you certainly do not want to be buying PCI Express peripherals just because your motherboard has been upgraded to PCI Express.

Buying a Video Card by Jared Strop
Stunning visuals don't have to cost an arm and a leg with cheap graphics cards (aka video cards). Unless you are a hardcore gamer, you don't need to have the best of the best and a cheap graphics card will do you just fine. Now I'm not saying you should skimp on getting a good video card, but... The bottom line is better performance so make sure to get a motherboard with PCI express slots that can handle the new video cards. ... You are looking for a good video card, right? ... Well, the newer cards are coming out for PCI express slots because they are much faster than AGP.

Upgrading, Adding or Removing a Video Card, Sound Card, or Other AGP/PCI Card by Mark Berger
For Video cards - Most PC video cards these days are AGP. But you COULD be working with PCI, or PCI express. If you're not sure which you have (more then 75% of the time it will be AGP) consult your motherboard manual. If your video card is AGP, you should see a slot smaller then the other slots... You can likely also tell your video card if it has a GPU (a processor with a fan on top of it) or a video card company printed on it like Nvidia or Geforce. ... You will damage, maybe even destroy your card, and you may damage your AGP, PCI or PCI express slot as well.

Video Card Guide - What You Should Know When Purchasing Video Cards by Donny Duncan
When choosing a video card, it is important to know what you’re going to be using it for. The cheapest route is to find a Motherboard with one built into it. This is sufficient for most users. If you simply don’t want one built into your Motherboard, or can’t find one, pretty much any cheap... PCI is the slowest, then AGP scaling up to the various versions of AGP, and the fastest currently being PCI Express, which is used on most of today's high end video cards. ... These are also never cross compatible, so you can not put a PCI Express card into a regular PCI slot, or into an AGP slot.

Top 5 Performance Video Cards by Gary Hendricks
This is a short list of the meanest, fastest and most powerful 3D video cards on the market today. If you own one of them, well - lucky you! XFX GeForce 7800 GTX The XFX GeForce 7800 GTX video card comes with a PCI Express interface, 256MB DDR3 video memory and supports a maximum resolution of... BFG GeForce 7800 GTX Another PCI Express graphics card, the BFG GeForce 7800 GTX runs on 256MB of DDR3 video memory and a maximum resolution of 2048 X 1536. ... Connect 3D Radeon X850 XT Platinum Built on the Radeon X850 XT graphics processor, the Connect 3D Radeon X850 XT Platinum is a PCI...

Video Cards: Is AGP Dead? by Nathan Holsing
If you’ve been looking to upgrade your computer video card you’ve probably heard a great deal about PCI Express and SLI. Don’t run out and buy a new computer just yet and take that AGP motherboard you just threw away out of the trash. The truth is you can probably make some simple upgrades to... For more information on AGP video cards visit the Video Card review section of my website. ... A new video card will probably float you for at least another year, likely two if you get a top of the line card.

How To Properly Install A New Video Card by Otis Cooper
Your video card is one of those components in your computer you want to both learn as much about it as possible and to learn how to remove the old one and install a new card quickly.Playing those awesome games will be that much more enjoyable with one of those muscle bound video cards boosting... When you purchase your next computer,forget the Advanced Graphics Port or the AGP card,be certain your new computer comes with the new PCI Express video card install.You will be glad you did especially if you love those new high resolution games they keep coming out with.

PC Gaming Video: Meeting the Demands by Phil Moyers
If you have an interest in playing PC games that were made at least in the past couple of years, you’ve probably seen the serious video demands these games now have. It’s not only that you need a fast system that can handle all of the information in today’s games, but you need a major... PCI express is the new standard for PC video, but many hardware authorities are still saying that there aren’t really any games or programs out there that use the super data transfer speeds that it has. ... Also, if you want a PCI express card, you had to have either started with a motherboard with this...

Multi-Monitor Madness by Nathan Kartchner
In today’s multitasking computing world, it’s not unusual to see people constantly switching from window to window trying to transfer data form one program to the other. I myself have gotten fairly adept at the Alt-Tab window-switching hotkey sequence. ... Realistically, this $1000-plus item is for more specialty PCI cards that aren’t available in PCMCIA version, but if you have an amazing and absolutely necessary PCI or PCI Express video card that you want to use with your laptop, this is the solution for you.