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AGP card in PCI Bus
Name: jonah hex Date: June 7, 2004 at 18:54:26 Pacific OS: WIndows ME CPU/Ram: 866/384
Comment:
I know relatively nothing about video cards, and i have a question. When i bring up display properties, and click on the NVIDIA Display, I notice that the BUS is set to PCI. How to switch to AGP? Is the switch needed?
Name: jonah hex Date: June 8, 2004 at 08:10:10 Pacific
Reply:
thanks alot...
back to work
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Response Number 3
Name: myardor Date: June 10, 2004 at 10:21:42 Pacific
Reply:
AGP is an extension of PCI? what are u drinking, can i have some? what are u smoking, can i have some also?
could u please post the urls/ sites where it states this? in my books AGP and PCI are related only in that they video related and not extensions of each other. hope u will not say PCI Express is an extension of either one of the above.
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