2007-04-01 06:15:08 · 6 answers · asked by Jacob F 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
PCI - 1st Generation
AGP - 2nd Generation
PCI Express - 3rd Generation
PCI Express (Official abbreviation PCIe, PCI-E often used, not to be mistaken for PCI-X) is a computer system bus that allows expansion cards with various capabilities to be added to a system. It is a flexible system intended to replace PCI, PCI-X and AGP. While PCI Express has the same software interface as PCI and can be bridged to PCI, the cards are physically and electrically incompatible. While in development, PCI Express was referred to as Arapaho or 3GIO for 3rd Generation I/O.
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2007-04-01 06:19:07 · answer #1 · answered by GoLd E 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
PCI graphic card is quite old, should be avoided if possible (most motherboards have one of these slots).
AGP was a card techonology made specifically for graphic cards, still holds is own these days, your motherboard needs to have this slot to have an AGP card installed, check your motherboard
Newer technology is called PCIe and it's a little better than AGP, go that route if you have a new motherboard (the motherboard needs to have PCIe slots) and want to play the newest 3D games.
Main difference is the speed at which data is transferred. The actual physical sizes of these cards are relatively equal.
PCI cards don't fit into AGP slots. AGP don't fit into PCI slots.
2007-04-01 13:25:19 · answer #2 · answered by moginspace 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lets just say never get a pci card.. if you have an agp bus get an agp card definetly.. pci will not even play last gen games and decent resolutions.. agp i believe has more bandwidth so it transmit more data..
2007-04-01 13:22:38 · answer #3 · answered by Trevor Richardson 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Different slot technology behind it. In case you also don't know where they go in your cp look at the following picture link:
PCI goes in the default white slots (you have a lot of them in each pc), but AGP has often only 1 slot on your mother board.
2007-04-01 13:29:21 · answer #4 · answered by me c 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Make sure you buy the one that fits in your motherboard--AGP wont fit in a PCI slot and visa versa--some motherboards have both.
2007-04-01 13:30:27 · answer #5 · answered by Nemo the geek 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
pci sucks, agp is good, and pci express x16 is awesome. It is a matter of bandwith
2007-04-01 13:21:36 · answer #6 · answered by scooter 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋