24 Oct
1999
24 Oct
'99
8:08 p.m.
Mike wrote:
Sure, but AGP is better than -no- AGP, and it does
show that there are othe
busses available on a PC, yes? (Which was my original point.)
Allison J Parent <allisonp(a)world.std.com> wrote:
NO! those busses cannot operate in parellel and they
operate and the
expense of each other.
Actually, in most recent PCs the PCI and AGP busses can and do operate
independently. Some server-class PCs have multiple independent PCI
busses, using the Intel 450 series chip sets. (Not to be confused
with systems that simply have a PCI-to-PCI bridge.)
The ISA bus doesn't operate independently, but it's only there for legacy
devices, and some of the latest PCs don't even have it.
I'd add if you plug in a slow card the plug and
pray hardware may configure to that slower card at the expense of faster
ones around it.
Huh? A slow card may tie up the PCI bus longer during a transfer, but
when it is not using the bus, it doesn't affect the transfer rate of other
cards.
All said and in the end, we have a troll.
We may all have differing opinions, but let's try to keep this at
the level of rational discourse.