“PCI Express (PCIe) mainboards for AMD’s Athlon 64 processor have been in the stores since the fall of 2004. Until now, though, these boards were not able to really “pull away” from ones with AGP 8X. This is no wonder, given that the maximum AGP bandwidth of up to 2 GB/s is entirely adequate in most cases. Even so, with the next generation of graphics cards, manufacturers’ attention will switch to PCI Express; that is where the future lies, and even today there is little difference in price.”
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