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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:23 pm
by GORDON
I was just readin slashdot, and they're talking about how everyone knows AGP is dead, almost no new system have agp any more, etc.
Really?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/02/03/1411212.shtml
I had not heard a single thing about this.......
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:37 pm
by Troy
Urm.. Durr
I bought myself the Last AGP good AGP card tho, The x800xt.. everythign else was not only more expensive, but PCI express only!
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:43 pm
by TPRJones
PCI? What? I thought PCI was the retarted little brother of AGP. No?
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:15 pm
by GORDON
Yeah. I completely missed this little development. I bought a new mobo not 4 months ago with an AGP port.
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:28 pm
by TheCatt
I bought a mobo about a year ago, and got PCI-E and AGP so I could use my current card and upgrade later.
My laptop (6 months old) has PCI-E.
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:29 pm
by TheCatt
PCI? What? I thought PCI was the retarted little brother of AGP. No?
PCI is, but PCI-E is twice as fast as AGP can go.
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:17 pm
by Leisher
I try to keep up on the latest tech stuff via the PC gaming mags so I knew about PCI Express, but I'll be damned if I can figure out CPUs these days.
They've gone backwards in speed, but they're faster...
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:51 am
by Cakedaddy
In your defence Gordon, you weren't shopping for or specing a REAL high end PC. And since there probably weren't any low end PCI-E cards at the time, you didn't come accross it.
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:24 am
by TheCatt
The RAM is what gets me now... especially with all the CAS latency and timing stuff. and the Mhz rating and the, uh, whatever is like 8x times that rating (pc3200 being 400Mhz, etc).
RAM used to be simple.
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:42 pm
by TPRJones
Ahhh! PCI-E != PCI, got it. I missed that part.
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:15 pm
by Cakedaddy
RAM has always had CAS, but the low stuff was super expensive. What gets me is that you have to buy slow RAM for the dual channel stuff, instead of the high speed stuff. But, the DC is still faster or something.
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:51 pm
by thibodeaux
I keep waiting for somebody to say, "In my day..."
And we liked it!
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:11 pm
by TheCatt
In my day, we had to install each RAM chip individually, none of this "stick of RAM" crap.
AND WE LIKED IT
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:26 pm
by Cakedaddy
In my day, RAM was measured in KB, and we liked it!
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:51 pm
by Selby
AND we worried about bending the pins!
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:03 am
by Paul
Everybody knows that ISA will be making a comeback.
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:00 pm
by Cakedaddy
EISA kicks ISA's ass.
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:03 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:36 pm
by Paul
Vacuum tube 2.0 is going to be sweeeeeeet! I hear they'll be four times as powerful, and only twice as big.
'While a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 10000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons.'
* Popular mechanics, 1949
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:49 pm
by TPRJones
I want my punchcards back.
