| ScratchMonkey 2005-07-21, 8:42 pm |
| "Miracle Smith" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:42df2bba_6
@galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
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> Yeah, but they aren't AGP, are they?
AGP was specifically a graphics bus. PCI-E is a general I/O bus that can
service fast gigabit Ethernet as well as texture-hungry graphics.
It was just leaked that next year's AMD chips will have even more pins so
that the PCI-E controller can be integrated directly into the CPU substrate
for even higher performance. (Every time you cross a chip boundary you eat
some of your performance, because the tiny on-chip circuitry is much faster
than the relatively-huge off-chip copper traces.)
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