Specifications

Computer Architecture and Maintenance (G-Scheme-2014)
monitors, or to gain speed, a separate video card is still recommended. Graphics
accelerator cards are especially useful for gaming.
SLI and Crossfire Compatibility
This is of special importance to high-end gamers or others who are using 3D graphics.
SLI and Crossfire are the methods for using multiple video cards together to increase
performance and quality. Most boards will have one or the other, although there are a
few boards which are compatible with both.
AGP –Accelerated Graphics Port
Q.What is AGP state its Features?
Ans. The Accelerated Graphics Port (also called Advanced Graphics Port) is a high-
speed point-to-point channel for attaching a graphics card to a computer’s
motherboard primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.
AGP is often referred to as a bus’; however, this is a misnomer- a single AGP controller
is only capable of controlling a single device.AGP is currently being phased out in
favor of PCI Express. The ACP slot is designed to acceptan AGP video card. This
bus is in fact a port since it connects only two devices. Many motherboards with
embedded video do not include an AGP slot. That means that upgrading the video
adapter in such a configuration requires using a PCI video card.
Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display
adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and
only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. AGP was introduced as a higher-speed
alternative to PCI display adapters, and it freed a PCI slot for another peripheral
device. The brown AGP slot is slightly shorter than the white PCI slot and is located
about an inch farther back. AGP was superseded by PCI Express.
Advantage of AGP over PCI
As computers increasingly became graphically oriented, successive generations
of graphics adapters began to push the limits of PCI, a bus with shared bandwidth.
This led to the development of AGP, a "bus" dedicated to graphics adapters.
The primary advantage of AGP over PCI is that it provides a dedicated pathway
between the slot and the processor rather than sharing the PCI bus. In addition to a lack
of contention for the bus, the direct connection allows for higher clock speeds. AGP
also uses sideband addressing, meaning that the address and data buses are separated
so the entire packet does not need to be read to get addressing information. This is
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