Agp

[zip86]

How important is AGP? My computer only supports 4x AGP and I'm a gamer so I want the most out of gaming.

[TwoRails]

In general, it's very important. From what I've read, "they" say that 4x will be running games just fine for a couple of years...

[rice&noodles]

hm... where have I read that AGP and PCI comparisons for the same card are not much different?

[glc]

4X AGP will be plenty good for another couple of years. There is maybe a 2% speed difference between 8x and 4x in the real world.

I dunno about that, rice - I just replaced a PCI Radeon 7200 with 32mb SDR with an AGP Radeon LE with 32mb DDR (using an AGP 2x slot) and my 3D Mark 2001 went up from 1400 to 2200. Thats a big improvement, and I don't think just the DDR memory will make THAT big a difference. The real world improvement was VERY noticeable, the truck chase went up from 3 fps to over 20 and the whole benchmark ran noticeably smoother.