Unlike PCIe technology which has been designed over a shared-memory design, AGP takes advantage of a dedicated memory bus fr graphics hardware. The AGP bus has a width of 32 bits and works at a full ...

Brown slot located nearest to the processor on most motherboards. AGP ports are used exclusivly for graphics cards and are set back and keyed differently so that other expansion cards will not fit in ...

For a while around a quarter century ago PC motherboards came with a special slot, a little shorter than the PCI slots which ruled the roost back then, and offset from them further into the case. This ...

VMware, as a virtualization platform, provides various features or options to enhance the functionality and performance of the VMs. One such option is 3D acceleration, which helps us enhance our ...

The Accelerated Graphics Port really isn't dead yet. Its 8x variant can still provide enough bandwidth to make an upgrade to a latest-generation card worthwhile. As a result, a few manufacturers have ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Albatron on July 21 launched its AGP7600GS graphics card, which boasts an Nvidia 7600GS core, for AGP- (accelerated graphics port-) capable motherboards. The new AGP core from Nvidia employs ...