AGP vs PCI

[amock]

Recently my brother got suckered into buying a complete system with one of those all-in-one motherboards with no AGP slot. I´m not talking about nForce or nForce2 but intels interegrated chipset. It has a max of 16MB of video-ram which it steals from the standerd (128mb) ram chip and is ´chug-chug´ slow. He then decided an upgrade in graphics was needed for games but his only option was PCI based cards so he bought a Gainward geforce2 mx200 PCI.
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<BR>I have 2 reasons for putting up this meassage:
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<BR>(1) To warn any pc buyer that if he´s offered a PC at a really cheap price, check if the mother-board is using Intels Intergrated graphics, if it is...RUUUUNNNNNNNN the other way and don´t look back
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<BR>(2) To see if anyone knows what the performance drop is from Geforce2 AGP too PCI.
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<BR>god is a myth seen through the eyes of desperate men!<BR><BR><font size=-1>[ Edited by amock On Date <br>February 28, 2003 ]</font>

[SnowMonkey]

I had Geforce 2 Mx 200 intergrated on a 1Gig duron and it did its job all right! It got 2500 3d marks and ran quake @ about 56 FPS! I would say scrap that computer and get an AGP port! <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_eek.gif">