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One reason why an AGP slot may be a good idea is the basic availability of the hardware.

Performance issues aside (we all know no 68K system is going to push AGP data rates over the bus), there seems to be far more choice in the AGP card market than the PCI one.

Having said that, however, we don't yet have drivers for all the PCI cards out there, let alone AGP ones ;-)
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Re: Lots of PCI solutions - why did no one create a PCI+AGP solution?
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2003, 01:10:12 PM »
@lempkee

Not all amiga PCI systems are created equal. A while ago I gathered a fair bit of information on direct gfx access speeds for current amiga gfx cards. 7.2M/s was probably the slowest.

The fastest results I got back tipped 35Mb/s...
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Re: Lots of PCI solutions - why did no one create a PCI+AGP solution?
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2003, 02:21:36 PM »
Yeah :-D

Whats the current story with the sharkppc+ anyways?
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Re: Lots of PCI solutions - why did no one create a PCI+AGP solution?
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2003, 04:43:59 PM »
@downix,

Well I guess that answers that :lol:
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