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AGP is fine. PCI is fine too. But if you are planning to use multiple cards,
I would recommend against using one AGP & others PCI. I had 2 monitors and a
while ago decided to add 2 more. The original card in my system was a
geforce AGP card (nVidia), supporting one DVI & one analog output. Instead
of replacing it, I decided to add another dual port card (again geforce).
Ofcourse it had to be a PCI card. All hell broke loose. Using winXP. If I
made the AGP as the primary card in bios, it worked fine, the PCI card
didn't. Ditto the other way around. So one of the weekends, I decided on a
full reinstall of XP. All four monitors started working! But only for 3-4
days. One fine morning, the PCI card didn't start.. back to 2 monitors. I
subsequently had to do another XP reinstall, and it's working fine since
then. Not sure why. All kind of bios tweaking & reinstalling nVidia's
detonator drivers did no good.
So if you have a PCI card, and instead of replacing it want to add one or
more cards, go ahead and use PCI, you should be fine. But if you have a AGP
card, consider replacing it. Mixing AGP & PCI seems to be bad karma.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/search.asp seems to have a good
batabase on what combination of cards works.
My 2 cents.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henri Amand" <h.amand@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: PCI or AGP
> cwest wrote:
> > Wondering about the consensus of which is best for multiple monitor
> > graphics controller. PCI or AGP slot.
>
> For the use we have with it it does not matter.
>
> Normaly you would use AGP. That's the standard nowday's.
>
> However, some of the special cards (like the matrox wich can
> handle 4 monitors) they only build pci cards.
>
> problem with pci is speed. It is a slower than AGP. But with
> our 2d graphics that is no problem.
>
> greetings
>
>
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