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The AGP Slot

The AGP Slot. Presented by… Patrick Curtin James Dieteman Christopher Sanford. 1. History of the AGP Slot. Developed by Intel Began twice as fast as previously used PCI slot First released in 1997 PCI cards are still available, but AGP is the current standard. 2. What the AGP Slot Does.

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The AGP Slot

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  1. The AGP Slot Presented by… Patrick Curtin James Dieteman Christopher Sanford 1

  2. History of the AGP Slot • Developed by Intel • Began twice as fast as previously used PCI slot • First released in 1997 • PCI cards are still available, but AGP is the current standard 2

  3. What the AGP Slot Does • Specifically designed for 3D video acceleration and video playback • Communicates directly with processor and main memory • Has access to main memory 3

  4. How the AGP Slot Works • Transfers data on both the rising and falling edges of a clock pulse • No need to pre-cache data into the card’s local memory • Accesses main memory using both pipelining and sideband addressing 4

  5. Evolution of the AGP Slot 5

  6. End of the AGP Slot? • 8x is the last AGP improvement • Intel plans to phase the AGP slot out starting in 2005 • To be replaced by “PCI Express” 6

  7. The End Presentation brought to you by… James Dieteman Patrick Curtin Christopher Sanford 7

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