[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Simon wrote: > >> I may be talking rubbish but I understood this is a fundamental >> problem with reading VGA memory over the PCI bus. VGA cards are >> designed for fast writes and not fast reads. > > depends. > > on pci and AGP it's an issue. > AGP has the assymetric bandwidth built in. > > on PCI express, it's supposed to get much better. > > >> I do hear that some cards are appearing with dual PCIX which will >> allow symetric access speeds to the frame buffer. >> > > Note that PCIX is not pci express (PCIe or PCI-e or PCI-E). It's so > confusing. PCIX is PCI-X which is an old, slow bus. > > ron
PCIX is slow? Is 34Gbps not quick enough for you?
