[wplug] Motherboard mutilation

[Vance Kochenderfer]

"Michael A. Smith" <michael at smith-li.com> wrote:
> Now, I've got nvidia-glx running, but I'm only able to get about 200FPS 
> with glxgears (at its default size). For the time being I'm satisfied 
> that I didn't completely break my computer, but I did hear that 8x PCI-E 
> is supposed to outperform AGP, so "where's the beef"?

I have no experience, but have read that the first set of PCI-E
video cards coming out are essentially AGP cards which include an
AGP-to-PCI-E bridge chip.  So the performance should not be much
different than existing AGP cards.  Supposedly the next wave of
cards to come out will be native PCI-E.

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