Well I feel like the village idiot. Despite reading clear, plain-English warnings against 'fake-bridged' AGP+PCIe combo motherboards, I went ahead and bought an ECS K8T890-A motherboard and AMD Athlon ...

Here's something that serves almost no practical purpose and effects only a tiny fraction of enthusiasts, but yet is still interesting to see nonetheless. The crew at OCWorkbench got SLI working using ...

Last night I had the grim task of doing a post mortem on my computer. Somehow the IDE channels are toast and the motherboard is a write off.<BR><BR>So now I need to buy a new motherboard and chip. I ...

BFG Offers FREE Upgrade to PCI Express from AGP cards For a limited time graphics card maker BFG Tech is offering registered BFG AGP Video card holders an upgrade to the equivalent BFG PCI Express ...

Also on ECS's stand at CeBit, you'll find a mainboard called K8T890-A940, which uses VIA's K8T890 core logic (funnily enough!) to bring PCI Express and AGP to AMD's new socket and processor family.

AGP was point-to-point like PCI Express, but AGP is full-duplex: Data can flow in only one direction at a time. Furthermore, AGP never offered symmetric bandwidth in its implementations, even though ...

News.com discusses the recent adoption of AGP 8x on NVidia's nForce2 chipset. But dates this standard and expects PCI Express to overtake it in about 1 1/2 years: "AGP has kind of worn out," said ...

Albatron has developed an AGP-to-PCI-Express (PCIe) bridge card called the ATOP, which allows users to use an AGP 8x VGA card on a PCIe motherboard. Save my User ID and Password Some subscribers ...

A motherboard's main job is to act as a conduit between the various hardware elements that make up a PC. It needs to be able to link the desired CPU(s), system memory, graphics card, hard drive(s), ...

PCI Express is a new interconnect standard that provides a serial replacement for the PCI, AGP, and PCI-X buses, which are commonly used in computer and embedded systems. The market has embraced the ...

One of the best tool for overclocking NVIDIA and ATI videocards is our own Rivatuner that you can download here. If you own a NVIDIA graphics card then NVIDIA actually has very nice built in options ...