[mythtv-users] AGP vs. PCI card for old P4PE motherboard withP4 2.8Ghz cpu

[Jeff Thurston]

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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] AGP vs. PCI card for old P4PE motherboard
> withP4 2.8Ghz cpu
> 
> On 05/12/2008, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <mythtv-users at kosowsky.org> wrote:
> 
> >  My only concern is will PCI-based cards be slower since they share the
> >  same general-purpose old PCI bus whereas presumably the AGP slot & bus
> >  were optimized and dedicated to graphics.
> 
> Go for AGP. Additionally, you can't add a capture card into a spare AGP
> slot...
> 
> Nick
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Go for AGP, while it still assigns an interrupt to AGP I believe it is not
shared. I had this board for LONG time until recently and with 3 PCI tuners
no matter what combination of slots I used I would eventually get DMA
timeouts - disabling things like USB 2.0 freed up enough IRQs to seemed to
work around it.

My feeling is the less PCI used on this board the better.

Just my two cents.