Q: I read an article at tomshardware.com that AGP is getting outdated. Does a PCI graphics card use the same PCI slot as say a sound card, or do these use different pci slots?
A: It's correct that AGP is on its way out. It's getting very hard to find new AGP cards and those you would find are not based on the latest, fastest GPUs. The new PCI-e graphics cards communicate with the CPU and other devices through a much faster bus (about twice as fast for a PCI-e X16 graphics card, which is the current standard). PCI-e stands for PCI express, and it is different than the PCI bus/connector that a current sound card would use. PCI actually dates from a time before AGP and is significantly slower. I happened across a good article on this. ** edit ** AGP means Accelerated Graphics Port