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AGP Slot

Intel released the first version of AGP, appropriately titled “AGP specification 1.0,” in 1997. It included both the 1x and 2x speeds. As of 2004, newer versions of AGP increase the transfer rate from two to eight times. There are also different kinds of AGP pro video cards. They only use one AGP slot and are most times longer and require a larger in voltage size power supplies.

Generally these types of AGP video cards are used in the business profession by engineer’s architects drafting and game design The AGP physical interface has two different versions, the 1.5v and the 3.3v cards. The 3.3v is opposite of the 1.5v in respect of the location of the key, in the 1.5 the key is located further away from the external connector. If a 3.3v card is poorly designed and has the 1.5v key it can cause severe damage to a mother board if it were to be installed in a AGP 4x/8x slot.

AGP Express is a method of allowing an AGP interface card to connect or to be installed into a PCI bus. This technology was developed by ECS mother board manufacture to allow for the ability to install an AGP card into a PCI express slot.

The phasing out of AGP has become so severe that it is difficult to find a new mother board with the AGP slot technology.

Unless you are really desperate it is not recommended to buy this type of mother board, the performance of these cards installed into the PCI-express bus is severely degraded and there is incomplete support for AGP cards.

ASRock mother board manufacture developed the AGI video card. AGI stand for ASRock Graphics card.

The reason behind the development of this type of video card was to provide support for a chipset that was lacking the AGP-support. The performance of these video cards is yet to be seen, and it is not fully compatible with several video card chipsets.

Last but not least is the AGX developed by Epox. AGX stands for Advanced Graphics extended. However, it is also like the AGI card, relatively poor performance and compatibility.

AGP quick points.

1x card support for up to 264mps of video data transfer.

2x card support for up to 512mps of video data transfer.

4x card support for up to 1gps of video data transfer.

8x card support for up to 2gps of video data transfer

Slow Computers – Helpful Advice

In this modern age of computer when almost every sector and every person depends on computers one cannot think of leading a life without this helpful device. Computers have evolved in our lives making it easier and faster. Computers can carry out many of our functions and are widely used by almost everyone in their daily life. But a slow computer can be a big trouble as it introduces an unwanted delay in the daily tasks of its user. So if you wish to keep the performance of your computer unhampered you should know how to deal with the problems that can slow down the pace of a computer.

How Can A Computer Become Slow?

There are many factors which can lead to the slowing down of the pace of a computer. Corrupt registry can greatly lead to the degraded performance of a computer. When a new application gets installed in the computer the window registry facility enables the operating system to know about the presence of the installed application thereby allocates necessary amount of memory for it. But when this application is deleted from the hard disk even the keys which were related to it gets deleted from the registry. This can greatly hamper the speed of the computer.

More Reasons For Slow Computer

Often the keys get corrupt and do not get deleted. As a result of this the operating unaware of the absence of the application keeps on sharing the part of the memory assigned for the application. For this reason the other applications cannot utilize the amount of memory that is free which in turn makes the computer slow. What you need to do is to take the aid of a registry cleaning tool which cleanses corrupt and unwanted keys from the window registry thus boosting up the speed of the computer.

New Dell CFO

As it continues to work on a turnaround, Dell on Monday announced that it has named a former General Electric executive to serve as its new chief financial officer.

Brian Gladden, who had nearly 20 years of finance and management experience at GE, will join the computer maker on Tuesday as a senior vice president, assuming the role of chief financial officer on 13 June. Gladden is coming from Sabic Innovative Plastics, a GE Plastics spin-off where he has been serving as chief executive. Sabic is a unit of Saudi Basic Industries.

As it continues to work on a turnaround, Dell on Monday announced that it has named a former General Electric executive to serve as its new chief financial officer.

Brian Gladden, who had nearly 20 years of finance and management experience at GE, will join the computer maker on Tuesday as a senior vice president, assuming the role of chief financial officer on 13 June. Gladden is coming from Sabic Innovative Plastics, a GE Plastics spin-off where he has been serving as chief executive. Sabic is a unit of Saudi Basic Industries.

Prior to joining Sabic, Gladden held such posts as chief financial officer of GE Plastics and GE Medical Systems Healthcare IT.

“We look forward to welcoming Brian as an operationally focused CFO whose skills in running multibillion-dollar enterprises, and substantial experience with an industry leader, make him an ideal fit for the global economies in which we operate,” Michael Dell, chief executive of Dell, said in a statement.

Gladden is replacing Donald Carty, who is stepping down after roughly 15 months on the job.

Carty, who will remain a Dell director, took over the chief financial officer position in January 2007, as the computer maker tried to address a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into its accounting practices.

Carty, who was on Dell’s board at the time of his chief financial officer appointment, had been serving on the board’s audit committee, which initiated its own investigation into the company’s accounting practices.

“Don has played a key role in re-establishing transparency and integrity in our financial practices, and we are extremely grateful to have had his leadership,” said Michael Dell.

Juniper, Polycom team up on TelePresence

Juniper Networks and Polycom have teamed on a joint telepresence and video-conferencing offering that is designed to serve as a counterweight to Cisco and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.

In a statement on Monday, Juniper and Polycom said they will optimise their platforms so service providers can offer video and telepresence cheaply. The argument is that it is cheaper for enterprises to deploy telepresence as a service from their network providers instead of building out their own networks.

The deal with Juniper highlights Polycom’s partnership strategy. Polycom last week announced a global reseller agreement with Siemens. Polycom also highlighted a telepresence demo with IBM at CES 2010. The aim for Polycom is to forge partnerships that allow it to surround Cisco and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.

Cisco takes the greener path network

Cisco on Tuesday launched a three-phase plan to reduce the energy consumption of datacentres, network infrastructure and attached devices such as phones, video-surveillance cameras, wireless-access points and in the datacentre.

Cisco said the EnergyWise strategy, intended for Cisco Catalyst switches, is for measuring, reporting on and reducing the energy consumption of IP devices. The company also announced industry partnerships that it said could help reduce power consumption in buildings from lights, lifts, air conditioning and heating.

The first phase of the plan, to be launched in February, will cover network control of the Cisco Catalyst switches.

The second phase will be launched in the summer and will cover the control of IT resources. At the same time, the company claimed, it will also have expanded industry support of EnergyWise on devices such as PCs, laptops and printers.

The final phase, which is due in early 2010, will focus on building controls and will also be extended to cover the management of building system assets such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning, lifts, lights, employee-badge-access systems, fire-alarm systems and security systems.

According to Dave Frampton, general manager for the switching business unit at Cisco, the company is getting involved in green datacentre strategies because “[Cisco sits] at the centre so [Cisco is] the logical place to blend together all the middleware element”.

“The IP network is the single pervasive element,” he said.

EnergyWise is intended to provide “real-time, granular measurement capabilities to give chief information officers better visibility into energy savings across an entire organisation”, Cisco said in its statement.

The EnergyWise programme is available to users of Cisco 2K and 3K switches at no charge, Frampton said.