AGP

•          Accelerated Graphics Port

•          Connects directly into Northbridge

•          Before this the graphics card plugged into a PCI slot

•          Talks directly to RAM using bus mastering

•          32 bit, 66 Mhz

•          AGP 1X runs at 266 Mb/sec

•          AGP 8X runs 8 time faster at 2100 Mb/sec