On 4/12/06, Anne Wilson <<a href="mailto:cannewilson@tiscali.co.uk">cannewilson@tiscali.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 10:22, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > I can't say much here myself. However, it depends on the animation software > that is going to be used. But graphics, eps. graphics development is always > going to be CPU and GPU intensive. > Since graphics are not such a big deal to me, I haven't been keeping an eye on the issues. I know that PCI Express was tipped to be something to watch, but that was a good while ago. Since I haven't seen much mention of it recently I wondered if it was another thing that hadn't lived up to the promise. The last thing I want to do is spend a couple of hundred pounds only to find that an agp card with lower ram would have done the same job. </blockquote></div> Well I am no graphics nut myself. But I try to keepup with all genres of tech, and to the best of my understanding PCI-E is to AGP what AGP is to PCI. So a well reviewed PCI-E card should be a sound buy. I generally check <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/">http://reviews.cnet.com/</a> when investigating purchase of tech hardware that I am not too familiar with. Peace. -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.