AGP vs PCI

The motherboard has what appears to be a Universal AGP slot Meaning it's not keyed at all and the manual says it

The add-in slot defined for P uses a new connector body which is not compatible with the PCI

agp slot image In addition to a lack of contention for the bus, the direct connection allows for higher clock speeds AGP also uses sideband addressing, meaning that the

agp slot function Description: AGP slots were specifically designed for graphics cards and offered higher performance compared to standard PCI slots