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Do the current Alu iMac use AGP or PCIe as their graphics bus?
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Dec 24, 2007, 06:01 AM
 
I know that my white iMac uses AGP x8 as its bus, just wanted to know out of curiosity if the new ones still use AGP.
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Dec 24, 2007, 10:57 AM
 
The current iMacs use 16x PCIe for graphics.
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Dec 24, 2007, 11:01 AM
 
Originally Posted by Simon View Post
The current iMacs use 16x PCIe for graphics.

Ah, thanks.
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Dec 24, 2007, 11:12 AM
 
All Intel Macs use PCIe for graphics.
     
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Dec 24, 2007, 11:16 AM
 
Yeah, I thought that didn't sound quite right.

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