Value of integrated graphics on mobo?

Rob Stow wrote:
Michael wrote:

But hasn't ATI continued to build/release up to date Radeon cpu based
video
cards? They're pretty high tech? OTOH, the PCI Radeon cards are much
more
expensive than similar AGP based video cards?


No, the Radeon 9200's and 9200SE's are very similarly
priced for the AGP and PCI versions - and at some
vendors they have *exactly* the same price.

For example, about five weeks ago I bought four
128 MB ATI Radeon 9200 PCI cards for $139.95 each
at FutureShop (Canadian electronics store chain).
The AGP version of the card at that store had exactly
the same price.

Are you sure though the PCI cards have a 128bit memory interface? AFAIK
PCI cards always have the name "9200" and not "9200SE" even if in fact
sometimes they only have the 64bit interface (you can see it easily, if
they have only 4 (tsop) memory chips in total, then they have a 64bit
memory interface).
And of course these 9200 cards are not exactly "up to date", they might
not be that old but the technology is rather outdated.

Roland