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PCI
PCI bandwidth is not so much an issue anymore... You are right when you say that PCI (limited to 133MB/s) has less theoretical bandwitdh versus AGP (in 8x mode peaks to 2128MB/s). The real issue is finding a current PCI video card that can talk all of the latest video languages (Nvidia C, directx 9, etc)
When AGP started to surpass PCI as the mainstream graphics port, the developement of PCI vid cards came to a halt. Currently the best you'll likely find is a PCI based Nvidia Chipset FX5200. AFAIK that is the most recent PCI vid card from nvidia, and it will support Directx 9, with Vertex and Pixel Shader 2.0. Bear in mind that this will not generally touch the performance of the higher end AGP, or PCI-Express cards on the market today... it will be one of, if not the fasted PCI card you can put in your system.
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