Once the world understands the blessing of AGP, everything will get better. When AGP texturing is used, CPU performance also decreases. But CPU performance also decreases when an application is swapping textures out of memory via PCI or AGP for the exact same reason. The only way texturing does not impact CPU performance is if all of the texture an application needs can fit in to the local video memory on the graphics board. In most cases, this is not possible because of the size of the textures and not financially attractive to the consumer because of the additional cost required for more local memory.
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