Accelerated Graphics Port

The Accelerated Graphics Port (often shortened to AGP) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer system, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics. It was originally designed as a successor to PCI-type connections for video cards. Since 2004, AGP has been progressively phased out in favor of PCI Express (PCIe); by mid-2008, PCI Express cards dominated the market and only a few AGP models were available.

Advantages over PCI

As computers increasingly became graphically oriented, successive generations of graphics adapters began to push the limits of PCI, a bus with shared bandwidth. This led to the development of AGP, a "bus" dedicated to graphics adapters.

The primary advantage of AGP over PCI is that it provides a dedicated pathway between the slot and the processor rather than sharing the PCI bus. 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 address and data buses are separated so the entire packet does not need to be read to get addressing information. This is done by adding an extra 8-bit "SideBand Address" bus that allows the graphics controller to issue new AGP requests and commands at the same time other AGP data is flowing through the main 32 address/data (AD) lines. This results in improved overall AGP data throughput.

Angry Grandpa

Charles Marvin "Charlie" Green Jr. (born October 16, 1950), also known as Angry Grandpa or simply AGP, is an American Internet personality. His videos have been featured on HLN's Dr. Drew,TruTV's Most Shocking, Rude Tube, and MTV's Pranked. His YouTube channel, "TheAngryGrandpaShow", has over 2 million subscribers and 400 million views. His second channel, Grandpa's Corner, is his personal channel where he shares stories about his personal life along with a special weekly segment called "Mailbag Monday" where he opens up packages and reads letters sent in by viewers. He also has a fanbase known as "Grandpa's Army", in which he refers to fans as "youngins".

The Angry Grandpa Show

The videos feature Green, who has bipolar disorder (which he takes medication for) reacting, usually angrily, to several things, such as pranks pulled by his youngest son, Michael, also known as "Pickleboy", who works as website webmaster and graphic designer, and current events, such as the Casey Anthony trial. Michael's longtime girlfriend, Bridgette West, is usually in on Michael's pranks but sometimes she will warn Green about upcoming pranks enabling him to turn the tables on Michael. In a 2013 article from the Charleston City Paper, Green stated that he has destroyed numerous articles of furniture, along with electronics, including laptop computers, televisions and cellphones in his fits of rage. He also made some more serious videos, such as in April 2012, when Green had posted a video to his main channel that aimed to publicize the proposed sale of his trailer park where he resided at the time, Trailwood Trailer Park, in North Charleston, South Carolina, to a developer who had aimed to rezone it to light industrial to build a road to a new Boeing plant in North Charleston. The sale, however eventually went through and Green relocated to another trailer park later in that same year.