The introduction of PCI Express as the next standard for PC workstations has brought upon a shift in graphics technology that promises to give animators and effects artists access to huge amounts of graphics processing power. The standard, which will undoubtedly replace the AGP specification and other PCI graphics implementations in the near future, holds a lot of promise in mitigating some of the bandwidth issues that have plagued the PC, while enabling users to manipulate huge amounts of data without farming some of the work to the host CPU.