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Is PCIe the future and when?

4 posts by 4 people · 03 Mar 2005 00:12 UTC - 04 Mar 2005 18:38 UTC

Martin Granberg 03 Mar 2005 00:12 UTC#24155
Looking down the road towards next upgrade. Some way off but GTR might hurry that along. From the little I know PCIe seems to be the future. Is that right? How are prices for cards and MB compared to AGP? What sort of performance boost is there? Is there something else even bigger and better over the horizon? Is there any real point to getting an AGP card now? I mean unless I had to. (Sitting on a 9800Pro right now whixh seems adequete) Thanks
It's a bit like AGP when it was introduced - it didn't offer much at the time but was an evolutionary thing. I'd say in 6-12months time it will be fairly difficult (if not impossible) to buy an AGP version of the latest cards.
Not sure anyone does an AGP version of ATI's top end chips X850 for example? -- Andi. Remove only one zero to reply "Steve Simpson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > It's a bit like AGP when it was introduced - it didn't offer much at the > time but was an evolutionary thing. I'd say in 6-12months time it will be > fairly difficult (if not impossible) to buy an AGP version of the latest > cards. > >
If I was buying a new MB and Card at the same time, I'd go PCIe for sure. Otherwise I don't think I'd worry about it at this point. Just replace what you need in the format you need it in. That may eventually change, but not yet. -Larry "Rudeboy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:EDsVd.558396$8l.205576@pd7tw1no...
Quoted text (8 lines)> Looking down the road towards next upgrade. Some way off but GTR might > hurry that along. > > From the little I know PCIe seems to be the future. Is that right? > How are prices for cards and MB compared to AGP? > What sort of performance boost is there? > Is there something else even bigger and better over the horizon? > Is there any real point to getting an AGP card now? I mean unless I had
to. > (Sitting on a 9800Pro right now whixh seems adequete) > > Thanks > >

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