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AGP in the future

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CoSmoCoP

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Hello. I have a question that's bugging me for a while, especially now when I am intending to buy a new PC.

I am going to buy a PC with a Nforce 3 250gb mo'bo, A64, and a XFX6800 (AGP slot ofcourse), and in the future (1 and a half - 2 years from now) I want to replace the 6800 Non Ultra by a AGP card with 512mb dram.

So.. The question is: Are there going to be AGP cards produced equally to PCI-E high-end cards in the future? Or that the manufacturers will just throw the AGP cards to the garbage and flow only with PCI-E leaving no chance for AGP Mo'Bo's to replace the AGP card with a much newer AGP card?

I will be very happy if someone will answer my question. Thanks.
 
Pci express is not exactly taking off by storm....agp will be around longer than was projected 6 months ago. Remember just a few short years ago when agp was fairly new, card makers were still offereing pci models.
 
I really hope you're right.

I don't think it's likely that there will be more new AGP cards as the market is growing... I think that slowly we will see more PCI-E and much lesser AGP.

I fear that there wont be any 6800 or X800 with 512MB DRAM for the AGP slot.
I think that it's wierd that no one actually knows what will be in the future. There are no rumors of more AGP cards in production.

This is not a really amazing situation for AGP mo'bos :\
 
CoSmoCoP said:
I really hope you're right.

I don't think it's likely that there will be more new AGP cards as the market is growing... I think that slowly we will see more PCI-E and much lesser AGP.

I fear that there wont be any 6800 or X800 with 512MB DRAM for the AGP slot.
I think that it's wierd that no one actually knows what will be in the future. There are no rumors of more AGP cards in production.

This is not a really amazing situation for AGP mo'bos :\
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noone can predict the future.....and the only real benefit of PCI-E is its easier for mobo manufacturers to produce............so you can exepct at LEAST agp variants of each new gen for a little while yet....
 
xSyzygy666x said:
noone can predict the future.....and the only real benefit of PCI-E is its easier for mobo manufacturers to produce............so you can exepct at LEAST agp variants of each new gen for a little while yet....
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Everyone can predict the future...just most people would be wrong. Instead of predicting I will offer an educated guess. Given the install base of AGP and the fact that most new processors will not require PCI-Express compliant motherboards to run on for a while, video card manufacturers will almost certainly be offering AGP for, at the very least, all of next year. Like someone already said, I wouldn't worry.
 
Well... Thanks, now I'm calm :p
So there is nothing to worry about for at least next year.
Thanks all, tata :cool:
 
AGP is gonna be around for quite some time. I'd say for high end cards maybe 2 more generations of high end cards on 8x AGP at most. By that time which would be like 2-3 years from now PCI-E would be industry standardized and should start gaining larger grounds and advances than 8x AGP also by that time 64bit processors should be standardized too as both will be mainstream.

So if you don't plan on upgrading or getting a new system for another 3 years then your purchase right now won't hurt, and it diffinitely won't hurt if you get an athlon 64. For me My OC'ed P4 rig will last until the transition is over, at least I hope it does :(

Then again this is only my 2cents and how the market looks from a guy working at a computer store and looking at info from sites such as this.
 
^eMpTy^ said:
Everyone can predict the future...just most people would be wrong. Instead of predicting I will offer an educated guess. Given the install base of AGP and the fact that most new processors will not require PCI-Express compliant motherboards to run on for a while, video card manufacturers will almost certainly be offering AGP for, at the very least, all of next year. Like someone already said, I wouldn't worry.
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I agree. That's more than just an educated guess. It's the law of economics. Anyone who would think differently needs to explain to me why I can buy a PCI graphics card today.

My thought is there'll be AGP variants of the next 3 years' worth of GPU technology at the least.
 
And AMD hasn't even adopted PCI express yet. But once they do then pci-e should get more popular. But PCI-E has problems, I wouldn't be in a rush to jump on it. Intel is having delays with 90nm and had a chipset recall not long ago.

I'm staying away from PCI-E like its the plague, least wait a few generations on the chipset.
Who wants a prescott 100watt super heater cpu anyway, good god.
 
yep...keep in mind too.... That video card makers are NOT intel or amd....95% of us have AGP cards.....and the other 5% (at best) have PCIe "capabilities." It logical to produce cards for the market that can buy them. Also, i personally revolve my ENTIRE system around the video card (all that matters). My Pentium 4 is way more than enough to run any game, and it will stay like that for a while. Im sitting happy with my CPU, just keep an eye on the video department.
 
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