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PCI-E Worth it?

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Bigntasty

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Does PCI-E really have a big advantage over AGP x8? Basically I'm building a new computer and my power supply doesn't have the 24 pin connector (for PCI-E mother boards) so is it worth it to buy a new power supply to get a PCI-E motherboard.

My system will have

AMD 64 3000+ 939
1gig Geil PC3200


Haven't figured out the rest of it yet
 
Yes. PCI-E, IIRC, offers increased bandwidth and is the wave of the future.


EVen if you don't want a PCI-E card now, in the future you will...So make room for future upgrades and go ahead and get it all ready now.
 
There is no visible performance benefit...yet. It may take a long, a very long, time for games to be able to saturate the PCIe bus, I don't even know if they are able to do the same to the AGP bus. One thing PCIe has over AGP is upgradability as the industry is moving to this new technology and so AGP will eventually go the way of the dodo.
 
I wouldn't upgrade my mainboard and cpu just for PCI-E now, but the next time I upgrade I probably won't have a choice.

Since you're upgrading already, you might as well go for it. That way you can save your video card or mainboard independantly if you decide to change something later
 
I was facing the same decision - and decided to get PCIe for my new system

The reason is because when I bought a system in 1997 I opted for AGP even though everyone was saying that there was no reason in getting AGP because PCI was still going to be produced for the forseeable future and the benchmark scores between the two weren't drastic.

I'm hearing the samet thing about pcie. I'm not sure how analogous - from a technical perspective - the two situations are from the standpoint of immediate relative gain. But the biggest criticisms I've seen are people saying that the 8x potential hasn't even been realized so why get something that has twice the potential. And AGP cards will still be produced for a while.

I'd heard it before and it seemed clear to me that if I am going to upgrade, then I want something that has a larger upgrade path.

Is it worth it? Do you plan on keeping the same board for a while and want it to be upgradeable - seems to me that the answer is yes.

After all, it seems that it's less a risk than SLI which is just nVidia now with ATI coming with their own 'version' down the road. Both companies are developing for pcie
 
it has no performance benefit in games now over agp

but it may in the future

and it is the future video card standard

so if i was building a computer now i'd get pci-e so i could upgrade it in the future
 
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