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Pci Express?

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I'm going to be building the best system I can afford in 2 months, I have the chance to get a 6800gt but I was wondering if it's smarter to wait and get the pci-express version coming out later.

In otherwords is pci express worth waiting for? and I do like running at high res with high fsaa and textures.
 
If you upgrade every 6 months to a year, it isn't worth waiting. If this computer will last you until retirement, then you may want to consider it.

At first launch, there will probably be problems with the boards, so you will want to wait for it to mature a little.
 
Wait until 1000FSB pci-e. The current pci-e is no better than agp solutions. Unless you go sli.
 
I'd say PCI-E is definitely worth it.

Everyone knows Intel is pushing heavily for PCI-E. But so is Sis (SIS 649 chipset) and VIA (890/890 pro with dual PCI-E video) Nvidia (soon to be Nforce 4) and of course ATi.

The upcoming mid-end card from Nvidia the 6600 seems to be targetted specifically at PCI-E.

Sure there is no performance benifit in games yet, but it can help other things in speed, including basic 2D websurfing (its only a half second on every "back" browser click, but its there) Also, the next generation dual and quad on one chip processors from Intel and AMD will run on PCI-E platforms (the serial interface makes it that much easier to do)

Since most videocards (even the 9700 pro to some extent) are CPU limited, the faster CPU's that will mate with PCI-E motherboards may see much more of a boost than having a good videocard alone.

You are limiting yourself quite a bit by staying with AGP unless you want the fastest video performance right now (6800/X800) Which will at least be true until the end of the year.
 
Where did this rumor start about 2d web surfing faster on pci-e?
Faster websurfing is hardly a reason to buy pci-e. Reminds me of the days when intel said your internet experience would be faster with pentium 3 :)

Again with 1000fsb around the corner it be best to wait.
 
I'm sure it has the ability to speed up surfing. Bidirectional interface means you could even use your videocard to do things like decode SETI packets (once/if the proper software is ever made)

A good switch with a 1MB cache per port (like the better Ciscos) are always faster when you press the back button on your browser. I would not see it being very hard at all to code something that would cache image rich webpages to the ultrafast DDR3 instead of having to seek on 100 image lookups on a harddrive (which could easily take a half second or more)

BTW: If I wasn't such a sloppy coder, I'd probably attempt it myself.
 
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