6800 GT on AGP

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Jazeker

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Just bought a 6800 GT on AGP 8x

Is that a wise choise ? I need a new video card anyway as GTA : SA would hardly run on my old creative geforce 440 MX 4. I also was in dire need of a second video connector so I could play DVD's on my old CRT and use my TFT for gaming (8 ms reaction time) and programming/business tasks.

Major question I have (one that will make you video freaks laugh, probably) : is my choice for AGP (as my current PC only supports AGP) wise ? Will I currently be limited ? Will future mobo's carry AGP next to PCI Express ? I am not sure... I would hate to throw the card on ebay or the likes only because I want some AMD64 later down the road...

Thanks for any "adapted to you non-video freak" input you can spare.
 
Preformace wise, oddly enough, AGP seemed to out perform PCIe on this one benchmark I found! However, I'm sure things will even out and PCIe will be the standard.

No, you won't find many, if any mobos with AGP and PCIe slots. i think for now you'll be fine, but later on, you'll about have to use PCIe...
 
The_Other_One said:
Preformace wise, oddly enough, AGP seemed to out perform PCIe on this one benchmark I found! However, I'm sure things will even out and PCIe will be the standard.
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Quite happy to hear this :D

No, you won't find many, if any mobos with AGP and PCIe slots. i think for now you'll be fine, but later on, you'll about have to use PCIe...
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Less happy to hear this :(

Will no mobo manufacturer take into account that I spent looots-a-money on such card and that I want to carry it for three years while I will have to switch mobo in that timeframe ? Man... after the longhorn "we'll adapt to your pc speed" another reason not to upgrade mobo/cpu...
 
I might be mistaken, but I have seen some boards with both... The problem is they are going out fast. Unless you get an older board, you'll be stuck with PCIe on the newer boards, certinlly in a couple years.
 
The_Other_One said:
I might be mistaken, but I have seen some boards with both... The problem is they are going out fast. Unless you get an older board, you'll be stuck with PCIe on the newer boards, certinlly in a couple years.
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you seem to be right, check this out
 
elmarcorulz said:
you seem to be right, check this out
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wow... from your link it seems that AGP + PCI-E is a grand selling plus. Ok... I think if such attitude continues, AGP will just be a commodoty on every mobo like the old serial port and parallel port that have been around since the early 1980's.

Yes yes... I am just talking to myself, telling myself that it will all be allright. Bah... let all mobo's switch to pci-e only soon and I'll quit 3-d gaming ! (yeah right)
 
Thanks for the answers you all. I guess that most people here have their noses constantly in sites like El Reg, Tom's and Ars Technica. So what are your prognoses ? Do you think that the mobo industry will roll out AGP+PCIE boards during the 2 years to come ?
 
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