lol, I wouldn't say crap... but
We both have the same problem, if your going to buy memory you really need 2G now a days.
There is problem one, you'll probably need DDR2 not DDR for your next machine.
Video cards are really pissing me off too.
The "best" reasonable card to get in AGP is a 7600GS or x850 they both run in the 150-200 range.
Not bad at all, but considering you can spend 200 and get a 7900GT which totally smashes both of those cards? Well your kind of an idiot spending 150-200 in AGP... unless you have some kind of kick ass AGP system already. Also considering the 8-series n-vidia is coming out those 79XX's are going to come down in price.
What truly PO's me is we never maxed out the AGP 8x anyways. There is truly no reason why the graphics people couldn't make a 7900GS or X1900 in AGP format.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong... but here are some facts!!!
An X850XT AGP generally out performs or matches the performance of the PCI-E.
AGP 8X basically offers the bandwidth of PCI-E 8.5x a little better than half a PCI-e 16x.
So what can PCI-E cards do with 8x PCI-E? Well how about quad GPU's with a two dual GPU cards in SLI mode. This can be done over a 8x 8x configuration.
Now are the graphic manufactures telling us that PCI-E is better or just cheaper for them.
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Anyways if I could I'd buy a 7900GT for 200 bucks in AGP like you can in PCI-E.... hell, tommorrow, I'd buy two.
Last edited by vjs (2006-10-31 08:10:31)