PCI Express for 7800 GTX cards? No AGP?

[XPerties]

Being out of the loop I was looking at new video cards and it is true, from what I can see, any and all Nvidia 7800 GTX cards all come in PCI Express?

I have a Asus p4c800-e deluxe and really don't feel like upgrading the motherboard. My current video card is a radeon 9800 pro and it run BF2 ok but leaves black spots and sometimes crashes after a few hours of playing the game so i wanted to upgrade.

I'm looking at a 6800 GT but I need to make sure my upgrade is good enough as far as performance jump.

Your thoughts?

[ripken204]

yep they are all pci-e and no agp will be made

defintely go for the 6800gt tho, it will kill a 9800

Edited August 8, 2005 by ripken204

[Jeremy]

*Feels less confident about his ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with VGA Silencer.*

Edited August 8, 2005 by Jeremy

[Porn Loader]

yep they are all pci-e and no agp will be made

defintely go for the 6800gt tho, it will kill a 9800

while definitely a nice upgrade fom a 9800, you might want to hold off on the 6800gt. ati has stated that they will use their bridge chip to convert their next gen highend cards to agp. considering that the pci-e cards were just certified by PCI-SIG, maybe in 2-3 months you'll start seeing high/higher end ati cards in the agp form factor....?

[XPerties]

Nah, can't hold off. p***ing me off with this 9800 pro giving me small black dots and sometimes locks up during a heavy chopper fight.

Heading out in a few minutes to pick up a 6800 GT "OC" from BFG. I figure by throwing this in and another 1 gig of corsair extreme gaming memory things should be good.

[PaCiNoLiFe]

I hope your correct Porn Loader about ATI because I feel as nvidia took a dump in the lap of all the people who can't afford to upgrade to a PCI Express motherboard especially if they have a top end AGP motherboard like myself. I understand PCI Express is alot faster than AGP when it boils down to it but if the consumer is willing to take the bandwidth loss then why not make an AGP card version of the high end cards. I currently have a 6800GT and love it to death but was holding out for the 7800 only to find they are only going PCI Express. I will definetly switch to ATI if they do indeed release their next gen highend cards to AGP as they show loyalty to the consumers who can't afford to upgrade unlike nvidia leaving many of us out in the cold.

Edited August 9, 2005 by PaCiNoLiFe

[ripken204]

pornloader is correct, i wasnt sure about it b/c i only pay attention to nvidia so i googled it and hes right.

[Porn Loader]

the thing is....

the ati cards are supposed to launch at the beginning of sept. can ati's ihv's get stock to the stores by then? if they end up doing a paper launch, then that does not bode well for ati after nvidia announced/launched on the same day. prepare to watch their stock drop even more (once ms starts paying for the xbox chips you'll see a nice rebound but those wont hit the earnings sheet till ptrobably Q2 next year). at launch it'll probably be the pci-e cards only. then who knows how long after that till the agp versions start hitting the shelves? my guess would be an additional month minimum.

@ xperties:

i wasn't planning on going pci-e this soon. bought my 939 and a dfi nf3 w/ agp the last week of june. 7th of july dell posted a deal on the 7800's $491 plus tax in some areas. i was figuring it would kinda be like the 6800 ultra launch, prices sky rocketing etc.. but with better availability. well you can pretty much get a 7800 for ~$500 anywhere now. so i kinda got burned but im still happy. great card.