Is AGP oficially dead?

[PaCiNoLiFe]

It seems that ATI is now on the nvidia bandwagon and is going to release there new high end card only for pci express. Does this definitely spell DOOM for AGP??? Tell me what you think because i'm p***ed off myself as pci express isn't that much faster than AGP from certain magazines i've read so why are they crapping all over the people who can't afford to upgrade.

[trickytwista]

well i wont be upgrading anyways as i have a 8x agp 256mb msi card and it loves every game i throw at it........

[Scubar]

i dont think its the death of AGP just yet. there are still good cards that will handle any game you throw at it. the 9800 Pro being one of them. a truly fantastic card and absolutely dirt cheap to buy now. The only problem is that PCIe is soon becoming outdated. i read somewhere a while back that ( if i remember right, correct me if im wrong) intel have already come up with a PCIe 2.

[ripken204]

it has to be the death of agp, b/c there are no more new mobos with agp. just b/c there are some good cards with it doesnt mean that its still alive, by next year they will suck and there will be no agp.

[Maleko]

I don't think AGP is dead yet, they are still selling them etc, and a lot of people use them, but they will phase them out, just as they do with all old technologies, so yes probably in a years timne it will all be PCI-E....then it will be sommit else, etc etc

[ripken204]

well yes they are selling them b/c the still have alot left, the will definetly be phasing out by producing less and less each day

[Thai3g_Eclipse]

As ripken204 stated, AGP is dying. There are virtually no motherboards being produced now with AGP slot at all. Nvidia and ATi will not be releasing any AGP counterparts for the 7000 series and X1x00 series respectively. Yes, you can obviously find AGP cards everywhere, but when your store still has many quantities of those items in stock you won't just throw it away.

Edited October 8, 2005 by Thai3g_Eclipse