6600GT AGP/PCIe Price Difference

[rstove02]

Went to buy an AGP 6600GT video card on Newegg today and found that there is only 1 AGP version of the card currently being sold.

AGP:
XFX nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Video Card, 128MB GDDR3, 128-Bit, Dual DVI, AGP 8X, Model "PVT43AND" -RETAIL $240

Here is the PCIe version:
XFX nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Video Card, 128MB GDDR3, 128-Bit, Dual DVI, PCI-Express, Model "PVT43GND" -RETAIL $186

I can unsderstand adding a PCIe to AGP bridge will cost a bit more....but $54 more? The only other reason I can think of is that the AGPs are just hitting the market and are either costing Newegg a bit more to buy or they inflated the price a bit during the initial surge of demand.

 

[KoolHonda]

Originally posted by: rstove02
The only other reason I can think of is that the AGPs are just hitting the market and are either costing Newegg a bit more to buy or they inflated the price a bit during the initial surge of demand.

Bingo. The demand for AGP cards will be higher than PCIe cards for quite awhile.

 

[Viper96720]

That and it gotta cost al little more for the bridge chip although not that much difference

 

[imported_Bleh]

Well the memory on the agp version is at 900 mhz I believe while the pci is at 1 ghz. This was supposidly done to offset price of the bridge chip.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Yeah... the bridge makes it so that it will always be higher. There's also a demand for AGP, and since it just came out, the vendors are jacking up the prices a bit.

 

[Demo24]

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[rstove02]

Originally posted by: DEMO24
www.zipzoomfly.com 😉

Thanks, they had the card for $11 less plus free 2nd day shipping (vs. $6 fed ex saver at Newegg) making it a total of $17 is savings plus faster shipping to boot.

 

[ToeJam13]

As from another thread:

Apollo 6800LE (128MB AGP) for $249 (add $4 shipping) via NewEgg.com
XFX 6600GT (128MB AGP) for $227 (add $6 shipping) via GameVE.com
XFX 6600GT (128MB PCI-E) for $173 (add $6 shipping) via Xtreme Gear
XFX 6600 (128MB PCI-E) for $103 (free shipping) via Xtreme Gear

Again, this is a complete rip-off. Nvidia's reference AGP board was "supposedly" made for about the same cost as the PCI-E board. They said the slower (cheaper) memory modules and such made up for the cost of the bridge.

 

[stealth191]

Hello, first post.... 🙂

I was under the impression that the "agp version" of the xfx 6600gt with the bridge chip would allow it to do both agp or pci-e, whichever slot you plug it into. Am I wrong about this? The more I read about it, it seems as though they just created this chip to slap onto their existing pci-e version of the 6600gt creating an agp version (only). If it could do both, I'd be able to keep this card for when I go pci-e later on - rather than buying yet another card with the new mobo. It was looking like a good deal... oh well.

 

[ToeJam13]

Hi Stealth191,

I'm afraid that the AGP bridged version only works in AGP slots. PCI-E and AGP slots are physically different, kinda like how ISA and PCI are different. This prevents you from inserting one kind of card into the other's slot.

So in short, you're stuck with your choice because some much of the rest of the card is different from each other.