AGP cards NOT decreasing in price--increasing shortage?

[jevans64]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: jevans64
I will be sticking with AGP/PCI until there are several PCIe 1x choices for TV tuners, Sound Cards, DV capture cards, Video Switcher cards, etc. I have a $4000 Video Toaster card that I am not going to throw away just to have PCIe. The latest rumor is that ATi WILL NOT make the x1800, x1600, x1300 in AGP, so there is no need for nVidia to have an AGP 7800. It WOULD be nice to have ONE more boost for AGP though.

You know, most PCIe motherboards still have 2 or 3 normal PCI slots, right? You require more?

The Video Toaster eats 2 PCI, I also have a SCSI 320 card ( Toaster needs SCSI drives ) that needs ONE, i also have a TV capture card that needs ONE. That = four. 🙁

I won't have a problem upgrading to PCIe as long as I have choices when it comes to peripheral devices.

It just pisses me off that PCIe is being forced on the PC users knowing that AGP 8x is plenty fast enough to drive the 7800GT/X or ATI 5xx.

I don't plan on buying anymore PCI systems or upgrading the ones I have. Before going to PCIe 16x / 1x, I'd like to see a HDTV hardware capture card ( Hauppauge or ATi ), Adaptec SCSI 320 card, and X-Fi audio card in PCIe 1x.

I also don't care for Prescott-based Pentiums and don't plan to bite until 65nm chips arrive. Why Intel? Video Toaster relys heavily on multi-threading and AMD don't cut it. Intel or AMD. It doesn't matter for the two rigs in my sig and their future replacements.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Hmmm, I dunno about retailers having low stock of 6800GT's but I have one 😉

For those worried about upgrading, I'd sell the AGP video card now and get a PCI-E mobo & GPU. Personally I've got a S754 AGP system and I don't much care to try to upgrade now. I don't use a desktop enough to make upgrading worth it, which is why I'm selling my 6800GT for an unlockable 6800. Anyway, for me upgrading from S754->S939 isn't worth it. I'll wait till M2 or later; maybe even just keep my S754 and get a dual core laptop (Yonah or Turion) 😉

 

[Fenuxx]

This whole AGP thing from ATi and NVIDIA makes me absolutely SICK 🙁 !!! There really is no "legitimate" reason that they can't make any more AGP cards. Remember the R&D they BOTH spent on their bridge chips, that were supposed to be able to work from AGP->PCI-E and PCI-E->AGP? Why can't they use those? THEY CAN!!! They just don't want to, as they're trying to force PCI-E down everyone's throat. Complete and total CR@P if you ask me!!!