Do you think AGP video card will undergo price drop in near future?

[dejunjing]

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[Theguynextdoor]

Not anytime soon...

 

[stevty2889]

More than likely, as they become less common, the prices will go up.

 

[AristoV300]

From what I have read they will continue to make AGP cards even with the newer GPU for about 2 more years. My guess is no.

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: AristoV300
From what I have read they will continue to make AGP cards even with the newer GPU for about 2 more years. My guess is no.

Yea, I believe NVIDIA just released a new AGP( 6600???) that just kicks butt right now. I'm thinking about replacing my 9600xt with it in the next couple months. It has impressive benchmarks as well. AGP isn't going anywhere for awhile.

 

[tart666]

Originally posted by: AristoV300
From what I have read they will continue to make AGP cards even with the newer GPU for about 2 more years. My guess is no.

ye, but's things are beginning to change... X700 not avail in AGP right now. REally too bad, cause it's the best price/perf card right now. (edit) Beats 6600gt while costing up to $50 less..

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: tart666

Originally posted by: AristoV300
From what I have read they will continue to make AGP cards even with the newer GPU for about 2 more years. My guess is no.

ye, but's things are beginning to change... X700 not avail in AGP right now. REally too bad, cause it's the best price/perf card right now. (edit) Beats 6600gt while costing up to $50 less..

...once an AGP version is released I bet it'll get the same markup that the AGP 6600GTs have now.

 

[gobucks]

Uh, the X700XT pretty much ties the 6600GT, of course it doesn't exist. The X700 Pro is slower, but has more memory (which will probably be moot, since it will likely be a pretty slow card before the 256MB memory plays to any big advantage), and that card costs the same as an 6600GT. The X700 isn't even in the same league as the 6600GT. What the X700 does beat up on is the 6600, due to the huge amound of crippling nvidia did to its maistream part (it runs at about 50-60% of 6600GT speeds, as opposed to the X700, which runs at like 80-85% of the X700XT speeds). That's probably what you are referring to.

Anyways, AGP will still be around for a while, but it's gonna be mostly leftovers. ATI and nVidia are basically making sure that the best values will be on PCIe in order to make it more attractive. This is why 6600GT and X700XT/Pro are PCIe only (except for the 6600GT, which was just released on AGP), and future products like ATI's X850XT PE/XT/Pro and the X800/X800XL and NV41 will all be PCIe only. Also, ATI has said that they have no plans to make any of these new cards or the X700 ones in AGP form. Hell, even the best entry level (6200) is PCIe only. The main hardware on AGP will be leftovers from this generation on clearance, with occasional AGP new releases, which will come several months behind their PCIe counterparts and will be substantially more expensive (just like 6800/X800 series PCIe cards are now). Basically, look at the situation with PCI cards over the last few years, and imagine that the AGP situation will not be much different.

 

[imported_Zeke]

yeah, ati = no more agp cards

 

[Algere]

I think it'll be similar to the price trend of today's PATA & SATA devices.

 

[jterrell]

The AGP cards will increase in value for a long while.
People do not want to lose those socket 754 boards or the socket 939 they bought recently.
The supply will be lowish and demand high.

The 6600 GT AGP version is like 70 bucks more than the pci-E version.

 

[XRdirtHead]

not for a long time.
Go to newegg.com and look at the prices of the cards that are last year or the year befores models and they still are getting what I think to be way too much money for them. The prices don't seem to drop way down just because they are outdated. Its really strange the way they hold their value long after they should have been fazed out.