Graphic Card Question Buy or Wait?

[vegettoxp]

Hey Guys, I was just getting read to to buy the Nvidia G-Force 8800GTS 640MB EVGA Graphic Card, but I ran into an interesting article online. It was saying that in Q4 Nvidia plans to release the GeForce 8 Series in PCI-E 2.0 Version. And of course GeForce 9 Series will be PCI-E 2.0 Ready For Sure.

I was just wondering should I get the Graphic Card now or should I wait for the GeForce 8 Series to be PCI-E 2.0. If I have to wait I can wait, but I just wanted to get your guys opinion on this. I just bought me the Samsung 226CW last me and that LCD is off the Hook. I am really having alot of fun with the LCD.

So if you guys can share your opinion on this, it would really help me out. Thank you for all your help.

P.S. Fusion

 

[MarcVenice]

Buy the card, and use the step up program in 3 months from evga to buy a better videocard, if it of course justify's the extra expense. AFAIK pci-e 2.0 won't net any speed advantages on current gen cards though. PCI-e 2.0 simply offers more bandwith, but pci-e 16x barely if at all gets used to it full extent with 8800's.

The next gen videocards from nvidia are going to be backwards compatible with pci-e 1.0 btw.

 

[manowar821]

Hmmm.. Does anyone know if my motherboard (AN9 32x) has PCI-E 2.0?

I never really thought about this until recently.

 

[Cheex]

No it doesn't. The Intel X38 Chipset will be the first to support PCI-E 2.0 and those boards will all be backward compatible.

 

[MarcVenice]

Confirmed ...

 

[aka1nas]

I'm pretty sure that you don't need more than 16x bandwidth for a G80. They might bump up the clockspeeds on the PCI-E 2.0 models like they did with all the AGP 8x refreshes when that came out.

 

[RussianSensation]

There is no point in waiting for PCIe 2.0 specifically. If you are going to wait, wait for GF9. Otherwise enjoy the grahics card now because we don't know for certainty when GF9 will ship. If you get EVGA at least you get 90 day step up. Look at AGP which most thought was going to die a long time ago. It'll take a while before PCIe 1.0 is really obsolete.

 

[Auric]

PCIe 1.1 is to 2.0 as AGP 8x is to AGP 4x. That is, it will be obsolete shortly. The only possible reason for it to linger would be if there was significant cost savings which is unlikely.

There is no reason to hold off on a card purchase given an existing 1.x mobo however it is ill advised to build a new system with same when 2.0 is imminent and is accompanied by other significant improvements -especially if gaming is your bag and/or longevity of a system with plug-in upgrades of GPU and CPU is desirable.