How soon would you "guess" AGP would still be available on current motherboards?

[eno]

I have a pretty nice game rig that is running a 2.2ghz AMD64(OC 2.5) and a BFG 6800GT(stock). Well I am building up my other system into a MediaCenter PC that I want to play games on the DLP with. Well I had a 6600GT that I was going to use but it turned out to be defective so now I am in the market to buy a card. The board is a Abit IS7 with no PCI-E slot so I am having to stick with AGP. I know the speed of my 6800GT in AGP is great but I am wondering for future sake , if you all thought AGP would still be available on future high end boards. I can get some good deals on video cards so before tax I can get another BFG 6800GT AGP for 280$. I just am thinking I hate to have two high end cards that I won't be able to install into my next board/cpu combo I end up buying later on towards the end of the year.

1.) If I get this BFG6800GT , do you think I will be able to buy the top of the line CPU/MB combo's that come out towards the end of the year or will they all be PCI-E by that time?

 

[nitromullet]

Going forward, all high end motherboards will be PCIe. This is almost the case already. There is no chipset for LGA775 that isn't PCIe and the only chipset that supports AGP for socket 939 is nForce3. I'm also quite sure than no motherboards supporting dual core cpu's will be AGP. That being said, if you can get an AGP 6800T for $280 it would probably still be worth it. I imagine that AGP will still be pretty decent for another year, but you just won't find the top end parts coming out with AGP support.

 

[Koyanisquatsi]

For the record the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset also supports AGP for socket 939