AGP Remaining Lifetime

[RakuraiTenjin]

I did a search but couldn't find a topic here.

With the emergence of PCI Express ports, how much longer do you think the AGP will still be in wide enough use to buy easily for new cards?

A year? Few years?

I'm curious as to people's opinions, will influence my mobo choice/pricing.

 

[Asus]

I think that popular motherboards will still offer AGP for quite some time.
AGP highend graphic cards will probably not be ATI/Nvidia's priority much longer with PCI-Express boards for AMD and Intel being available.

As for a timeframe, I'd say it will be about a year when high-end parts are PCI-Express only. Mainstream cards will probably still be AGP. Depends how much ATI/Nvidia want to keep spending on different product lines.

If you are looking to AMD, tonight I just found an Asus nForce 4 (S939) board with SLI (2xPCI Express 16x slots) on zipzoomfly. Cost a pretty penny but if it's anything like the nForce3 boards when they first came out then the price will be dropping shortly to about 150-180$.

 

[Nex321]

If you are looking to AMD, tonight I just found an Asus nForce 4 (S939) board with SLI (2xPCI Express 16x slots) on zipzoomfly. Cost a pretty penny but if it's anything like the nForce3 boards when they first came out then the price will be dropping shortly to about 150-180$.

Did they have them in stock? And found this in zipzoomfly: eVGA e-GeForce 6800 GT PCI Express for $699, who the hell will buy those for that price??

 

[[Matt]]

As for a timeframe, I'd say it will be about a year when high-end parts are PCI-Express only.

ATI will not be supporting AGP at the very high end of the market. only at the mid range and low end part of the market. The newly announced X850 cards are PCIe only...

 

[Tinneth]

Im about to get an X800 XT AGP and that should last me at least 2 years to come. I think I would be able to upgrade my motherboard to one with an AGP if I need to upgrade my AMD Athlon XP 3200+.

 

[[Matt]]

Im about to get an X800 XT AGP and that should last me at least 2 years to come. I think I would be able to upgrade my motherboard to one with an AGP if I need to upgrade my AMD Athlon XP 3200+.

All new motherboards 2 years from now will be PCIe

 

[Tinneth]

Yeah but the chances are im not going to be buying a BRAND NEW motherboard..ill probably buy the latest AGP board at that time. Games will run fine like that.