the pci express mobos

[Gajdycz]

are in at newegg.com 160 bucks

 

[blackeye]

I dont think anyone in their right mind would buy PCI expsress when its slower then AGP right now. The only logical reason for getting PCI exspress right now is that you have a better upgrade path down the road.

 

[lePobz]

If you want a 64-bit AMD rig and a PCI express slot, you'd be silly to buy one now, since nForce4 isn't out... nForce4 being seriously sweet.

...and PCI-Express is not slower than AGP - the cards might be at the moment but the ports certainly arent, and the faster cards around the corner will be too fast for AGP.

 

[blackeye]

I meant the performance of the cards not that the actual slot is slower. 16x vs 8x it doesnt take a computing degree to figure that out.

 

[Asus]

The benchmarks showing PCI-E slightly below the AGP version are that way because they are tested on completely different systems and you cannot get a direct comparison.
The new Intel P4 'Prescott' is not as an ideal system for gaming when you have great systems like P4 'Northwood' and Athlon 64 around.
Sadly 'Northwood' will not be continued as 'Prescott' is here to replace it. Athlon 64's obviously will get their PCI-Express chipsets and boards later this year. Nvidia will release their nForce4 in the Fall as well. :thumbs:

 

[Tr0n]

I knew asus was gonna post something!

 

[ZoFreX]

Just watch out for gyppo cards that aren't true pci-X, but are just agp cards with a chip to make them work in pci-X slots (nudge, nvidia, nudge), they won't have a speed advantage over their true pci-X counterparts.

 

[Synthos]

heh, you might want a pci-express for the sli geforce 6800s 0_0
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1728/
that's one reason

 

[blahblahblah]

*Sigh*

Those LGA 775 boards are horrible. I saw one the other day and decided to touch the pins and see how easy they bend. With one light touch, I managed to ruin a display motherboard. hehe.

I also saw one of the new LGA 775 heatsinks for Prescott, they are gigantic. They put my Zalman flower to shame.

 

[lePobz]

I'm waiting for nForce4 before going 64-bit + PCI-E ... I just hope they keep an AGP slot on their early boards aswell as PCI-E, because I don't want to get rid of my new X800XT Platinum just for the sake of swapping it with a PCI-E version.

 

[Asus]

I'm waiting for nForce4 before going 64-bit + PCI-E ... I just hope they keep an AGP slot on their early boards aswell as PCI-E, because I don't want to get rid of my new X800XT Platinum just for the sake of swapping it with a PCI-E version.

If a board has both PCI-Express and AGP the AGP will take a slight hit compared to todays AGP implementation. Nothing major though.

 

[lePobz]

If a board has both PCI-Express and AGP the AGP will take a slight hit compared to todays AGP implementation. Nothing major though.

Yeah, that's if the chipset (or an external chip) bridges an AGP port out of the PCI-Express ports... we don't know much about nForce4, they may have kept AGP controllers alongside PCI-Express for both... you never know, fingers are crossed.

 

[Asus]

Soundstorm is back (Soundstorm 2)...That's all I care about.

 

[lePobz]

Tru, I want to know what's changed... I'm guessing it will be 7.1, but what can they improve from SoundStorm? it's literally perfect... only lacking in Inputs, maybe that's what SS2 will have (not that i'd use them)

 

[NJD2003]

Me and you Asus, I can't wait for Soundstorm 2.