x900

[Gajdycz]

lets say thats the name of ati soon to be card. for my post plz assume:

it supports sm3
pci expresss and agp,

now, should i get it for agp, or pci express ( new mobo, processor, maybe ram?)

i heard that the x800 perfoems slightly better on the agp slot, so how much longer until agp is killed off?

 

[sHaDdoW]

i think pci express and agp are both going to exist in the future together

 

[Dead-Inside]

I believe AGP will still be the port of choise.

 

[GPRT]

Yeah, AGP will probably be around for the next year or two as manufacturers know people won't just pay for new mobos etc all of sudden so they can change to pci-e

 

[azz0r]

Whats so great about PCI-E?

I thought PCI connectors died like 2 years back.

 

[Link]

If you mean PCI graphics cards, then yes they did. However, PCI express is different as it is an order of magnitude faster than standard PCI:

 

[Malfunction]

PCI-E Provides more bandwith or something for your cards, and you can have dual PCI-E cards, which I've heard, doubles performance.

 

[Link]

You could double your cards up in theory, but the cards themselves would have to support it, and none do atm.

 

[psyno]

lets say thats the name of ati soon to be card. for my post plz assume:

it supports sm3
pci expresss and agp,

now, should i get it for agp, or pci express ( new mobo, processor, maybe ram?)

i heard that the x800 perfoems slightly better on the agp slot, so how much longer until agp is killed off?

I'd say buy according to whichever slot you have on your motherboard. Disregard all else.

 

[Malfunction]

You could double your cards up in theory, but the cards themselves would have to support it, and none do atm.

Yes they do. You can currently get dual PCI-E 6800 Ultras. I don't know if you can publicly buy these yet, but Maximum PC reviewed these and they said it basically doubled their performance.

 

[Gorgon]

Yes they do. You can currently get dual PCI-E 6800 Ultras. I don't know if you can publicly buy these yet, but Maximum PC reviewed these and they said it basically doubled their performance.

Yeah, but the cost is so high, I read somewhere that the Retail price will be $7xx that is £5xx...............wow

 

[Malfunction]

Yep, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Think about it, an Ultra, non-PCI-E costs about $500 (American), so double that, and you got about $1000+.

 

[blackeye]

the x900 will not support PS3.0

And as of right now I believe nvidia has stated that SLI wont reach the market untill december at earliest most likely Q2-Q3

 

[azz0r]

Dont need ps3.0 for another year yet, ps2 has only just started being used.

 

[Johan_Tayn]

the new GeForce 6600s support SLI @ a price of around $199(?) each. Plus all the other PCI-E cards do, too. I read an article on bit-tech about testing two x800 XT PEs and they got STUNNING performance.

 

[blackeye]

SLI is an Nvidia thing. ATI does not have it.

 

[Link]

Yes they do. You can currently get dual PCI-E 6800 Ultras. I don't know if you can publicly buy these yet, but Maximum PC reviewed these and they said it basically doubled their performance.

I stand corrected. Is that review online do you know?