"Ryan Atici" wrote in message
...
The PCI-Express might be the future technology to replace AGP video card
slot in the future. Having said that, PCI-Express doesn't offer any
advantage or improvement at this moment in time over AGP video cards for
now. Maybe six months or a year from now, the new technology will fully
take advantage of the new PCI-Express video card and make the PCI-Express
video cards superior over AGP video cards, but for now, that's not the
case.



If you're a hardcore gamer and only want the best of the best performance
at this moment in time from your video card, you will go for an AGP slot
video card. Having said all that, I am disappointed to see that the latest
ASUS motherboard "A8N-SLI Deluxe" named to be a hardcore gamer
"motherboard" doesn't have an AGP video card slot when indeed PCI-Express
video card is not yet as good as an AGP slot video card in performance. I
don't get it...!?!



The question is; don't you think it is way premature to replace AGP video
card slot in a latest ASUS motherboard with PCI-Express when indeed
PCI-Express is not even nearly as good as AGP video cards in performance?



I was gonna build a new computer using the newest and the best components
as available today, but having seen that the latest ASUS motherboard
release (A8N-SLI Deluxe) doesn't support an AGP video card, I am little
upset.

They key here is the SLI. You probably weren't aware of it, but nVidia's
SLI implementation in the nForce4 chipset allows you to use two PCI Express
video cards together for much higher performance than a single card. While
a single AGP 6800 Ultra may be faster than a single PCI-E 6800 Ultra, a pair
of PCI-E 6800 Ultra cards is gonna spank any AGP config. I have seen
benchmarks indicating that in many cases a pair of $200 6600GT cards will be
faster than a single $500 6800 Ultra. That's why it's a hardocre gamers
motherboard.