Ryan Atici wrote:
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.

First of all, PCI Express is at least as fast, or faster, than AGP, in
all cases except where the card is using a bridge chip to translate AGP
into PCI Express, which has some performance hit. Secondly, the chipsets
currently available (and expected to be available) that support PCI
Express have no AGP support, so there is no way to have an AGP slot
without running it through the PCI bus and resulting in horrible
performance.

If you are building a new system, why on earth would you want to use AGP
in it?

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