"Nicholas Buenk" wrote in message
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"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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McGrandpa wrote:

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"YanquiDawg" wrote in message
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Probably a couple more years.There are millions of AGP motherboards
out there
and they are still being made.

Hi all, nVidia, ATI and all other graphics cards, will produce AGP
cards for
how many time?


I agree - it will be at least a year before other cards such as sound
cards, network cards, and the like are out in PCIe format in any
quantity. It will be that long before there are even any graphics
cards that will utilize the potential bandwidth of PCIe, anyway.
There'll still be AGP cards around for a while yet. At least a
couple years.

But more likely, the top end cards will all be PCIx, and mid to low
range cards for AGP.

PCI-E. Not PCIX, despite nvidia's "PCX" brand name. PCIX is a 64-bit
parallel bus that can accept regular PCI boards. It is different from
PCI
Express.

And probably would have been a betters solution, with it's legecy
compatablity. But no they had to go for a cheap serial interface...

I've just built an Nforce2 system where the graphics card was the only plug
in device. I think they thought that for most people the motherboard chipset
devices would do the work of any current Plug in cards and all they need
new is a PCI-e graphics card. That would have been true if a decent audio
solution was in the chipset! For my own new upgrade I went for nforce3 so I
could use my old Santa Cruz sound card to replace the soundstorm I was
losing.