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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the 6800Gs?
I had thought that Nvidia had ceased production of all 6800 GPU's -- except
for the 6800GS. The best nvidia GPU available for AGP was the 6800ultra right? -- Doug "Benjamin Gawert" wrote in message ... pigdos schrieb: This is what I read over on Rage3d. That sucks. Really sucks. I don't understand your point. First, Nvidia makes _GPUs_ (ICs), not videocards. Second, they stopped production of GPUs with native AGP interface, but board makers still can make AGP cards by using the AGP-PCIe brigde chip. Third, AGP is dead. The current crop of AGP cards is still fast enough for the latest AGP systems, and next generation cards also want a faster system that will have PCIe. So what? Benjamin |
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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the 6800Gs?
"pigdos" wrote in message
. com... This is what I read over on Rage3d. That sucks. Really sucks. My concern at this point is if most owners of AGP-based systems will have a fast enough CPU in their system to feed some of the uber video cards out there. My main computer (built in 2003) has AGP, but has a P4 2.8GHz Northwood C processor and it's already been proven that you cannot even see the full potential of a card like the ATI X800XL with such a CPU, to say nothing of a card like the GeForce 7800GT/GTX. |
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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the 6800Gs?
"NightSky 421" wrote in message ...
"pigdos" wrote in message . com... This is what I read over on Rage3d. That sucks. Really sucks. My concern at this point is if most owners of AGP-based systems will have a fast enough CPU in their system to feed some of the uber video cards out there. My main computer (built in 2003) has AGP, but has a P4 2.8GHz Northwood C processor and it's already been proven that you cannot even see the full potential of a card like the ATI X800XL with such a CPU, to say nothing of a card like the GeForce 7800GT/GTX. If the title of this thread is true, I'd advise buying eBay stock. Heavily. Absolutely outrageous. As if I'm about to trash a $2,000 P4 3.8MHz computer just to upgrade a ****ing video card. It's sad to see Nvidia trying to shove a new, unnecessary standard down the market's throat. ATI is trying the same thing and their bottom line has been in the ****ter ever since. |
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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the 6800Gs?
I can't really afford to buy any new hardware right now.
Gus "Benjamin Gawert" wrote in message ... pigdos schrieb: This is what I read over on Rage3d. That sucks. Really sucks. I don't understand your point. First, Nvidia makes _GPUs_ (ICs), not videocards. Second, they stopped production of GPUs with native AGP interface, but board makers still can make AGP cards by using the AGP-PCIe brigde chip. Third, AGP is dead. The current crop of AGP cards is still fast enough for the latest AGP systems, and next generation cards also want a faster system that will have PCIe. So what? Benjamin |
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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the 6800Gs?
This is the same self-centered crap that's been thrown around here for
months. "If I'm using AGP and ma aunt Betsy-Mae's using AGP, I figured everyone must be using AGP." Asus alone ships over 1 million PCIe motherboards *per month*. Wonder where they all went... BTW, before 3dfx died, its Voodoo5 cards were the best-selling retail cards ever made. Even such "leadership" couldn't help when the entire retail segment accounts for about 10% of the market. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "tod" wrote in message nk.net... Currently 70% of the graphics card sold are AGP. So AGP is still a money maker for NVIDIA and ATI. |
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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the 6800Gs?
"Glen" wrote in message
nk.net... If the title of this thread is true, I'd advise buying eBay stock. Hard to say, especially since I'll have to take money out of oil stocks... Absolutely outrageous. As if I'm about to trash a $2,000 P4 3.8MHz computer just to upgrade a ****ing video card. It's sad to see Nvidia trying to shove a new, unnecessary standard down the market's throat. ATI is trying the same thing and their bottom line has been in the ****ter ever since. nVidia started the PCIe-only trend with the 7800GT several months before ATi did. Half of nVidia's marketing efforts (SLi) fundamentally hinges on PCIe. AMD users have it a bit easier. All they need to do is change the motherboard (for now), not that expensive compared to the $400-$500 spent on a high-end video card. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." |
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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the 6800Gs?
AMD users have it a bit easier. All they need to do is change the motherboard (for now), not that expensive compared to the $400-$500 spent on a high-end video card. Why do you say that?? My amd 3200 wont fit in a s939 board, and Im not throwing away 2gig of ram just to upgrade the vid card. I can play fear, and cod2, and others, quite nicely at the moment, with a 6600gt. got no problems with fps, or stuttering, or any thing else. Sure I would like to go up to a supercard, but I aint ditching everything. (for a start the missus would kill me. ;-) ) oldwolf |
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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the 6800Gs?
I was referring to Athlon64 owners. A socket-A CPU is of course a different
animal. Your RAM can carry over, though. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "oldwolf" wrote in message ... Why do you say that?? My amd 3200 wont fit in a s939 board, and Im not throwing away 2gig of ram just to upgrade the vid card. I can play fear, and cod2, and others, quite nicely at the moment, with a 6600gt. got no problems with fps, or stuttering, or any thing else. Sure I would like to go up to a supercard, but I aint ditching everything. (for a start the missus would kill me. ;-) ) |
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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the6800Gs?
Glen schrieb:
Absolutely outrageous. As if I'm about to trash a $2,000 P4 3.8MHz computer just to upgrade a ****ing video card. Why should you trash the whole computer? Simply get a new mainboard instead... Benjamin |
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So Nvidia has cancelled production of ALL AGP cards except the6800Gs?
oldwolf schrieb:
Why do you say that?? My amd 3200 wont fit in a s939 board, You have an Athlon XP? and Im not throwing away 2gig of ram just to upgrade the vid card. I can play fear, and cod2, and others, quite nicely at the moment, with a 6600gt. got no problems with fps, or stuttering, or any thing else. Sure I would like to go up to a supercard, but I aint ditching everything. (for a start the missus would kill me. ;-) ) Well, a 6800GT/Ultra AGP is probably the maximum that is useful with an Athlon XP that has several performance bottlenecks. A 7800GTX would be wasted... That's a good example for what I said: it's not really a problem that new cards are PCIe. For your system an ATI X800 or Nvidia Geforce 6800GT/Ultra would be more than enough. Everything higher would require a faster computer to be useful... Benjamin |
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