The New X1800 cards

  • Thread starter Thread starter hilly22
  • Start date Start date
H

hilly22

Hi
Are Ati going to release these new X1800 X1600 and X1300 for AGP8
Or is PCI-E the new way things are going

I was just wondering as i like new cards and i really dont want t
change my motherboard to a PCI-

Thank

Jerem
 
hilly22 said:
Hi,
Are Ati going to release these new X1800 X1600 and X1300 for AGP8?
Or is PCI-E the new way things are going?

I was just wondering as i like new cards and i really dont want to
change my motherboard to a PCI-E

Thanks

Jeremy
Click to expand...

it will be a very long time before I go PCI-E. When AGP came out
everyone went that way within months, now the question is why ? AGP is
still plenty fast enough and so is my processor an XP3200. MS is not
making 64 bit mandatory as the next OS will be 32 bit capable so 64 bit
can still wait. IOW, why upgrade ? sure I would like an Athlon 64
system, but I can't afford it and the 3200 is meeting all my needs. So,
really the industry jumped the gun, not everyone needs or can afford a
new motherboard just so they can afford a new video card.
 
farmuse said:
it will be a very long time before I go PCI-E. When AGP came out
everyone went that way within months, now the question is why ? AGP is
still plenty fast enough and so is my processor an XP3200. MS is not
making 64 bit mandatory as the next OS will be 32 bit capable so 64 bit
can still wait. IOW, why upgrade ? sure I would like an Athlon 64
system, but I can't afford it and the 3200 is meeting all my needs. So,
really the industry jumped the gun, not everyone needs or can afford a
new motherboard just so they can afford a new video card.
Click to expand...

Actually, what drove the change was Intel removing AGP support from their
most recent generation of chipsets.
 
|hilly22 wrote:
|> Hi,
|> Are Ati going to release these new X1800 X1600 and X1300 for AGP8?
|> Or is PCI-E the new way things are going?
|>
|> I was just wondering as i like new cards and i really dont want to
|> change my motherboard to a PCI-E
|>
|> Thanks
|>
|> Jeremy
|>
|
| it will be a very long time before I go PCI-E. When AGP came out
|everyone went that way within months, now the question is why ? AGP is
|still plenty fast enough and so is my processor an XP3200. MS is not
|making 64 bit mandatory as the next OS will be 32 bit capable so 64 bit
|can still wait. IOW, why upgrade ? sure I would like an Athlon 64
|system, but I can't afford it and the 3200 is meeting all my needs. So,
| really the industry jumped the gun, not everyone needs or can afford a
|new motherboard just so they can afford a new video card.
Click to expand...

I hope you all understand the change to PCI-E and 64bit is only so that the
'players' can resell everything all over to us. AGP has YET to be fully used and
yet we 'need' PCI-E for the throughput.. Riiiight.

I ain't bitting this time.. I'll stick with my current rig.

Pluvious
 
The X1xxx series will be PCIe only.

Pretty soon this dilemma will cease. Next year AMD will be migrating to
Socket M2 CPU with DDR2 memory. I don't think will see any M2 motherboards
with a legacy AGP slot.
 
hilly22 said:
Hi,
Are Ati going to release these new X1800 X1600 and X1300 for AGP8?
Or is PCI-E the new way things are going?

I was just wondering as i like new cards and i really dont want to
change my motherboard to a PCI-E

Thanks

Jeremy
Click to expand...


The X1600 XT will be the best of the new series that comes in AGP.

That's why I gave up on ATI for this generation and went with a BFG
nVIDIA 6800 GT OC AGP. It blows away the X1600 XT in all but one
benchmark I've seen and supports Shader Model 3.0.

It is in my PC right now and I have no complaints...
 
J. Clarke said:
farmuse wrote:




Actually, what drove the change was Intel removing AGP support from their
most recent generation of chipsets.
Click to expand...
so ? doesn't mean VIA, SiS, ans nVidia have to as well
 
hilly22 said:
Are Ati going to release these new X1800 X1600 and X1300 for AGP8?
Click to expand...

ATI has no plans for AGP versions of the X1xxx series. However, the
board makers are free to build AGP versions by the use of the Rialto
AGP-PCIE bridge. Depending on the demand/request there might be some
manufacturers that will offer AGP versions...
Or is PCI-E the new way things are going?
Click to expand...

Definitely.

Benjamin
 
Back
Top