Is AGP totally dead?

Nickface · Post by **Nickface** » February 9th, 2007, 19:19

I need to ask this because i am looking at upgrading, and I potentially have a system I am interested in, but it only has AGP and PCI-X slots on it. Now, I'm a hardware retard. Considering PCI-E seems to be the acceptable graphics standard now, I'm worried I might be left in the dust and unable to compete graphically. Once I get a broader list of specs and a price, I'll share them with you all to see if the pros/cons outweigh each other.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 9th, 2007, 19:28

AGP is kindadead™

Basically, unless you have a fairly nice system with a lower end card in it, you'll be best off abandoning AGP and starting over.

Otherwise you risk sinking $150+ into obsolete hardware, then being inclined to upgrade to another AGP supporting mobo so you can use your shiny new graphics card.

Really depends on your system spec as a whole (and your budget)

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » February 9th, 2007, 20:19

Well at the moment there is no news on a DX10 AGP card, and you can get much faster PCI-E cards than AGP, even for the same price...

But factor in a new mobo and possibly needing a new CPU and memory it get's more expensive to go PCI-E.

Depends how bothered you are about having an obselete system in 12-18 months just to save a bit of money now

Nickface · Post by **Nickface** » February 9th, 2007, 21:00

Here's the specs I do know for the system I'm interested in acquiring:

It's an HP XW8000 workstation

Dual 3.0 Xeons
1GB RAM
Dual FX2000 128MB cards

That's the only info i got on it so far. I can only speculate further on what i can see by looking up general models of the XW8000. From what I can tell there are no PCI-E slots on that particular model.

The price I can get it for is $700

Post by **deject** » February 10th, 2007, 3:07

I would not buy any computer that uses AGP these days. I'm shocked actually that there are still new AGP cards being made, but even those are mid-range cards at best. For that $700, you're better off making a new dual-core rig yourself.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 10th, 2007, 3:15

deject wrote:I would not buy any computer that uses AGP these days. I'm shocked actually that there are still new AGP cards being made, but even those are mid-range cards at best. For that $700, you're better off making a new dual-core rig yourself.

That.

also, a dualy xeon will be of fairly limited use unless you have something specific you need such overkill for.

most will be better with a nice rounded c2d system