AGP - tomorrow never dies

[mixa]

According to research done by The Inquirer the dying AGP interface is still putting up a good fight in terms of the current top selling ABIT motherboards in the UK.
ABIT's best selling board in UK is AV8-3rd Eye which is based on the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset.The AV8 , without the Guru chip is also placed in its top 10 selling motherboards, at number 7 in fact.
Both second and third best sellers are also based around VIA's K8T800 Pro chipset, with the KM400A and KV8-Pro taking those spots.
Actually we have to go down to 16th place in this chart to find ABITs Fatal1ty AN8 which is NF4 based board and incorporates PCI-E.

Read the full story at : The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24612)

[wazzledoozle]

Does the 6800 Ultra even use all of AGP's bandwidth yet? Anyone know?

[Weigy104]

i know the current pci-e cards can't use all of the available bandwidth which seems a bit pointless. but i have faith in agp i just upgraded my card to connect3d x800pro vivo, i'm very happy with it :D. i was just wondering does anyone know if there are plans to release either the 7800 or the new ati on agp?
i would imagine they would have to or face losing shitloads of customers :cool:

[mixa]

I have faith in AGP too , despite the wish of the PCI-E consulidation to "erase" it.
NVIDIAs won`t release AGP variant of GeForce 7800 series.This is an official NV statement.It is still unknown is there gonna be AGP version of X900
BTW - even 7800GTX is not able to use the full bandwith of 2GB/s of the accelarated graphics port.