It is hardly news that the AGP interface is slowly being phased out by the faster PCI Express. All new motherboards are now configured for the newcomer. While the graphics chipmakers have acquiesced to market demands with bridge chips that convert native PCI Express chipsets to be compatible with the AGP interface, the introduction of the latest generation of graphics cards from both ATI and NVIDIA seemed to spell the end. NVIDIA initially had no native AGP cards although ATI left that to the discretion of its partners. Recently, this situation has improved somewhat. For those still clinging onto their ageing but still decently fast systems, NVIDIA has a new GPU, the GeForce 7800 GS while for ATI fans, GeCube tries to revive the AGP platform singlehandedly with its Radeon X1300 256MB DDR2.
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Hardwarezone
Feb 24, 2006, 08:49 PM
