New bridge chip to bring GeForce 8 series to AGP
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Sep 2007 22:36    Post subject: New bridge chip to bring GeForce 8 series to AGP
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Due to continued demand, particularly from Internet cafe and emerging markets, for AGP-based products, Nvidia is scheduled to launch an updated bridge chip which supports the company's newer GPUs in October, according to sources at graphics card makers.

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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Sep 2007 22:52    Post subject:
Hahhaha. Now I can keep my outdated PC even longer. go AGP!!!


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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Sep 2007 23:50    Post subject:
yeS nOW mE Pentim 3 can FeEl the POwez OF GEFORCE 8800 on AGPz
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 01:26    Post subject:
lol damn, talk about a bottleneck, they might as well release a few updated CPU's as well lol.


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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 01:27    Post subject:
AGP will Live FOREVER! Smile
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 01:59    Post subject:
AGP-E FTW!
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 02:07    Post subject:
BlueSkyz wrote:
yeS nOW mE Pentim 3 can FeEl the POwez OF GEFORCE 8800 on AGPz


is your shift/caps lock button wiggin out on you?


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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 02:26    Post subject:
SpykeZ wrote:
BlueSkyz wrote:
yeS nOW mE Pentim 3 can FeEl the POwez OF GEFORCE 8800 on AGPz


is your shift/caps lock button wiggin out on you?

I HaS FoUnD a NEw BtttOnz to plAyZ Laughing

now i am tired must sleep , eat , work and go back home to have some fun Sad

bed here i come

anyway WHO IN THEY right mind would be still on AGP ?
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 03:40    Post subject:
BlueSkyz wrote:
SpykeZ wrote:
BlueSkyz wrote:
yeS nOW mE Pentim 3 can FeEl the POwez OF GEFORCE 8800 on AGPz


is your shift/caps lock button wiggin out on you?

I HaS FoUnD a NEw BtttOnz to plAyZ Laughing

now i am tired must sleep , eat , work and go back home to have some fun Sad

bed here i come

anyway WHO IN THEY right mind would be still on AGP ?


donate and i'll join right mindz Very Happy

but then again upgrade and wait for Crysis? pffttt Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 04:49    Post subject:
There are still lots of people who are running the 939 Socket (like me) that uses AGP (not me) So they can be running a good dual core setup but with an AGP card so this is a good deal for them.

heck...Asrock did an AM2 socket board with an agp...

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=443859

so really, the bottleneck will just be on the GPU end


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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 08:18    Post subject:
isnt this like putting a body kit on a lada or some shit... i mean yeah sure its a little cooler, but its just not worth it..


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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 12:46    Post subject:
chiv wrote:
isnt this like putting a body kit on a lada or some shit... i mean yeah sure its a little cooler, but its just not worth it..


no it's rather making Lotus out of Lada Wink

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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 14:29    Post subject:
Good news for the AGP users thats for sure.


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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 14:38    Post subject:
no its bad news for agp users... it'll make them think agp is still 'good enough' rather than moving on... we cant have progress if we dont push people forwards!!


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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 14:42    Post subject:
chiv wrote:
no its bad news for agp users... it'll make them think agp is still 'good enough' rather than moving on... we cant have progress if we dont push people forwards!!


lol read your own post a lil closer, if AGP sucks ass they'll soon realize it and be like, wow, I can't handle this shit anymore, im going PCIe


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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 16:48    Post subject:
Well, when they only get half the performance a real GF8 card gets, that should be enough, right? Right? NO! I thought the same with the Radeon 1950XT (or whatever), that they will ditch that crappy old interface (AGP) for the newer, much better one (PCIe). Rolling Eyes

I think the real reason nVidia is doing this is to remove AMD as the current best AGP seller.
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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 22:22    Post subject:
That and they needed to get a DX10 card out for vista. Still plenty of customers that would love to see DX10 or whatever that has AGP. AT least there not a monster of a company that wants to push everyone in the same direction, they at least support where it's needed/wanted


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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Sep 2007 22:23    Post subject:
Awesome, can finally got a x264 accelerator for my HTPC which only has a AGP mobo!
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PostPosted: Thu, 13th Sep 2007 09:23    Post subject:
Great news! I was glad that I had not to buy a new board/ram/cpu when I upgraded from my old 6800gt to 7900 - and now (if these rumored "products" really come to the market) I can even "survive" a new gpu generation without upgrading the rest of the hardware. 8800-AGP, you may come.... Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu, 13th Sep 2007 10:06    Post subject:
Tydirium wrote:
Great news! I was glad that I had not to buy a new board/ram/cpu when I upgraded from my old 6800gt to 7900 - and now (if these rumored "products" really come to the market) I can even "survive" a new gpu generation without upgrading the rest of the hardware. 8800-AGP, you may come.... Very Happy


that 8800 won't do you any good, in order to take advantage of it's speed you need the PCIe bus speed to transfer the information. AGP 8x isn't that fast so you'd be getting hardcore bottleneck losing the power of the 8800, unless they downclock it but even then, it wouldn't be an 8800 than.


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PostPosted: Thu, 13th Sep 2007 10:14    Post subject:
i personally think it was too early to get rid of AGP and same goes for IDE . Also in my opinion they shoulda at least waited with PCI E till AM2 instead of putting it on 939 , well what i mean with that is AM2 came out too early also .
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PostPosted: Thu, 13th Sep 2007 11:20    Post subject:
SpykeZ wrote:
Tydirium wrote:
Great news! I was glad that I had not to buy a new board/ram/cpu when I upgraded from my old 6800gt to 7900 - and now (if these rumored "products" really come to the market) I can even "survive" a new gpu generation without upgrading the rest of the hardware. 8800-AGP, you may come.... Very Happy


that 8800 won't do you any good, in order to take advantage of it's speed you need the PCIe bus speed to transfer the information. AGP 8x isn't that fast so you'd be getting hardcore bottleneck losing the power of the 8800, unless they downclock it but even then, it wouldn't be an 8800 than.


really? well, performance loss is to be expected under these circumstances, but I presume there will be a difference to my 7900 if I "upgrade" to a "rumored" 8800-agp model, wont it? - even if its not going to be as fast as its PCIe counterpart. I would really like to play Crysis without having to buy a complete new machine Very Happy

I play most games in 1280x1024, sometimes even lower (1152x864 Bioshock), I am not using AA or AF in overdosis, so I am actually already living with the "limitations" my actual hardware (Athlon64 3200, 1,5 gig ram) may provide even on the 7900, so I am willing to accept these side effects Wink

I am sure there will be a lot of performance testing by the usual suspects hardware websites so we will see what this is all about - and if its worth the money or not ...
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