PCI or AGP?

[Storm]

performance wise it wont differ to much if its a AGP or PCI-E board (+card)

the only reason you should get a PCI-E board is if you plan to upgrade in the future......

[muchspl3]

I just going to get 2 of these in SLI. they are only $865 a piece.

Memory 512MB GDDR3
Core Clock 425MHz (vs. 400MHz standard)
Memory Clock 1100MHz
RAMDAC Dual 400MHz
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and lower, OpenGL 1.5 and lower for Microsoft® Windows®
Connectors Dual DVI-I, S-Video
638 million vertices/sec.
35.2GB/second memory bandwidth
http://www.xpcgear.com/bfg68u512pcie.html

[lynx]

PCI is teh future but AGP is now

PCI-E is now, AGP is yesterday. Things change very rapidly in the computer business.

do you think games know what a PCI E is right now???

Do you think games know what AGP is? They don't know and don't care, they just call DirectX.

AGP test says there faster yes

PCI-E may be marginally slower atm, but that's almost certainly down to driver and firmware development. You can't expect all the tweaks that have taken place over several years of AGP tuning to be available in the first few months of a new technology. They were still finding more tweaks for 8xAGP a few months ago.

depends if you wanna spend a lot of cash now on PCI E or wait til next year when there a standard

PCI-E motherboards are slightly more expensive than their AGP equivalent, but not much (except maybe in Aus, but the rest of the world can't help your f*cked up prices) but PCI-E graphics cards are slightly cheaper. Of course, that doesn't apply if you are talking about SLI boards, but then you aren't comparing like for like.

[clocker]

An interesting approach to you quest would be to explore the support available from the manufacturer.

If you have never seen the BIOS from a a64 board you're in for a rude awakening...the options are myriad and very confusing.

Some boards have a rabid enthusiast following and thus, quite a knowlege base about how to set them up.
Other boards ( and I'm afraid my Gigabytes fall into this catagory) leave you pretty much on your own.

DFI has an amazing website/forum with DFI engineers and coders paid to deal with your questions.
You can even question Oskar Wu who is the chief designer and writes the bleeding edge BIOS revisions, too.
The support alone might sway you into getting their board.

[RPerry]

If you have never seen the BIOS from a a64 board you're in for a rude awakening...the options are myriad and very confusing.
into getting their board.

You know, you could have posted that back in january

[clocker]

What fun would that have been?