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Following NVIDIA's successful launch of the new 7800 GTX graphics card, crestfallen gamers with AGP rigs have been asking in their droves, 'Where is the AGP part?



NVIDIA's answer as reported by CoolTechZone was coy, but indicated the possibility of an AGP version for their new chip 'if users are persuading enough'.

With unprecedented enthusiasm, members of the online community have responded and set up a petition to show that they can be persuasive and are more than ready to hand over a fistful of greens for an AGP 7800 GTX.

The petition can be found here.

REGENERATI0N Member Posts: 52 Joined: 2003-11-07

#61495 Posted on: 07/01/2005 04:04 PM According to my survey it seems 80% of the users are still using AGP.

Rosco Member Posts: 24 Joined: 2005-02-09

#61496 Posted on: 07/01/2005 05:28 PM Currently, yes. I'm still using my AGP, but my next build next year will certainly be using PCI-e instead.

B3astage Unregistered

#61499 Posted on: 07/01/2005 07:51 PM I'm totally against that , there's no reason to use 7800 on older mobo's and cpu's and in general I'm against keeping old tech alive btw my PC is quite old now (2 years) but I dont mind the companies moving ahead

deez Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: 2002-06-30

#61501 Posted on: 07/01/2005 08:25 PM According to my survey 80% of agp users need to upgrade..lol

DarkMage Unregistered

#61502 Posted on: 07/01/2005 09:32 PM Lol, so people will shell out $600 for a 7800 card, but have no money to get a PCI-E Mobo ?!? Pfffft. I will create an online petition (useless as well) AGAINST an AGP model, lol.

BetrayerX Unregistered

#61503 Posted on: 07/01/2005 11:15 PM In another survey, 80% of the posters need to grow up. Bottomline, PCI-Ex still offers NOTHING over AGP, and the only possible reason to not switching (power) is academic since the 7800 at worst consumes a few watts more than the 6800. There's this another little detail called MARKETING, where you have the chance to sell a product better if you target it for an wider audience. And why switching? does any CPU running in a PCI Ex based mobtherboard offer any significant advantage against the AGP based counterparts? How about memory? DDR at 400MHz runs as fast, if not faster than DDR2 533 because of latency issues, and of course it depends on the test at hand. You might have $600 for the new card but you might NOT have ~$1000 to get the mobo/cpu/ram to go with it....and if 80% of the market still uses AGP, then you can assume many are in that bandwagon. Nothing really against the new technologies other than the fact that they are over hyped, you dont really start to see it's benefits until 2nd and 3rd generations of those products appear.

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