Should I keep my new AGP ATI Radeon X800?

[cityroamer]

Hi,

I just bought a brand new AGP ATI Radeon x800 Pro from my friend, brand new for a cheap price. I am rebuilding my PC and now I realized that PCI-Express is out and that they have an x800 PCI-E card.

Should I keep the AGP version or try to sell it and get the PCI-E instead? This would mean I have to get an AGP board instead of a PCI-E board, so I would miss out on PCI-E. What should I do?

 

[danizaken]

Try to sell it, make the move to pci-e now!

 

[marneus]

newer graphics cards will become more & more rare on AGP over the next year, all the good fast ones will probably be PCI-E only...

Trust me I know what I'm doing... ooops, grab the cat...

 

[noncom]

What is your old rig?

If the X800 AGP videco card fits in that, maybe it can last you a while and you can put off upgrading your system, and maybe get a new system and new video card a year from now.

 

[cityroamer]

My old machine is too old to make good use of the new card. I only have an AGP 2x port on this machine. I guess there is a good point about maybe just getting an AGP board. By the time I'd want to upgrade to PCI-E, it'd be cheap enough to just buy everything new again.

Are only video cards going to be used for PCI-E? I thought PCI-E was taking over for PCI, but I see that the new PCI-E boards also come with old PCI slots.

 

[pauldh]

I am working on a build with a X800 pro PCI-e right now and am surprised just how well it does compared to my 6800U. It's playing NFSu2 at 12800x1024 max details and 2Xaa/8Xaf, and farcry at 1280x1024 high details too. And the AGP and PCI-e versions are equal in speed. If you are happy with 1024x768 or 1280x1024 resolutions, then that is a very capable card.

I'd say, (only because you need a new system anyway), if you find a buyer and can make money on it, sell it. But it's a good card. You could go S939 A64 with a cheap Asrock ULI motherboard that will let you use your current X800 pro AGP and still upgrade to a higher end PCI-e later when you need more speed. That's what I'd do rather than buy a NF3 AGP only mobo now.

That motherboard, an A64 3000+ and 1GB kit of ram will only run you $300 and be a very nice gaming machine. You may need a new case and power supply (350 watt name brand bare minimum, 400W+ better). That's my $.02


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[cityroamer]

I agree 100%. Actually, I decided to go with the ASRock AGP/PCIe board. It's cheap and has gotten pretty good reviews. I'm impressed from what I see so far, so I'll give it a shot.