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Originally Posted by CoolFox
Well, hold on there....
What really pisses ME off is how the PC world is going over to PCI express [the serial version of PCI] while AGP 8x has so much life left! The nVidia 6800 does not even come CLOSE to topping out the 8x bus, so why the change of standard?
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No, please don't discourage the PC world from getting rid of old technologies and replacing them with new! Apple did the same thing when they made the iMac USB only --- where were all the USB peripherals? Certainly ADB and RS-422 Serial ports could be used for a while still! (And AT keyboard/PS/2, IEEE 1284 Parallel port, RS-232 serial port, standard "game port", and whatever other junk PCs _still_ have to this very day)
Be glad that the PC world is actually trying to push a little bit of advancement of technology for once. AGP has various messy issues with it, can generally only support one device, is (more) expensive to manufacture (than PCI express), does not supply enough power for many modern graphics cards to run, provides fast transfer only in one direction (reading from the video card is dirt slow.... i.e. regular PCI speed at best. Having fast communication in both directions will open up even more possibilities to core image/core video type things as well as use of the GPU as a [somewhat more] general purpose processor).