Any future in AGP?

[orangat]

Well, I thought I'd update you on what I've done

I finally decided to buy a relatively normal 7800GS to tide me over until I basically buy a complete system when I decide to upgrade to Windows Vista and DX10 graphics. Although I didn't realise at the time, I just got the Leadtek card Orangat recommended as it seems competitively priced, potentially has 20 pipes (its not actually confirmed whether it is 16 or 20, there have been lots of conflicting reports on it, but the cores are definitely G71's not the normal G70's), and has a decent amount of overclocking potential, but the clincher was it came with 2 decent games that I don't have, but have considered buying at some point (Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within)
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Download Everest or rivatuner and check the number of pipes. There has been reports that the golden samples were 16pipe versions not the 20 as advertised. The 20 pipes and big overclocking potential with high speed modules is the only reason I would recommend it.

The advent of the 7600gt cards mean that the normal agp 7800gs is totally pointless because the pcie 7600gt has higher fillrates and is a little faster but cost only $150. Pair it with a good pcie mb and you'll still come out ahead of the $270 7800gs.

And dollar for gaming dollar nothing beats the x1800xt which can be had for $220 at egg. Its faster than the 7800gtx 512Mb.