PCI Exprss or not.

[Peter H]

Hi all

i am in the process of gathering information so i can update my computer. i have read about the new PCI Express but I was wondering if anyone could give me some information on it. is it worthwhile looking at a motherboard with PCI Express if i am upgrading in the next few month. is is better than AGP right now or is it one of those things that will take a while to work itself out. has anyone got it yet?

Thanks

[glockjs]

well for a good board its kinda spendy right now.... BUT PCI-E is gonna pretty much be the future, so its worth the extra$$$ and yes it's way faster than agp. but then again you could always upgrade the board later

[rallynavvie]

Dunno if it's faster than AGP yet, but it has the potential to be. In fact I bet the 6800 Ultra is barely utilizing the 8x AGP bus bandwidth. PCI-E is basically a 16x bus. My guess is the next gen of video cards will actually make use of PCI-Es faster architecture.

[glockjs]

Dunno if it's faster than AGP yet, but it has the potential to be. In fact I bet the 6800 Ultra is barely utilizing the 8x AGP bus bandwidth. PCI-E is basically a 16x bus. My guess is the next gen of video cards will actually make use of PCI-Es faster architecture.

yeah i read a review that said vid cards are more natural with pci-e...they said somethin like it's actually workin 4x faster than agp. but who knows until we see it on the retail level

[offline]

I've played with PCI-E and am not impressed.
I have yet to compare The Nvida 6800 in AGP
and PCI versions. Some report that the 6800
(as well has the 600 GT) require a special bridge
to work with these cards on PCI, slowing things down.

Who knows.. AGP was pretty much marketing hype. Buy what you can comfortably afford and expect to pay a premium for pci-e v1.0 if that is what you want.

You can't future proof a pc