Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: obeseotron
Why would anyone invest in a new high end agp card? I can see someone with a 9700 or 9800 moving up to the forthcoming 6800gs agp, but why would anyone who spends the money for high end graphics want to lock themselves into using an old motherboard? If you want a new cpu in a year there will be new sockets and you won't be able to buy one because it would mean buying a new graphics card as well.
There's nothing wrong with my current cpu & mobo. My CPU doesn't bottleneck the gfx card (6800GT) now, and has plenty of headroom for more OCing.
So, I'd have to replace a perfectly fine CPU & mobo just to get a better PCIe gfx card.
I can afford one or the other, but not both.
I see no reason in upgrading CPU & mobo, I'd need to keep my gfx card so it would have to be a NF3 mobo. But then I couldn't upgrade my gfx card. This would result in pretty much zero gaming performance improvement for several hundred $'s. That doesn't make sense to me?
So, at this point, I'm locked out of the upgrade market :thumbsdown: That's no good for me or manufacturers.
The only sensable (priceerformance) upgrade is another gfx card.
If I had an AXP 1800 on 133 FSB mobo, OK. That kinda rig I can see dumping, it couldn't handle a new gfx card. Time to go.
This may have the effect of pushing peeps to consoles. Thats the only "upgrade" path available for the budget. Keep the old rig to the side to play my collection games, use the console for the newer games.
I don't think nVidia and ATI have thought this (abandoning AGP) out very well. Forcing peeps to move over to consoles ain't gonna help PC manufacturers. Whether it be gfx cards, cpu or ram manufacturers. Nor PC game companies.
Fern