AGP not dead yet?

Mattly · Post by **Mattly** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:35 am

It has been a long time since the big two focused on AGP designs. There have been tens of millions of AGP boards that have been left with no upgrade path.

Today, however, NVIDIA has heeded the cries of the AGP install base and came to their call. NVIDIA redesigned the G70 in order to give AGP customers what they wanted, a GeForce 7 series card in a form factor they could use. GeForce 7800GS is its model name and retro is its game. Don't be fooled into thinking this is not a good card because it is in an AGP shell. As we will show, AGP still has life left in it.

This card is quicker than the ATI X800XT in most applications and has Shader 3.0 capability

Read the full review: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/02/ ... _dead_yet/

NZ Price = $760 incl GST
talk to Matt at VRConcepts for an even better deal

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:44 am

A rather good move there by Nvidia, I suspect they will sell like hot cakes

Metla · Post by **Metla** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:45 pm

Still far to expensive for the average punter, Last year I think I sold about about 40 or 50 gaming rigs, Not a single punter entertained spending that amount of money on the video card alone.

Liquid · Post by **Liquid** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:22 pm

would like to compare it to a 7800 GTX or GT

A very good PCI-E mobo can be picked up for approx $170. a GT can be found for $550 and a GTX $800 (approx) so $800 for this AGP seems a lot