AGP is dead, long live AGP

Robert Hallock 7 Jan, 2008 at 2:55am ET Article published in Tech

There are millions of enthusiasts across the planet who can’t quite afford to make the leap to PCIe, and are locked perpetually in the hope that their platform will receive a few more breaths of life. Your hopes have been answered, it seems!

Enter Powercolor, who has announced the coming of an AGP-based Radeon HD 3850 card. Those of you in the know will realize that this is AMD’s top-of-the-line Radeon card, and should be quite a jump-start for those of you looking to invest in the meager beginnings of DX10 gaming.

Comments

7 Jan 2008 ~ 3:24pm primesuspect Holy wow.. that's a helluva card to put on AGP.
7 Jan 2008 ~ 5:33pm Leonardo PowerColor well sell many, many of those cards. There is a substantial market out there composed of people who enjoy gaming, wanting higher gaming performance, but who only want to upgrade their video capabilities and not the entire computer.
7 Jan 2008 ~ 5:44pm Ryder The new 38xx are more power efficient than the 2900's, but I sure hope someone doesn't slap one of these into too old of a machine...they may be in for a world of hurt
7 Jan 2008 ~ 5:51pm Leonardo

but I sure hope someone doesn't slap one of these into too old of a machine...they may be in for a world of hurt

who only want to upgrade their video capabilities and not the entire computer

Well, in that case, they will be upgrading the entire computer!
7 Jan 2008 ~ 6:47pm primesuspect I thought I read somewhere that the current gen of video cards back a year or two ago could never saturate the bandwidth available on AGP 8X.
7 Jan 2008 ~ 7:48pm Thrax It's not saturation. It's power draw.
8 Jan 2008 ~ 12:20am jhenry Couldn't you put a PCI-x power connector on the card? Most people running a system for that would have a high-power PSU already that would have it...