Comment Re:Cheaper prices (Score 1) 344
I believe you may have misunderstood, or perhaps I did not clarify. When I upgrade, I will need to upgrade my motherboard. This could very well be a year or two from now.
My point is that unless they keep making AGP counterparts to the PCIe cards that can get similar performance, I will have to make a motherboard upgrade. The AGP 8x cards are backwards compatible, so people with rather old boards could still upgrade to the latest AGP cards. PCIe graphics are not backwards compatible, as there is nothing for it to be backwards compatible with. In other words, now it's definitely going to take a motherboard upgrade to get a new graphics card, unless AGP counterparts to the PCIe cards are continually released.
So it's not that I have money burning in my pocket and I need to spend it. Quite the opposite, actually.
My point is that unless they keep making AGP counterparts to the PCIe cards that can get similar performance, I will have to make a motherboard upgrade. The AGP 8x cards are backwards compatible, so people with rather old boards could still upgrade to the latest AGP cards. PCIe graphics are not backwards compatible, as there is nothing for it to be backwards compatible with. In other words, now it's definitely going to take a motherboard upgrade to get a new graphics card, unless AGP counterparts to the PCIe cards are continually released.
So it's not that I have money burning in my pocket and I need to spend it. Quite the opposite, actually.
