Why Go PCI-Express?

[alexkellaris]

Why upgrade you whole system motherboard chip and memory to go PCI-Express? All I did was Upgrade my Chip and I bought a 7600 AGP GFX card.

Cost me about R2000 alltogether, instead of paying like R5000 for a full system upgrade.

Ill rather do a full system ugrade when Vista comes out...

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Ill rather do a full system ugrade when Vista comes out...

Which is in a few months, so why waste R2000 now with an old AGP card that will have little resell value, even in a few months?

 

[4nT1_8unNy]

Well you were probably going to have to upgrade some or other time to PCI-E when the AGP cards get really limited in choice and stop being made altogether.

 

[The Big Firefly]

Why upgrade you whole system motherboard chip and memory to go PCI-Express? All I did was Upgrade my Chip and I bought a 7600 AGP GFX card.

Cost me about R2000 alltogether, instead of paying like R5000 for a full system upgrade.

Ill rather do a full system ugrade when Vista comes out...

R2000 down the drain...

 

[alexkellaris]

Vista

Vista will work perfectly well with all th 7series GFX cards.

 

[doobiwan]

Sure it will, and while that's not a bad way to stay in the game for the mean time, there's 3 issues I have with upgrading my current AGP rig (be thinking about it)

1. AGP cards do not perform the same as the similarly marked PCIe cards, the bang for buck is a LOT less.
2. Short term win, long term loss, my rig will last me a few more months, barely
3. The baseline of my AGP rig is pretty low (I'm still using an Athlon XP2000) and that can't be upgraded.

You may / may not have similar issues, that's just my thoughts on it. I'm looking to upgrade after the next round of midrange graphics cards are release 8x00 series etc.

 

[AntiThesis]

Yeah look, you may have saved some cash right now but AGP is on the way out.

This is rather like asking "Why upgrade to a DVD player? My VCR still works great."

Yes it does but not for very much longer.

 

[alexkellaris]

Yeah I suppose you guys are right, Its just that my option was Upgrade my whole PC and get a 7600 Pci-Express or upgrade just my chip and get a 7600 AGP.

I would have paid R3000 more and had almost exactly the same thing.

 

[The Big Firefly]

Yeah I suppose you guys are right, Its just that my option was Upgrade my whole PC and get a 7600 Pci-Express or upgrade just my chip and get a 7600 AGP.

I would have paid R3000 more and had almost exactly the same thing.

but then you were set for the future...

 

[alexkellaris]

but then you were set for the future...

Not really, because in 2 years when I upgrade again its quite likely that even if I went PCI-Express I still might have to do a full system upgrade, there might be new memory out in 2 years.

Cpu's might be running at 128bit which would mean I need to get a new mother board anyway, so spending that R3000 in 2 years might be a better option.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Ja, that is why im going 939 now instead of AM2.

I can get 1 gig of DDR400 memory for cheaper than 512mb of DDRII, and the board/chip is cheaper too. Now im only going to upgrade from this new system (X1900GT) in a few years max, so ill probably get something better than AM2 anyway. In between I can still get up to a 4600X2 so im covered for dual core, and any new gfx card will be fine.