AGP is dead???

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:23 pm

I was just readin slashdot, and they're talking about how everyone knows AGP is dead, almost no new system have agp any more, etc.

Really?

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/02/03/1411212.shtml

I had not heard a single thing about this.......

Post by **Troy** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:37 pm

Urm.. Durr

I bought myself the Last AGP good AGP card tho, The x800xt.. everythign else was not only more expensive, but PCI express only!

Post by **TPRJones** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:43 pm

PCI? What? I thought PCI was the retarted little brother of AGP. No?

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:15 pm

Yeah. I completely missed this little development. I bought a new mobo not 4 months ago with an AGP port.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:28 pm

I bought a mobo about a year ago, and got PCI-E and AGP so I could use my current card and upgrade later.

My laptop (6 months old) has PCI-E.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:29 pm

PCI? What? I thought PCI was the retarted little brother of AGP. No?

PCI is, but PCI-E is twice as fast as AGP can go.

Post by **Leisher** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:17 pm

I try to keep up on the latest tech stuff via the PC gaming mags so I knew about PCI Express, but I'll be damned if I can figure out CPUs these days.

They've gone backwards in speed, but they're faster...

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:51 am

In your defence Gordon, you weren't shopping for or specing a REAL high end PC. And since there probably weren't any low end PCI-E cards at the time, you didn't come accross it.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:24 am

The RAM is what gets me now... especially with all the CAS latency and timing stuff. and the Mhz rating and the, uh, whatever is like 8x times that rating (pc3200 being 400Mhz, etc).

RAM used to be simple.

Post by **TPRJones** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:42 pm

Ahhh! PCI-E != PCI, got it. I missed that part.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:15 pm

RAM has always had CAS, but the low stuff was super expensive. What gets me is that you have to buy slow RAM for the dual channel stuff, instead of the high speed stuff. But, the DC is still faster or something.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:51 pm

I keep waiting for somebody to say, "In my day..."

And we liked it!

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:11 pm

In my day, we had to install each RAM chip individually, none of this "stick of RAM" crap.

AND WE LIKED IT

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:26 pm

In my day, RAM was measured in KB, and we liked it!

Selby · Post by **Selby** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:51 pm

AND we worried about bending the pins!

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:03 am

Everybody knows that ISA will be making a comeback.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:00 pm

EISA kicks ISA's ass.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:03 pm

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:36 pm

Vacuum tube 2.0 is going to be sweeeeeeet! I hear they'll be four times as powerful, and only twice as big.

'While a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 10000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons.'

* Popular mechanics, 1949

Edited By Paul on 1139254815

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:49 pm

I want my punchcards back.