is it time to get a pci-e motherboard?

1/24/2006 9:44:27 AM

not the pci-e video cards i've seen...you can get an agp card a lot cheaper than a pci-e

1/24/2006 9:50:30 AM

PCI vid cards are cheaper.. but not PCI-E.. they are usually the same or more expensive than AGP but that's because the cards are newer and better versions of the typical AGP cards

1/24/2006 10:04:27 AM

dFshadow is right. card for card...pci-e is cheaper than an AGP equivalent IF the card was designed with pci-e in mind. if the card originally came out on AGP and they adapted it to work with pci-e, then it will probably be more expensive. case in point:

Geforce 6600 designed on PCI-E = cheaper on PCI-E than AGP
Geforce 6800 designed on AGP = cheaper on AGP than PCI-E

1/24/2006 1:57:36 PM