Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

[DFHayak]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

Bro there is a few over here Asus I believe, but I am in Okinawa Japan. And I would have to pick them up locally for you. You would not be able to have them in your hand over night.
Tell you what, if you find on the net what you want and cant find it in the states, you let me know and I will locate it over here.

[rombaft]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

AGP isn't dead but it almost is .

you will be able to buy AGP cards for another year or two , but then they will get extremely rare

[Jofaba]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

Decided to search unknown sites for a board and came across the same board over and over again, which, as it would happen, turns out to be one of the very few on Newegg! So I'm researching it now and might buy it during my lunch break or later tonight.

[Hephaistion]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

Try using Mwave.com

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA22009

That is where I got mine from.
$65.00
Vs.
$70 at Newegg
I hate dealing with Newegg.com
RMA's are impossible!
The Asrock board is really cool because you can buy this:

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA21339

the Asrock 939 has a 940 bridge right above the PCI-E Slot for future expansion to FX processors.
Say what you may about cheap Mobo's, but this mobo breaks the mold as far as inexpensive mobos go, u will more than pleased with this board. The only complaint I have is the arrangement of the IDE ports and FDD Port (yes I still have a floppy)

[Talus]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150129

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130269

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130274

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143046

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150131

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130272

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130273

[Hephaistion]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

Or better yet:

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA22003

Abit KN8 SLI $117.50

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=3904189

XFX 6800GS OC X 2 SLI $197.84 x 2
# Graphics Core: 256-bit
# Memory Interface: 256-bit
# Memory Bandwidth: 32 GB/sec
# Vertices Per Second : 531 Million
# Memory Date Rate : 1.1 GHz
# Pixels per Clock (peak) : 12
# Textures per Pixel: 12 (SLI that is 24 Scan Leave Pixel Pipes!)
# RAMDACs : 400 MHz
# Fill Rate : 5.1 Billion Texels/sec.
# Memory Clock : 1.1GHz (vs standard at 1GHz)
# Engine Clock : 485MHz (vs standard at 425MHz)
# Chipset : GeForce 6800 GS
# Memory: 256 MB
# Bus Type: PCI-E
# Memory Type : DDR3
# Memory Bus : 256-bit
Boom! $512.00 you are done!

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

I still would reccomend the MSI k8n Neo 2 platinum (or -f), if you can still find them. In it's time it was considered the bes overclocking AGP board.

Here's the only place I can find them new at the moment.

http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductD...ourceID=k31366

It's what I had before I went PCI-e and it served me well.

[Scotty]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

While I don't have any input for you regarding mobos (I haven't built an AMD machine yet ... that will be next), I can commiserate with you on the death of AGP.

My current machine was built about 5-6 months ago tops and at the time I had to choose between AGP or PCI-e. Seeing as how AGP seemed to have a long, good history, I just stuck with that. Now there is next to nothing out there with an AGP slot. Your government conspiracy theory may be valid

Kind of aggravating really..... Best of luck.

[Jofaba]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

I still would reccomend the MSI k8n Neo 2 platinum (or -f), if you can still find them. In it's time it was considered the bes overclocking AGP board.

Here's the only place I can find them new at the moment.

http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductD...ourceID=k31366

It's what I had before I went PCI-e and it served me well.

Interesting that you'd link to that board. That's the same board I started looking at during one of my breaks today. The Gigabyte runs at 800mhz stock. I don't know much about hypertransport, but going down from 1000 to 800 certinally can't be a good idea. From the limited time I had, it seems like an 800mhz based mobo would underclock my cpu!

I'll probably bite the bullet and buy my board from an unknown site like the one you just linked to. As for the other recomendations, while appreciated that you participated, I have to wonder if you read what this thread is about. Lots of people suggesting I either go sli, or get a new agp videocard. This is a thread about agp mobo's moreso than videocards. While agp videocards are also obviously dying, this particular thread is about my search for a good agp mobo. Thank you for the suggestions though.

[Hephaistion]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

PCconnection.com an unknown site? You are kidding me right? They are the largest online reseller of computers and networking equipment.

[Jofaba]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

btw, the way I came across the Neo today was by typing "939 agp 1000" into Yahoo in the "Shopping" section. The Neo with the NForce3 chipset (which I think is happily compatible with the XFI, compared to the NForce4) is the seventh down. I hope that I get a choice in color though because the thumbnail is bright red, and the closeup is a nice blackish color. I definately want the black over the red. I just hope I don't get screwed by some unknown site...

[Jofaba]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

Unknown to me. Never seen anyone link to it before and the site looks pretty plain so I just assumed. It does rank in the top two both in Yahoo and Google for merchant ratings. But it's not in stock with them. At least, I think that's what "On Order" means. I'm calling a place that doesn't mention whether it's stocked or not, but most places just have the product info and are out of stock. THIS is what I mean by agp being dead. If you can't find it on the internet, then it no longer exists!!! There's one, used, on ebay right now. Doesn't end for two days though and I hate auctions. Blah. Blah! Blah!!!
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edit: phone rang and rang and rang then went dead. That doesn't give me a lot of confindence (not talking about pcconnection)
edit#2: called PCConnection (got a human being VERY quickly) and it's on back order until the 15th =(
edit#3: Newegg actually has one but the VIA chipset version =(

[Dethred]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

I am RMA'ing my old ASrock Dual SATA2 Uli board this week to Newegg.com If anyone wants dibs on the replacement I'll let it go for cheap.

[Jofaba]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

I am RMA'ing my old ASrock Dual SATA2 Uli board this week to Newegg.com If anyone wants dibs on the replacement I'll let it go for cheap.

Why would we want to buy a defective mobo? Why are you rma'ing it?

[Hephaistion]

Re: Is AGP seriously THIS dead?

Unknown to me. Never seen anyone link to it before and the site looks pretty plain so I just assumed. It does rank in the top two both in Yahoo and Google for merchant ratings. But it's not in stock with them. At least, I think that's what "On Order" means. I'm calling a place that doesn't mention whether it's stocked or not, but most places just have the product info and are out of stock. THIS is what I mean by agp being dead. If you can't find it on the internet, then it no longer exists!!! There's one, used, on ebay right now. Doesn't end for two days though and I hate auctions. Blah. Blah! Blah!!!
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edit: phone rang and rang and rang then went dead. That doesn't give me a lot of confindence (not talking about pcconnection)
edit#2: called PCConnection (got a human being VERY quickly) and it's on back order until the 15th =(
edit#3: Newegg actually has one but the VIA chipset version =(

Try Mwave.com or zipzoomfly.com