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Abdul Raauf
The Accelerated Graphics Port interface, simply known as AGP, is almost 11 years old, and despite the fact that virtually all new mainboards use only the new PCI Express, AMD/ATI is still trying to offer support for it. Unlike ATI, NVIDIA is dumping AGP, leaving it behind. These being said, it seems it's only a matter of time until ATI will do the same thing, but for now, there's a small market share to be hard with AGP graphics cards using last GPUs available on the market...
For example, while lucky NVIDIA fans may still find new GeForce 7 series cards for their old AGP mainboards, and unlucky ones will have to look for used AGP cards, ATI's followers could grab pretty powerful new cards for their old systems, for an example, the HD 3850.
Sapphire has started shipping AGP 8X HD 3850 cards recently, and AMD promised to release Vista drivers for them soon, since only Windows XP ones are available as we speak.
At last, it should be noted that some technical problems stopped NVIDIA from allowing their GeForce 8xxx cards to enter the AGP realm, so they decided not to bother to fix it, after all... so, for NVIDIA, the AGP interface is dead. May it rest in peace!
For example, while lucky NVIDIA fans may still find new GeForce 7 series cards for their old AGP mainboards, and unlucky ones will have to look for used AGP cards, ATI's followers could grab pretty powerful new cards for their old systems, for an example, the HD 3850.
Sapphire has started shipping AGP 8X HD 3850 cards recently, and AMD promised to release Vista drivers for them soon, since only Windows XP ones are available as we speak.
At last, it should be noted that some technical problems stopped NVIDIA from allowing their GeForce 8xxx cards to enter the AGP realm, so they decided not to bother to fix it, after all... so, for NVIDIA, the AGP interface is dead. May it rest in peace!
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