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French site PCINpact reports that an AGP version of NVIDIA's GeForce 7900 GT graphics card is due
out "as early as next month." The site also received word of this quarter. If the
information -users who still own previous-generation system with AGP 8x graphics slot will be able
to update their computers to the lat...read more

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The only way I'll get another AGP card is if it's atleast 50% faster than my x800xtpe, and I don't see that happening. Then again maybe the 7900 is more of a beast than I realize.

I don't feel like looking it up right now... Does the 7900 GT they're talking about have the same number of pipes as the GTX? If so then it's only a clock speed decrease right? Maybe BFG would/will release an OC version that competes on aprox the same level as the GTX.

On another note AMD better reduce the price of the FX-60 (among other things) for when Conroe comes out. If I could get an upgrade of 7900 "GT" and also toss in a FX-60 for under $600-700 I'd prolly do that. I've got 2GB of C2 Corsair, 2 raptors in raid, and 550 Watt PSU; a solid cpu and newer gfx card is all I need to run the next gen shit like crysis when that comes out.

In more general terms, I hope they take AGP to it's limit bandwidth wise. They should just push it to the brink of the interface being the bottleneck, where by switching to PCI-e you would actually see an increase in performance due to the extra bandwidth. In other words, why are they always giving us the GT versions? Why can't we have a taste of what the GTXs can do?

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