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i have been using geforce 6800 128mb agp video card for almost 3 years. it cant handle new games today. so i am gonna get a new one like 7950 or 8 series, but all i found was PCIe, if you find AGP for 7950 or 8 series for AGP, please tell me.
i am using P4 3.06ghz
1gb ddr 400
550W PSU
abit A8 mobo

I was actually hoping the OP won't be that unreasonable to actually buy the card. I attached that image to drive the point home ;-)

AGP is fading away into retirment. With PCIe 2.0 around the corner AGP is getting pushed into retirement fast. Nvidia has no plans of making any DX10 AGP cards anytime soon if at all. ATI will produce DX10 cards for AGP but expect these cards to be mild to budge range gpu cards.

Asus 7600GS Silent AGP 256 Mb will play all those new games at almost max resolutions for a very affordable price.You may face some problems to compete on the web if you intend to play World of Warcraft against PCI-E cards like the new generation nvidia 8800GTX.DirectX 10 games support Windows XP and DirectX 9.0c without problems for many years to come.

I hear ya Cobra ....
For me, it's been pretty interesting, probably short of amazing to see that folks are still grasping at straws on this GPU inteface issue. On a number of occasions, I've tried to reason it out & end up with no empirical explanation. Thus so far, all I can speculate is that the resounding residual AGP followership is based on sheer sentiment & the fact that a few clever GPU manufacturers are still deceitfully tricking out these outdated cards.
Obviously, it is not a failure fallout from saturation, maturity, popularity or whatever you wanna call it, because PCI-E cards have now been out for while. And it doesn't appear to be progressive cost or performance benefit either, since the AGP inteface does not hold the advantage under those specific as well.
The good thing in all of this perhaps, is that those of us with a mid range AGP card, can still get something worthwhile back for our relics, if & when we do decide to unload it.
Oh & BTW, anyone looking to buy a substantially souped up AGP 6800NU? ;-)

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