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Originally posted by Dilbert1234567
PCI express is a major step. it will make a huge diferance in speeds if you are willing to wait for it wait. its solid tech with large backing (unlike RDRAM)
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It's already reported that NVIDIA and ATI won't release a PCI-E videocard that's more than 100 MHz faster than the current cards for a solid year. That's not a major step at all. They've also already admitted that the fact that it's PCI-E will have nothing to do with the increase in power for at least a year. AGP isn't outdated yet...it's simply time to increase clock speeds again, just like they usually do. Sooner or later they will run into a bottleneck, and that's why they're adapting to PCI-E now instead of later. Most tech sites believe a possible 15% increase in power over today's cards once the PCI-E cards come out over the year. That's just not enough to wait for, especially since those cards WILL be very expensive. Hell, NVIDIA has even mentioned that the first-gen PCI-E cards will come with four types, two of them being no more powerful than a GeForce 4 TI series. Only the latter two will be much better, and only by 10-15%.
-Lasereth