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to be honest i never understood the need to move from AGP to PCI it wasn't like AGP was being used at anything close to it's capacity.
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It certainly was. Most of the mid-high (£170 ish upwards say) range cards now would be saturated on the AGP bus.
I don't agree. Only SLI/Crossfired top range cards would saturate 8xAGP. PCI-E's main advantage comes in more flexible access to system RAM (for low end cards) and allowing more power through the socket to the card, which hasn't helped anything and we still need extra power connectors to high end cards.
To be honest there was very little need for PCI-E, as there was little need for the bandwidth increase for hard drive access, but these are here and I welcome them - always good for the future.
Annoying when you upgrade, but then in my view much of the notion of 'upgrading' PCs is more a perception than a reality (such as when i get asked to pop over to "sort out" a friends machine, and its a Celeron 400 or something).
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