DX10.1 AGP product being released by AMD/ATI!!

[Fireblade]

After HIS launched 2400 and 2600 parts for the AGP 4x/8x interface, we were set for a swan-song for the connector which has hosted our graphics cards in one form or another since 1997.

But AMD has decided to address the needs of this dying market with a DirectX 10.1 part as well. Manufacturers only made the switch to PCI Express this year, with PCI E parts taking over from AGP ones.

Radeon HD 3850 AGP will [apparently] come to market bundled with the following parts:

* ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP graphics card
* 6-pin PEG to Dual 4-pin Molex adapter
* DVI to HDMI Adapter
* DVI to VGA adapter
* HDTV Component out adapter
* Set-up CD
* Manuals
Read the rest here (http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/06/amd-set-capture-100-agp-market).

[latency]

great... the generation of old computers that need to be upgraded or replaced can limp on for a little longer >.<

[saltynay]

at a high premium of course it is already costly to get AGP and most cards are just old tech

[Tom]

The last decent range of boards that included AGP slots in relative quantity (I'll ignore the few 'upgrade path' boards that appeared later) where the NF3-based models, and last I checked you're limited to s939 CPUs.. Quite a few won't even taken an X2. :(

This doesn't take into account over-clocking, of course, but you can plainly see that AMD are just stood back laughing at Nvidia's 'whoopsie' with their bridge chips.

What's to bet a GPU as fast as this, will be CPU limited by 99.99% of the boards it fits in? ;)