Is AGP ever going to be used

[The PIT]

Considering that at the moment with the present motherboard memory and advent of texture copmpression and ever increasing onboard video card memory will it be ever used?

[DosFreak]

PCI will eventually be upgraded in the consumer market. Business are already ironing out the new PCI specs for their server so eventually....mabe less than 5 years down the line PCI will be upgrade. If you have a Voodoo card you will see no benefit on AGP...but with games in resolutions of 1204X768 plus the games coming out in the next year AGP is being used. Check out www.maximumpc.com for an article about AGP vs. PCI.

[The PIT]

I think you missed the point. At present ( NO doubt rembus users will chip in) On the board sdram can't compete with onbaord sdram on the video card. If main amemory continues to improve won't this find the way onto video cards and amke agp redudnat anyway.

[paulcs]

I think it's helpful now for certain CAD applications and the Quake3 Q3DM9 level where, I've read, textures can exceed graphics memory.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Wombat]

I think it will be about 2-3 years before the general consumer sees a different PCI style than the current 32bit 33MHz setup.