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"J. Clarke" <jclarke@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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> Chip wrote:
>
>>
>> "Mac Cool" <Mac@2cool.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns95DAD3CC54BBDMacCool@130.133.1.4...
>>> Chip:
>>>> what about your average punter with a 2.6GHz P4 and ATI 9600. What
>>>> will *he* buy in 12-18 months from now?
>>>
>>> A 6800GT? A new PCI-E motherboard?
>>> A new AGP motherboard 18 months from now would be useless.
>>> --
>>> Mac Cool
>>
>> I don't get your point. No-one would want to buy a *new* AGP motherboard
>> in
>> 18 months. That would be crazy.
>>
>> But, 18 months from now, if you own an AGP motherboard and you want to
>> buy
>> a
>> new graphics card, what are you going to want to buy? An AGP graphics
>> card! That's why manufacturers will continue to offer them... because if
>> there is market demand, someone will cater for it.
>>
>> Let me offer you an analogy:
>>
>> Do PCI-Express cards offer any speed advantages over AGP? No, not
>> really.
>> Marginal improvement at best. Perhaps none at all.
>>
>> Do sata disks offer any improvement over IDE disks? No, not really.
>> Marginal improvement at best. Perhaps none at all.
>>
>> Do ALL new motherboards come with sata ports? Yes.
>>
>> Can you still buy a PATA disk today? Yes. Why? Because their is still
>> demand for them.
>>
>> Anyway, this is my view. Others may have a different point of view. In
>> 18 months time, we will see who is right.
>
> Other than replacing a dead video board, why would one want to put a new
> video board in an 18-month-old motherboard?
Er, let me think........ to speed the system up perhaps????????
You make it sound like an 18 month old motherboard is a fossil. There's
people out there still using 486's, you know. P3's are commonplace and
circa 2GHz P4's are everywhere.
Someone with a typical *modern* system (maybe an Athlon 64 3500+ with 1GB
ram in an nforce3 motherboard) might very well decide to replace their (say)
aging 9600 Pro in perhaps 18 months.
Maybe your advice to them is to buy a new motherboard? Well that's fine and
dandy for people inclined to do such upgrades. But what about the other 99%
of the population who can barely figure out how to fit a new CD rom drive?
The people who bought Dells, or HPs, or Gateways or whatever? They are
hardly the sort who will relish the prospect of fitting a new motherboard,
are they. And I doubt they will relish the prospect of buying a whole new
PC either, just to make Quake 4 run a little faster. Their logical,
inexpensive, easy to install option will be to buy a new AGP graphics card.
I'm done arguing about this now. I think my point of view is clear, well
thought out and logical. And correct, btw. If you think otherwise, then
that's up to you.
Chip