[HEAVY-D]

Wondering if it's worth getting anytime soon.

[hans5849]

not unless your planning a full mobo, Ram, CPU, and video card "upgrade"

[Jamsan]

i have a pci-e card laying on my ground right now....as well as mobo, ram, and cpu -- it'll all be going in tomorrow, so ill let you know exactly how worth it is -- its also hard to compare agp and pci-e, because you really cant compare the same card in different formats without having alot of other components being changed out as well.

[Drakkon]

went 7800GT PCIx....started playing bf2 and i must say game looks friggin amazing and runs as smooth as anything i have ever seen. I even for shits and giggles installed the old quake 1 and got it running at 1600x1200 with no noticible lag what-so-ever and it was awesome
I spent a pretty penny upgrading everything, cpu, ram, mobo, graphics, but it was worth it cause i was jsut running a p4 2.4 on a 9600se before.

[ivanolo]

I might just buy this motherboard instead of the MSI K8N Neo2-F. Read AnandTech's review. For a value board, it's freakin' cool. I love that slot for M2 CPUs. The only things missing from it are onboard Gbit NIC and IEEE1394a/b ports. But there are three PCI slots and a PCIe x1 slot to add expansion cards....

[HEAVY-D]

I'm soooooo far behind.

Jamsam looking forward to your review.

Nice board ivanolo, never heard of ULi before and don't know anything about AMD's upcomming M2 either. (Shoot me NOW!!!!!)

[berkut]

ULi is the new ALi (remember them?), but better!

[MaesterB]

PCI-e is pretty cool. You just have to find a good graphics card that makes use of it.

For now, though, my X800 Pro AGP along with my P4 3.2Ghz CPU will do me just fine.

[ThatHideousStrength]

I'm still on a 2500 Barton and a Geforce 4 4200

[thadood]

Originally Posted by djmihow

I'm still on a 2500 Barton and a Geforce 4 4200

I'm on a 2000+ with the 4200 =0

[tex]

Originally Posted by thadood

I'm on a 2000+ with the 4200 =0

amen. new hardware is over rated.
p4 2.4b with a radeon 9000 pro.

[Goofus Maximus]

One of the main things that kept me from going to a socket 939 board/CPU, was the total lack of AGP support in addition to PCI-e support, so I could change the mobo/CPU now, and get around to changing the gfx card later, so I spent on an AthlonXP 3000+/400fsb CPU and PC 3200 HyperX instead. Had this been out then, I'd have made an entirely different choice...

[HEAVY-D]

My specs.:

P3 933MHz
384megs ram (PC133!!!!)
Radeon 9600se

Think I need to upgrade.
The ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 looks like a good bet.

[Axl_Rose]

I have PCI-e in my Laptop

[ivanolo]

Originally Posted by Goofus Maximus

One of the main things that kept me from going to a socket 939 board/CPU, was the total lack of AGP support in addition to PCI-e support, so I could change the mobo/CPU now, and get around to changing the gfx card later, so I spent on an AthlonXP 3000+/400fsb CPU and PC 3200 HyperX instead. Had this been out then, I'd have made an entirely different choice...

I've been planning my upgrade around my graphics card. I paid $200 for my GeForce 6600GT AGP, and I'd like to keep it for a while. You could say I haven't even used it yet. So I decided to get an Athlon XP 2800+ initially, but then I found a couple of Socket 939 motherboards with an AGP slot and decided to upgrade the motherboard and CPU instead. I settled for an MSI K8N Neo2-F and an Athlon 64 3000+. I'm definitely gonna go for the Asrock now, though. It has everything I need, like SATA II (even if it's not the official kind) and a special slot for upgrading to a Socket M2 CPU.

[Bear]

I've got a 7800GTX running on my A8V-E (obviously PCI-E). Runs flawless, to say the least.

A good answer to the main question would be, if you're saving money for a large upgrade such as RAM, CPU, Video, then do so. For just a video card change, I wouldn't recommend it.

[El_Presidente_Pufferfish]

I went PCI-E

I wish i had more than 3 normal PCI cards

[randomtask]

p3 700mhz, voodoo3 2000!!! Boooooooyah.

Somone please buy me a new computer.

[Jamsan]

Originally Posted by randomtask

p3 700mhz, voodoo3 2000!!! Boooooooyah.

Somone please buy me a new computer.

damn -- i think ive had about 6 different computers since i had anything that slow

[HEAVY-D]

Originally Posted by Jamsan

damn -- i think ive had about 6 different computers since i had anything that slow

Jamsan, you put that new rig together yet?

[Jamsan]

why yes i have -- and i must say, its very impressive....

i havent done anything too graphics intensive yet, but i played battlefield 2 without a hiccup, and the good ol cs and cs: source, of course without hiccups -- I dont know how much of a review I can give, but the one thing I absolutely love about my pc is hyperthreading -- goddamn is it amazing... i am now a pentium fanboy

[mistawiskas]

Asus P4P800,P4 3.4 LGA, 1 gig corsairXMS and a 9800pro for graphics. I wish I'd have gone PCIe instead, but it'll have tp wait for next system upgrade now. I will say that I'm totally dissatisfied with the ATI graphics and will be going back to Nvidea very soon.