AGP being phased out?

[MONOLITH]

Man, did I miss the memo on this one.

My son has an Radeon X850 XT (AGP slotted) , plugged into an aging 1.5ghz motherboard.

I spent the last two days trying to find him a stripped down tower with a 3Ghz processor I could bring home and just move his Vid card, sound card, etc into the new tower.

I cannot find a single computer being made anywhere that comes with an AGP slot. Everything now is PCI Express.I've been calling all over the state for 2 days.

Now a little research is showing me AGP is being phased out, everything will be PCI for now on.

What's up with that?

That means that I can't even upgrade my own computer with a new vid card (like a Radeon X1900 I was thinking about). I have to buy a whole new rig and a PCI Card?

[Lazerblade]

They still make AGP slotted mobo's, you just have to buy something other than the top 4 name brands. You should be able to get something with AGP that can take up to at least an Athlon64 4200+.

ASUS A8V-MX has one of each slot type. NewEgg has quite a few that have just AGP or just PCI-E (both 1X and 16X). For future compatibility, get something with both. Otherwise, get something cheap with AGP for now and when ready to drop for PCI-E, upgrade both vid and mobo. You certainly still have options.

[MindlessOath]

you wont find many 'retail' computers anymore with agp slots (or any grfx ports unless you want to spend some G's on gaming systems).

just find a new motherboard and build your own. www.newegg.com
if you want to upgrade i suggest the ASROCK 939SATA2 (i forget the exact name) it has agp and PCI-E (ie its pci express not just pci). aswell as socket 939pin amd aswell as an addon board for AMD's new AM2 processor (and ddr2 memory).
not as well performing as the other competition, but for upgradablity alone its great.