It seems graphics card giant Nvidia are finally leaving AGP slots in the backyard to rust. Their latest card, the 7800 series of GPU will not be manufactured in an AGP form, instead the company is going full throttle with PCI-E from here on in.
Their last GPU, the 6800 and 6600 line of cards included an AGP selection but this time around they are not going to release a new product the old fashioned way, so all you AGP motherboard owners eyeing up the new 7800 cards had better look deep into your wallets for a new motherboard.
This comes as something of a surprise to us as we know that ATI will release an AGP version of R520 once it's ready. Bear in mind that ATI sill has to release PCIe version but once it has R520 PCIe it won't be a rocket science to bridge this chip to AGP with its Rialto bridge to Babylon chip.
For the majority of you who still have AGP systems and like high end graphics, it transpires that you will have to change the platform from AGP to PCIe in order to continue buying the latest greatest cards from Nvidia.
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