[hippyhop]

check out this http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2005/4808.html

It DOES NOT mention AGP at all ! why ?

[Krypton]

I hate to burst your bubble, but the X800 is AGP 8x only, and exclusively G5 orientated - i.e. G5s are going to be using AGP for some time yet

[Leonard]

Yep, you shouuld have dug a little further hippyhop - http://www.ati.com/products/radeonx8...tme/index.html

And on the subject of AGP vs PCI-Express I'd like to paste the quote from a news article on the Mac Radeon X800 XT:

A lot has been made of PCI Express, a new parallel-based expansion port standard that offers greater performance than the AGP or PCI-X architecture found in current Power Macs. Some see the absence of PCI Express as a shortcoming in Apple's pro desktop system design, especially as PC motherboard manufacturers increasingly support the new standard. Ossias admits that PCI Express has some benefits, but downplays its real-world usefulness, for now.

"We haven't been topping out the capabilities of AGP," he said. "In theory, bidirectional PCI-X would work faster, but it's a different story for application software."

http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/01/05/x800/index.php

[Big Mac]

Thread Deserves Lock

But while I am here, it should be noted that Macworld needs better editors. PCIe is a serial bus technology, not parallel. As a proud DP 2.0 Rev B owner I am selfishly hoping that Apple takes it sweet time adopting PCIe.

[eddiecatflap]

pci-e isn't just about videocards tho'

it has far more importance than that