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Originally posted by John Anderton
I am also looking to buy one. Im willing to spend around 6000 INR (i have to buy other things too) (6000 Indian rupees = 133.3032 U.S. dollars = 106.959159 Euro = 177.029482 Australian dollars)
A Nvdia GeForce 6200 256 Mb (AGP Card) costs 4000 INR for me
A Nvdia GeForce 6600 128 Mb (PCI-E Card) costs 5800 INR for me
My question is it worth giving more money and getting a 128mb pci-e card rather than a 256mb agp card ??
Ive heard from 2 people that it is .... i seriously need a view asap 
Well... then I'll be the first to say "no it isn't worth it"
That is to say:
It highly depends on what you're planning todo when you buy another computer in the futur. Are you going to use the graphics cards from the old PC (thus, the card you're going to buy now) or not? If not, and you decide you would buy an entire new PC (as PC's would be much faster by then and even newer technology has come out), then I do not see any reason why buying a PCI-E over an AGP one would be "better".
Performance wise (unless you're a hardcore tweaker/game junkie... but then again, if you are you wouldn't buy these GeForce's in this category) there is no real difference between them. Moreover (but I can be wrong in this one, though I doubt it), the AGP one has more cache memory than the PCI-E one. And that is a big factor in performance. So PCI-E may be in theory faster than AGP when comparing only the bus speed, but I very highly doubt you would see much overall difference in everyday use in this case (except in your wallet)...
I would look in very much detail at benchmarks of these exact cards (not a card with same type of processor, but higher memory, etc... but exact same cards and in the exact same benchmark tests), and only buy the PCI-E one if and only if it shows a very massive increase in performance over the AGP one (afterall we're talking about 50% more in costs pricewise; I wouldn't pay 50% if it only 'ticks' slightly faster).
Using newest technology is not always better!!!!! It highly depends on what you are going todo with it, now and in the futur.
eg: if you're planning to upgrade your entire PC (aka motherboard) soonish, then I would buy the PCI-E one (and maybe even one in a higher category), if not, stick with the cheaper one, it would work equally well and you have some spare money to spend on something else (eg: a dinner with a nice girl
).
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