AGP extinction countdown.

AGP going to extinct soon. Graphic card vendors trying to push the price of AGP based card higher by 15%-30% compare to PCI version of the same model series. It looks like the pc hardware manufacturer pushing PCI-Express market broader and affordable to consumer as demand for performance multimedia and gaming graphic increase, By end of 2006, AGP againts PCI-e value versus performance consideration wasn't favourable to AGP because the bandwith transfer technology via AGP couldn't pump up more quality high data bit transfer to cope up with fast framerate game, not worth money to invest since the processing power reached bottle neck.
I've receive call from our local vendor that couldn't supply me an 'ATI X800 XT' AGP card because available stocks is in PCI-e slot. 'ATI X800 XT' is the only graphic ard with almost equal performance to my previous broken 'Nvidia GeForce 6800GT' agp. I decided to switch to ATI since it has received good review being long lasting "stable" performance and wouldn't cook GPU under hot redundant tempreature. Other alternative instead of choosing X800 series are X1600, X850 and X1800 models on AGP. Others higher grade are on PCI-e. The top models on our local shelf for Nvidia is XFX Geforce 6600GT, the vendor confirm its also available but i would risk my wallet for another Nvidia core unless there's no option.
I just need a graphic card enough good quality rendering with high FSAA and Anistropic quality on my models especially when run a complete compiled 3d models inside the 4x4 EVO2 game scene on 1024x768 screen size with software video capture runing in the background, expect an improve frame rate counter around 56 to 70 fps to generate a smooth scene when running my models around the tracks.