2400/2600 AGP release date?

I read that powercolor was going to be introducing them in August. Kind of a bummer, was hoping for a Simultaneous launch.

My current HTPC is a Pentium 4 Northwood at 2.8Ghz. I've been running everything in overlay with an old ATI 9600 Pro because it can't handle HD and VMR9. I was about to retire it in favor of a Core2Duo until I started hearing about the GeForce 8500/8600 series cards. Alas, no AGP versions were announced.

Now with the ATI 2x00's coming out in an AGP flavor, I won't have to build a new PC. It looks like I can offload everyting to the video card! I look forward to Anandtech's upcoming review for us HTPC users.

Robert

In Germany the Sapphire 2400PRO can already be ordered from Alternate.

So I guess -I hope- it will be a few weeks before other cards are available for ordering.

Yeah, I'm curious as well, I currently have an x800xl and I'm hoping that its better than that for gaming, then I might have to pick one up and not even need a new PC.

I just wish ATI would let the HDMI audio passthrough PCM instead, that's really dumb of them to only use DTS and DD.