BFG offering free PCI-E upgrades for AGP cards

Posted at: 5:19pm 25th November 2008 by Ben Hardwidge

Owners of BFG AGP GeForce 6800, 7600 and 7800 cards can get a free upgrade to a PCI-E GeForce 9-series card in the US, and hopefully in the UK soon

Suffering a cruel fate after the quick introduction of PCI-E motherboards, we never really got to see the true potential of the age-old AGP interface. While you can still get Radeon HD 3850 cards based on the ancient graphics port, it’s fair to say that AGP will shortly be joining the ISA slot in motherboard heaven. However, in order to ease the upgrade process for owners of AGP cards, BFG is kindly offering a free PCI-E graphics card to owners of its AGP cards.

The idea is that you send BFG your old AGP card, and the company will send you back a current PCI-E ‘equivalent’ card in return, or you can pay an extra $50 US and get an upgrade. The offers are pretty reasonable too, with old DirectX 9 GeForce 6800 GS cards being replaced with DirectX 10 GeForce 9600 GT cards for free, or 9800 GT cards for an extra $50.

Currently, the offer is only available in the US, but BFG’s European marketing manager, Graham Brown, told Custom PC that the company is currently 'looking at ways to make it work' in Europe and the UK. 'Since AGP is basically a dead format,' says Brown, 'we’d like to get as many people over to PCI-E as possible.'

'By doing this promotion,' explains Brown, 'we hope that in the future, when these customers need to upgrade their graphics and power supplies again, they’ll choose BFG Tech. Of course, this offer makes the most sense for customers who are planning to spend the money to upgrade the rest of their system to PCI-E, or build or buy a PCI-E-based system, now or in the near future.'


You can see the full list of available offers in the table below, and visit BFG’s website if you want to claim your free PCI-E graphics card. Let's hope that the offer will soon be open to the UK as well as the US.