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Posted by Clovis on Apr-13-2007 04:22:

New AGP Graphics Card

I'm thinking of buying
this soon, I currently have an ATI Radeon 9600SE 256MB.

Anybody have any opinions? I havnt really followed the graphics card market for the past 3 years

Posted by trewqy on Apr-13-2007 15:13:

The word New and AGP do not go together.

if u need an agp card go for the 1950pro.

Posted by LeopoldStotch on Apr-13-2007 17:07:

quote:
Originally posted by trewqy
The word New and AGP do not go together.

if u need an agp card go for the 1950pro.

that is true. now pci-e is the latest trend. i can't really account how much better pci-e is over agp though, or vice versa. any pci-e fans here?

Posted by Clovis on Apr-15-2007 17:55:

lol, I'm working with my older motherboard. It doesnt have PCI-E

AGP is the way for me untill I get a new board.

Posted by Clovis on Apr-15-2007 17:57:

And I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go with this one:

http://www.futurepowerpc.com/scripts/product.asp?PRDCODE=VCPN-G76512SAPB&REFID=PG&RP=B3708EF922C95AACF79F57A78103C007B182424ED40455E6D3551F711D5315E48AE22A96C08EF7C9654D6272E4629A65

Posted by Marc Summers on Apr-15-2007 18:09:

What can a middle-of-the-road video card handle these days? Is crossfire necessary nowadays?

I haven't been following video cards that much, either.

Posted by winnowingfan51 on Apr-16-2007 00:02:

I just got a 8800GTX PCI-E and well... it frankely blows my PS3 away.... When (if) I get a second one in SLI...

Quad-Core QX6700 overclocked to 3.2ghz helps a bit too.

Posted by mr. poopyhead on Apr-19-2007 00:44:

don't believe the marketing hype...

they've barely maxed out the bandwidth of AGP 8X... PCIe was just a scam to make eveyrone upgrade EVERYTHING. the truth is, a good chunk of the population still uses AGP and the AGP bus is STILL good enough not to bottleneck the system...

look up reviews of the X1950 Pro and compare the AGP and PCIe versions. AGP is still keeping up with todays GPUs...

i've heard plans that they will release an AGP version of a GeForce 8 series card. so HANG ON TO YOUR MOTHERBOARDS!

enthusiasts running dual 8800GTXs and crazy fast CPUs are only a small percentage of the market, though their gear gets most of the media coverage. most people are still running old systems that just need a little upgrading to keep up.

tom's hardware did an experiment to see if old CPUs still bottleneck games. i can't remember the exact results, but the difference wasn't significant enough that people should scrap their old athlon XP systems.

Posted by Clovis on Apr-20-2007 01:04:

quote:
Originally posted by winnowingfan51
I just got a 8800GTX PCI-E and well... it frankely blows my PS3 away.... When (if) I get a second one in SLI...

Quad-Core QX6700 overclocked to 3.2ghz helps a bit too.

I've got an Athlon 2.3 ghz 3200XP+ on there.., 1024MB RAM, so I'm pretty sure the 9600 SE is the current bottleneck...

Posted by AddictedTo1982 on May-07-2007 21:46:

There isn't much of choice out there since most the cards are now PCI Express and the new 8600 and 8800 series NVidia is the way to since ATI really been screwing up on coming with Direct X10 cards but no game yet support untill late this on the next. I suggest you look around newegg.com and look around that place is your best bet on find good prices and reviews

Posted by The_G0dfather on May-11-2007 00:25:

That 7600 is really really decent.
Really sux nowadays to find a decent AGP card for a normal price. Some ass even asked 300� for a 6200 over here. Yeah right
Anyway, i bought a 6200 in the end, for approx 70 euros just to buy something. Runs pretty decent, far from being top notch but its ok. So that 7600 should really do the trick.

Posted by Clovis on Mar-04-2008 21:45:

So I just got one of these:

http://www.pricegrabber.com/user_sa...&lot_id=7890810

For the price and the specs I couldn't say no, also I think it will complement the rest of my system specs perfectly. Will try it tonight with Half Life and Flight Simulator.

Posted by factory81 on Mar-06-2008 06:46:

I was in suspense for 10 god damn months wondering what you got.

Jesus Christ man

Posted by stren on Mar-06-2008 09:13:

heh I'm still using an AGP card similar to clovis' old one. Saturday I'm guying a new comp though

quote:
Originally posted by factory81
I was in suspense for 10 god damn months wondering what you got.

Jesus Christ man

lol

Posted by CyclonesWorld on Mar-23-2008 16:26:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
So I just got one of these:

http://www.pricegrabber.com/user_sa...&lot_id=7890810

For the price and the specs I couldn't say no, also I think it will complement the rest of my system specs perfectly. Will try it tonight with Half Life and Flight Simulator.

I got that card to replace the 9800 Pro in my system of similar specs and found out that the 1650Pro was actually SLOWER. I went to the 1950Pro and although it helped out a lot the rest of the system was a big bottle neck.

For the money you're better off upgrading and getting a pci-e card. There are many more available for these days and they're cheaper.

Posted by Dieselboy_1206 on Mar-23-2008 22:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
So I just got one of these:

http://www.pricegrabber.com/user_sa...&lot_id=7890810

For the price and the specs I couldn't say no, also I think it will complement the rest of my system specs perfectly. Will try it tonight with Half Life and Flight Simulator.

I got the exact same card a while back and it is nice. If you don't care too much about modern gaming it will work great. Don't expect to see high FPS in newer games, even Oblivion. It was my last AGP upgrade before switching everything I had to so I could run pci-e which entailed CPU, motherboard, RAM, PSU, and GPU. A lot of money.

Posted by PaulSn on Mar-29-2008 01:51:

Save up some money and upgrade to PCI-E. That's what I would do.