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

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

The word New and AGP do not go together.

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

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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?

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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.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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.

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"You won a new refrigerator, great! Where you gonna put it?" - Tony Danza

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.

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.

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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...

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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

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.

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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.

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