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Best AGP cards?

amdhappy

amdhappy

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Hopefully I am not the only one still living in the PC hardware past, but can anyone please tell me which is the best AGP garphics card on the market at the moment.

I was looking at the XFX GeForce 7950GT 512MB GDDR3 DVI HDTV AGP and that card looks very good. Any thoughts?

Thanks

w.
 
Do you have a particular budget in mind and any specific preferences when it comes to brand, features, specifications and whatnot? Assuming those things are not important then I would suggest the X1950Pro.
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
Do you have a particular budget in mind and any specific preferences when it comes to brand, features, specifications and whatnot? Assuming those things are not important then I would suggest the X1950Pro.
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Thanks for the reply.

I mainly wanted to stay with Nvidia, but I can be pursuaded to go for ATI if there is a clear difference. Budget, no more than £150. DVI connection and maybe a quiet cooling system if possible.

w.
 
I cant fault the 1950 pro. Had it a year now and its brill. Plays everythin I play (cod4, crysis, wic, bf2) and hasnt flatered yet. Fans are quiet and temp controlled.
 
amdhappy said:
Thanks for the reply.

I mainly wanted to stay with Nvidia, but I can be pursuaded to go for ATI if there is a clear difference. Budget, no more than £150. DVI connection and maybe a quiet cooling system if possible.
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The X1950Pro does sound right up your street to be honest, but I am not sure how quiet it is. It does come in both single and dual slot configurations though, and some come with an Accellero cooler fitted to them which are very quiet but are dual-slot so it depends on the configuration of your case.

As far as difference goes, the only real one is that the Radeon X1K Series had superior image quality compared against the Nvidia cards of the time. The only way you would get better image quality on AGP is if you bought a low-end Geforce 8. They also tended to perform a bit better than their Nvidia counterparts.
 
i got a x1950pro agp, its not too bad but its main disadvantage is the drivers, restricted to version 7.7 so no game fixes for newer games like bioshock etc.

if you do want a x1950pro i advise you to check out the rage3d forums and read up on the driver issues of the x1950pro.
 
Im using cat 7.10 and never had any problems at all. Also maybe try the omega drivers, I have used them before.
 
you must be one of the lucky guys, check rage3d forums and there is massive threads on the issue. official word from ati is that they have ended agp card support as of driver 7.7
 
I had problems when I installed my card for the first time and used the 7.8s. Upon re-booting it said not ATI card could be found, or it was just not boot to the windows desktop at all.

Ended up using the 7.6s that came with the card and all is fine

Diddy
 
Cyber-Mav said:
official word from ati is that they have ended agp card support as of driver 7.7
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i don't believe that at all. that's just plain daft. i know they had issues with 7.8/7.9s and even told people not to download them in their release notes - but abandoning them altogether? :confused:

my main OS is vista32 and i've ran every single version fine since january (except the 7.5s - they wouldn't run @ 1440x900 for loads of people - not just agp users). now i know loads of people don't use vista yet, but as i said above, the 7.10s worked fine when i tried xp a few weeks back (tried the crysis demo and episode 2)
 
Thank you for that jigger. Looking at the card's spec, it seems very impressive. I have just read a review, which is all in favour of this card. But only if the rest of the machine is up to it and I think that will be my problem.

My old machine: AthlonXP 2600+ (2080MHz), NVIDIA nForce2, 1500MB Ram, 400Watt PSU.

I don't think my PC will be up to it, so I might have to rethink. Maybe, build a new PCI-E pc and get a good 1950pro G/card, but not sure what the wife will think about that.

w.
 
amdhappy said:
AthlonXP 2600+ (2080MHz)
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Blimey. Yeah I mean this in the nicest way, but I wouldn't bother with an X1950XT with that.

X1950Pro should be ok though it will still be bottlenecked in some games, mainly new RTS games or CPU-limited games with plenty of physics like Half Life 2, but the rest should use the card to most of its potential at least.
 
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