Gainward bring you a 512MB 7900 GT for AGP!!!!

neologan · 19 Apr 2006 at 15:20

Ok, a play on gibbo's thread about the 7800 GT AGP but what the hey

http://www.pureoverclock.com/story.php?id=665

LoadsaMoney · 19 Apr 2006 at 15:58

Ahem...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17564962

Its already on here for pre-order at £352.

Gibbo · 19 Apr 2006 at 16:08

Hi there

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7800AGP_Series.html#agx_2d032_2dgw

P.S. Beaten to it, hehe.

no_1_dave · 19 Apr 2006 at 16:14

Nice

It's good to see at least one company still catering for AGP users

Vita · 19 Apr 2006 at 16:31

Damn...I should have so waited. Ah well

Cyber-Mav · 19 Apr 2006 at 16:56

im quite sure that there will be a dx10 gfx card out on agp. there userbase is just too large to ignore.

NightSt@lk3r · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:00

to be hounest since the relese of the 6800GS AGP users have been done over.

Frippy · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:04

no_1_dave said:
Nice
It's good to see at least one company still catering for AGP users

Try 'exploiting'.

Goksly · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:24

aye £350..... but if I was the only maker of that card I'd price it the same too

turbotoaster · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:29

whos gonna be the first to break break 10k with an agp card i wonder, the highest on the orb is 8397 but that was with a 2.8 single core

ive got a agp board that will run a [email protected] so if anybody wants to lend the card when it comes out ill smash 10k for ya

Cyber-Mav · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:37

is that 10k in 06?

turbotoaster · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:53

Cyber-Mav said:
is that 10k in 06?

no my system will do 16k already maybe 17k in 05 but im working on that at the moment

what i meant was ive got a spare agp board here that i can bang a gainward in and break 10k if someone wants cause ive got the cpu power to do it LOL

tmileson · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:54

Got my order in

Don't get me wrong, £350 isn't great and I do feel as if i'm being bent over a little, but, no one else does anything like this card and ultimately no ones forcing me to buy it.

To be honest I've no interest in messing around and switching to PCI-e, this PC has a life span of another year and thats it as my main gamming machine. To be honest it's running nicely and this card will see it through now until I build a new AM2/DX10/DDR 2 Vista machine early next year.

With a x2 3800 running at 2.4ghz, 2GB and this 7900GT AGP I expect this will make a good second family machine for a few years to come.

trojan698 · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:58

But you could buy a killer motherboard and a 7900gt for the same price!

tmileson · 19 Apr 2006 at 18:00

I've already got a good M/B and this is a 7900GT so what would be the point?

LoadsaMoney · 19 Apr 2006 at 18:12

The point is i suppose that for the price of that card, you could buy one on PCI-E and buy a PCI-E motherboard to go with it.

chippy001 · 19 Apr 2006 at 18:29

Frippy said:
Try 'exploiting'.

I pefectly agree with your comment. Why did Gainward introduce the 7800 GT AGP 512Mb a few weeks back if they knew they were going to introduce this one a couple of weeks later. I bought the 7800 GT AGP yesterday and I feel ripped off, to say the least. Introducing a better card every six months is one thing but every three weeks is unacceptable. I am even more dissapointed by Overclockers UK for accepting the 7800GTs (AGP) from Gainward instead of waiting for the 7900 GTs and make us beleive that this will be the fastest AGP card around where they pefectly new that an even better one was just around the corner.

This a dirty game!!!!!!

Frippy · 19 Apr 2006 at 18:36

Although I understand what you have said I would like to point out that Overclockers try to fill a hole in the market whenever they can. The release of the 7900GT on AGP format would be a godsend to some, not everyone can build computers and a high performance plug and play card is ideal. The money issue is now rather pointless as it has been pointed out many many times that a new cpu and board and PCIexpress card workes out cheaper than buying one of these AGP cards.

The same was felt by the majority who bought an X1800 card only to realise there were the X1900 cards to be released in a short space of time. Everything gets superceeded, gpu's are no different.

trojan698 · 19 Apr 2006 at 18:40

Technology moves on at the end of the day, it simply baffles me why anyone would spend £350 on a graphics card for an outdated and lets face it, dieing platform.
I can't agree with the 'exploited' comment, agp cards have been more expensive for a long time now and no ones forcing you stay on AGP, infact the price should surely be pushing you towards pci-e.

tmileson · 19 Apr 2006 at 18:52

trojan698 said:
Technology moves on at the end of the day, it simply baffles me why anyone would spend £350 on a graphics card for an outdated and lets face it, dieing platform.

You're missing the point, the fact remains that an AGP based system with this card will work as well and give roughly the same performance as a PCI-e based system with a 7900gt. The fact that it will be out of date in a years time is neither here nor there, so will your Socket 939 PCI-e based system.

Granted at some point in the future I will have to buy a PCI-e motherboard and video card. That however will be an AM2 socket based system, presumably with DDR2 RAM and a DX10 GPU. Buying a PCI-e motherboard now would be pointless as if anyone is planning to upgrade the Processor a year from now they will need a AM2 based board (with new RAM).

I could equally say it baffles me why people spend so much money on the current gen PCI-e Socket 939 motherboards which are lets face it a dieing platform

A standard PCI-e board with current RAM and a PCI-e video card really doesn't have much more of a life than my AGP 7900GT, 2GB, X2, set up