AGP get a new highend card

[38ruk]

The X1950 pro is now the best agp card on the market . The only test the 7800 beat it in was quake which is always the case with nvidia vs ati .

Here is the summary , if ya want to read the whole review just hit the Table of Contents

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/powercolor_radeon_x1950_pro_agp_review/page16.asp

[Krusty]

Very very interesting. No doubt nVidia will reply, but probably not for a long time (hell, it's taken ATI this long to de-throne the 7800GS!). I'm glad that there's some glimmer of hope for AGP folks. I gave up and went PCIe, but it's good that they're not being totally forgotten.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

AGP is not a bottleneck at current tech, the switch to PCIE was done because it was cheaper.

[wabbit]

Both my systems are AGP so I've been looking to upgrade to the best card I could find before AGP dies out, just to extent the life of my motherboards.

I've been looking at the BFG Tech GeForce 7800GS myself, just waiting for a good price, without some blasted rebate. It's a 256mb card with 256-bit memory. Got decent reviews too. Never been much of a fan of the ATI cards. I'm nvidia all the way!  
Right now, the 7800GS is going for around $224.00. I've seen it as low as $175.00, but that was with a rebate, and I don't do rebates, especially when the company rebate form has such strict rules for their form. It sounds like they're just looking for an excuse to deny the rebate if you don't fill out the form perfectly.

Wabb

[Krusty]

Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
AGP is not a bottleneck at current tech, the switch to PCIE was done because it was cheaper.

In today's market it's also more prolific. There's much much more variety and competition among the PCIe cards than there is among the AGP cards, if you're looking for something decent these days. That's the only reason I switched: because there were precious few options in AGP. That, and they strip down the AGP high-end cards (7800GS) to be totally gimped compared to the PCIe counterpart. The total disregard for anybody still using AGP got to me, struck a nerve, so I switched.

This new X1950 sounds good, to be sure, but it's probably going to be one of the few that are good in AGP.

[38ruk]

I also switched to pcie for Video card reasons . It wasnt a bandwith problem, it was basically the manufacturers practically forcing people to pcie with the way they de-nutted higher end agp , then making you pay more for them compared to their pcie counter part . I guess it cheaper to make pcie cards .