Fastest AGP card?

[370forlife]

I need a good agp card for my new IBM dual 604 board with a agp pro 50 slot (compatible with agp 8x/4x/2x,)

I was thinking like a radeon x1650, good bit of performance without breaking the bank.

But i also found a 3dlabs card for cheap. A 512mb wildcat PRO VP880.

[pentium]

Re: Fastest AGP card?

From what I recall, the latest and greatest AGP video card made is the Sapphire Radeon HD3850 AGP. It needs a honkin' 30A on the 12V rail but it's the best AGP card out there right now (and probably forever since most people now use PCI express).

[Scenic]

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"a little" less power hungry and a bit more friendly to your wallet would be a GeForce 6800GT.

Paired with an Arctic Cooling nV Silencer 5 they're just perfect.. :]

*cough*
http://euda.ath.cx/yafu/449267108/GF6800_madness.jpg

[gustie]

Re: Fastest AGP card?

you have FOUR?!

i need good AGP too

running 5700 515mhz GPU and 620mhz memory - now thats WEAK

[Scenic]

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i also have a Leadtek WinFast A350 Ultra MyViVo (GF5900 Ultra), but it seems that this card overheated once... some random pixels everywhere...

one of those puppies (lower one)


review: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...ew/default.asp

[370forlife]

Re: Fastest AGP card?

I just found a 3dlabs wildcat VP990 512mb. On paper, its twice as fast as a 8600gt. about 200 Gigaflops, an 8600gt is about 110-120 Gigaflops.

[pentium]

Re: Fastest AGP card?

I thought the wildcat series was only good for OpenGL stuff and had absolutely no DirectX support?
My cards at least don't like DirectX

[Wizard]

Re: Fastest AGP card?

Stick with older video cards on AGP, if you can't get a new HD3650 AGP or HD3850 AGP under 100.

But DON'T forget, the AGP is incrediably narrow bandwith compared to PCI-E and new PCI-E even with HD3650 or HD3870 thumps AGP stuff and cost is LESS.

Cheers, Wizard

[Junk Parts]

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The best AGP card I have is an older ATI Radeon All In Wonder. Me thinks its 1x,2x,4x. XP calls this card a radeon 7200 series but I don't think thats right. I seem to remember that the newer ATI drivers that I'm using identify the card wrong but it works just fine. It does the open GL, and direct X stuff too. The ATI card I have is the best AGP card they made without the built in TV tunner stuff. It has s-video out, composit video out, and VGA out. If you can find one of these used I think it will do what you want it to.

[370forlife]

Re: Fastest AGP card?

I thought the wildcat series was only good for OpenGL stuff and had absolutely no DirectX support?
My cards at least don't like DirectX

According to their datasheets, it has DX9 support.