The new agp King has arrived!!!

[amk21]

This may the best agp card that will ever be made, so for all you noobs out there who still use this aging technology, you can have one final upgrade.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/01/07/sapphire_takes_radeon_hd_3850_to_agp/1

[a12ctic]

... ridiculous.

[Madpistol]

...for all 14 cards that they're going to sell, it's a good card.

[crainger]

Looks cool. My HTPC is still AGP.

[amk21]

I never though that there would be dx10.1 support for agp...

[CaptNKILL]

Eh, why not.

If you have an overclocked dual core athlon system this would max it out nicely.

This should be the last performance AGP card we see though. Everything that could make use of this card will be pretty much obsolete in the next year or two.

[Tr1cK]

Just quit saying this it the last already and maybe it will go ahead and die. You guys are just jinxing the whole industry.

[amk21]

OMG NEW agp2.0 is coming in February, its hard!!!!!

[Dreamingawake]

Actually this card might be the way to go for allot of people.

If I was still running an AGP board I'd grab this, and just wait for a year
to do a complete system overhaul.

[SH64]

Count me in as the first buyer if it ever make it to market.

But wait .. i'm not sure if its gonna coop pretty well with a P4 :o

[$n][pErMan]

looks to be CPU limited.... lol.

[Intel17]

*hugs his 7800GS*

I paid $300 for it, so I want to squeeze every moment of gaming out of it until my new rig arrives.

But, on topic: I guess this new AGP card is good for those looking to upgrade, but really, at this point AGP is a dead horse. I flippin' paid $300 for my 7800gs, which is considerably slower than the equally priced PCI-E 7800GTs on the shelf next to it, back in the day. It probably would have made more sense to just move to PCI-E...meh, no matter. I'll never make that mistake again.

So, yeah, great...new AGP card to keep the platform on lifesupport, but I'm sure it'll be overpriced and simply not as good as PCI-E solutions.

...nevertheless, I don't regret buying my 7800gs *lurb*

[Rollo]

Personally I'm waiting for the VESA version. (nana2)

[j0j081]

*hugs his 7800GS*

I paid $300 for it, so I want to squeeze every moment of gaming out of it until my new rig arrives.

But, on topic: I guess this new AGP card is good for those looking to upgrade, but really, at this point AGP is a dead horse. I flippin' paid $300 for my 7800gs, which is considerably slower than the equally priced PCI-E 7800GTs on the shelf next to it, back in the day. It probably would have made more sense to just move to PCI-E...meh, no matter. I'll never make that mistake again.

So, yeah, great...new AGP card to keep the platform on lifesupport, but I'm sure it'll be overpriced and simply not as good as PCI-E solutions.

...nevertheless, I don't regret buying my 7800gs *lurb*
yeah my PCIe 8600gt even outperforms my old 7800gs I paid more than double the price for about a year and a half earlier. I bought this 8600gt for cheap until I save for a high end card but have been nothing but impressed with it's performance coming from an AGP system. it even runs UT3 on relatively high settings as long as I don't put the resolution too high. my 7800gs on the other hand would choke on it.

[rage10]

I paid 260 for my 7950 gt 512 agp. it was a good deal at the time but I misread the cpu fsb speed and thought that my system would last longer. looking back it would have saver me close to 400 to do a full system build with pci-e. I'll probobly do that after the summer.

[EciDemon]

I was thrilled when I saw the Xfx 7950 Gtx AGP (the one with active one slot cooling). So i orderd one for my old system (amd 64 3500+) to replace the 6800 agp (with all pipelines unlocked)


It worked great for about 10 minutes ... Darn fast cards but it seems those xfx cards are unstable (after a few hours of googleing).

First one had serious graphical glitches after just 10 minutes of ingame use. And the card was permanantly damaged.

Got it replaced with a new one, and it also last for 10 minutes or so, then permanant damage yet again. Then I sayd screw it and bought a 360 thinking this was the end of my pc gaming lol

Really bad luck.
But I also know saw people talking about the card and was very happy with it.