Well EVGA now has a 6800 GS 256mb AGP card!

[Airbrushkid]

There taking preorders.

http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=256-A8-N387-TX

[Roadhog]

omg yes, now all we need is a agp 7800GT!

[jAkUp]

Nice :D 350MHz/1GHz

[Roadhog]

so who wants to buy a 6600GT. ;)

[zer0]

350, not 400?

[Airbrushkid]

XFX has one coming too. I'm just going to wait and see.:nana:

[jAkUp]

I'm sure you can get the extra 50MHz out of the core.

[aop]

I wouldn't be so sure if it's the old NV40 core. I had a GF6800 and it went nicely over 400MHz core but many have had cards that haven't managed to OC so well.

[zer0]

I wouldn't be so sure if it's the old NV40 core. I had a GF6800 and it went nicely over 400MHz core but many have had cards that haven't managed to OC so well.

i'm currently using a Palit 6800 128mb... only up to 385mhz.

[aop]

i'm currently using a Palit 6800 128mb... only up to 385mhz.
Yup, just like I said, many NV40 cores just don't manage to break the 400MHz barrier.

[KickAssCop]

So is this basically a 6800 128 MB AGP w/ ramped up clock speeds and 256 MB GDDR3 ram? Because if it is, I don't see the point? It better be the core on the 6800GS PCI e which owns some serious ass.

[aop]

So is this basically a 6800 128 MB AGP w/ ramped up clock speeds and 256 MB GDDR3 ram? Because if it is, I don't see the point? It better be the core on the 6800GS PCI e which owns some serious ass.
There is a point, actually many of them:
1. Dumping away old NV40 cores from storages, >90% of them do 12/5@350MHz = money to NVIDIA, new AGP cards to customers.
2. It's basically the same card as Asus V9999GE = 90% of GF6800GTs performance, same performance as X800Pro AGP, see reviews (Google is your friend).
3. No other GF6800 series AGP cards are produced anymore = fastest NVIDIA based AGP card that is still delivered and produced.

[JamesDax]

Actually concerning your third point there is a 6800XT AGP being delivered and produced, but you're right the 6800GS is the fastest availible for AGP right now unless you can still find a GT or Ultra lying around.

[hemmy]

My 6800NU can bench at 430 with stock cooling (3dm03, 05, aquamark)

i wonder if these can unlock pipes

[LanceX]

XFX has one coming too. I'm just going to wait and see.:nana:
yep, same here (mikec)

[snowmanwithahat]

Once again.... this uses an nv40 gpu, look at the clock speeds, if it was a true nv42 it'd run at 425mhz no problem, but instead of using the HSI Bridge to bridge down the nv42 to AGP, they used an nv40 gpu, which i've said this before, that takes away the defining factor of a 6800 GS, this is just a slightly overclocked 6800 with GDDR3 memory, can't say i'm impressed with the solutions they've been using, a bridged nv42 gpu would be much cooler

[Player2]

Once again.... this uses an nv40 gpu, look at the clock speeds, if it was a true nv42 it'd run at 425mhz no problem, but instead of using the HSI Bridge to bridge down the nv42 to AGP, they used an nv40 gpu, which i've said this before, that takes away the defining factor of a 6800 GS, this is just a slightly overclocked 6800 with GDDR3 memory, can't say i'm impressed with the solutions they've been using, a bridged nv42 gpu would be much cooler

This has been what was expected though, all along it was going to be the "old" part etc...Though 1st Q06 we hope to see somthing "else" for AGP...and hope the crapy AF is fixed...
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[Airbrushkid]

Still better then my 6600GT 256 mb agp card.

[jAkUp]

AGP sure seems to have gone out alot sooner than most expected.

PCI is still hanging on, I wish we would do away with PCI already. And Parallel and Serial ports are still here for some reason... lol. IDE should be gone soon as well...

[Airbrushkid]

They should take the video card and make a box for it with power and fans. And it's not inside the computer case. Should be all by itself. Just plug it in to the computer and monitor and play.