Name: armani2468 Date: April 13, 2008 at 18:00:20 Pacific Subject: Need your Recommendation on AGP 8x! OS: Win CPU/Ram: 3.01Pent 4 / 2.0 DDR
Comment:
Ok guys,
I'm asking the pros.. As many of you know the AGP MB is pretty much stone age but I built a very nice rig and I plan on keeping it for at least 2 + years. I've done a lot of research and I'm looking for the best Game Card out there it looks like the 2 finalist are :
IN the White Trunks Geforce 7800 GS OC AGP 256MB VGA DVI S-Video
IN the Black Trunks Sapphire ATI Radeon HD3850 512MB DDR3 2DVI AGP Video Card
Dude, it's not even close. The HD3850 kills the 7800GS...you shouldn't even have to ask. It is THE best AGP that was ever made & it's doubtful that ATI or nVidia will bother producing anything that will top it.
Here's what Tom's Hardware has to say about the HD3850:
"...this is the most powerful AGP card you can get. Perhaps you have an AGP gaming system you just can't bear to part with, or perhaps you have an anomalous motherboard that has both a dual-core CPU and AGP slot. Whatever the reason, you can't get better than an AGP 3850, and if anyone ever releases a more powerful card in the future for the dying bus, we'll be incredibly surprised."
"If you have some older card, and you want to refresh you system so you can play some games at a decent resolution, then the HD 3850 is just the card for you. It is the king of the AGP hill"
"This card is the best that solution for AGP machines and it's probably the last good thing that will appear as far as AGP is concerned. The AGP market is still there, but it is rapidly dying. Of course, there will be more AGP cards, but this is probably the last high-end stand of the venerable AGP"
"The SAPPHIRE HD 3850 AGP shares the 320 stream processors and 512-bit internal ring bus memory controller of the latest PCI-Express models together with multiple rendering units and a programmable tessellation unit. This new product’s unified shader architecture with support for Shader Model 4.0 and the forthcoming DirectX 10.1 combine to deliver the most outstanding graphics performance ever available to AGP users"
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