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Wow, I'm not alone:

MSI 6600GT in a box, x850-xt in the 'puter, about to buy a Saphire 1950pro 512 unless someone can convince me it's a mistake :)
 
Still running an X800 AIW. It's the first computer part I've owned in 10+ years of building that went up in value after 6 months. I paid $190 and they're selling on eBay for $240-250. I do not use the AIW aspect of it so I may sell it and get an X1950 AGP.
 
still rockin the agp!!!

just recently upgraded to a 7950GT 512mb with 1.4ghz memory....the things a monster! quite an improvement over my previous 7800gs oc

agp or die!
 
Going to get the x1950 when i get the money ;). i have 3GB of ram and an xp-mobile@243fsb*10 so it should be able to run it all smooth ;).
 
P3N1X0R said:
still rockin the agp!!!

just recently upgraded to a 7950GT 512mb with 1.4ghz memory....the things a monster! quite an improvement over my previous 7800gs oc

agp or die!
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I haven't switched to PCI-express yet either. I don't game as much as I used to but my 6800GT seems to be hangin in there. Did I miss something. I didn't know there was a 79XX series AGP card. What is the best AGP out there now? The X1950XT or the 7950GT?

I see no reason to upgrade yet. My 3.7GHZ @ 932FSB P4 is still kicking butt.

 
Shmuckety said:
I haven't switched to PCI-express yet either. I don't game as much as I used to but my 6800GT seems to be hangin in there. Did I miss something. I didn't know there was a 79XX series AGP card. What is the best AGP out there now? The X1950XT or the 7950GT?

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I do believe the X1950XT is a bit faster but the 7950 is a single slot card as opposed to the X1950 being a triple slot card (HUGE)
 
I'm still running a X850 Pro, but I trying to make the best of it! Arctic cooling fan + overclock + all 16 pipes unlocked
 
Hell yeah, just upgraded from evga 6800 agp to Diamond Viper x1950pro 512Mb agp. Call me a lunatic or what, here I am, AGP club!
 
Made the switch to PCI-E in late 2006. I have no beefs with AGP but the problem with AGP today is it is being fazed out and finding any decent AGP alternatives in 2007 is getting slim to none. By 2008 I can't see AGP having any kind of hold on the market anymore. PCI Express is here to stay and it will be the standard for years to come. Either get on board or put the PC away and stick with consoles....
 
maleficarus said:
Made the switch to PCI-E in late 2006. I have no beefs with AGP but the problem with AGP today is it is being fazed out and finding any decent AGP alternatives in 2007 is getting slim to none. By 2008 I can't see AGP having any kind of hold on the market anymore. PCI Express is here to stay and it will be the standard for years to come. Either get on board or put the PC away and stick with consoles....
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Well, thanks for sharing your opinion with us, but had you read a few of the last 250 posts, you probably would have noticed that this thread is aimed at those of us who still have AGP machines... soooo... thanks again, but why not take it somewhere else, mmkay?
 
maleficarus said:
Made the switch to PCI-E in late 2006. I have no beefs with AGP but the problem with AGP today is it is being fazed out and finding any decent AGP alternatives in 2007 is getting slim to none. By 2008 I can't see AGP having any kind of hold on the market anymore. PCI Express is here to stay and it will be the standard for years to come. Either get on board or put the PC away and stick with consoles....
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That's what people said in 2005 about 2006 and 2007.
 
maleficarus said:
Made the switch to PCI-E in late 2006. I have no beefs with AGP but the problem with AGP today is it is being fazed out and finding any decent AGP alternatives in 2007 is getting slim to none. By 2008 I can't see AGP having any kind of hold on the market anymore. PCI Express is here to stay and it will be the standard for years to come. Either get on board or put the PC away and stick with consoles....
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your opinion of pci-e is highly valued in this agp-centric thread.

thanks for your comments and insight, without it, we would have never known
 
From my first Voodoo 3000 64 (must check card to verify, still in parts bin and still WORKS!) to my newest upgrade of the X1950pro 256mb, still rocken the AGP SLUT's err slots =). Besides, it makes upgrading the wifes rig even easier!!! :D


To date:
Voodoo 3000 (will work on 4x AGP slot!!)
9800 Pro (still in wife's box)
6800LE 256MB version ( w/ all pipes OpeneD and 420/825 clocks!!!)
X1950Pro (makes my gaming box GTG for atleast another year of AGP!)
 
I'll join, I've got an XFX 6800 128mb AGP unlocked with 16pp and OC'd a bit. It's served me well for 3 years (new one coming in June).
 
I have 2 agp cards even. ;) a 9800XT AND an X800XL. The XT is tucked quietly back in it's box, the XL is sitting pretty in my backup box with 3GB ram, 830GB of HD storage, and 3.25GB of overclocked Pentium4 glory!!! Soon to be dual booting whichever flavor of Linux I plan to try to break next as well as Vista. :D
 
I can really taste a new rig with PCI-E.

Installed Test Drive Unlimited the other night and my rig isn't runnin' like it used to. P4 3.0C, 2 GB of DDR with an ATI 9700 Pro.. I'm able to run it at 800x600 with High Details @ 4X AA and able to squeeze 20-30 FPS with occasional slow downs, not all that shabby I suppose since the ATI 9700 Pro is in the "unsupported" cards section in the TDU Readme.. LOL.

I bought that puppy (BB ATI 9700 Pro) the first week it was launched when I had a P3 800mhz and a huge amount of 384 MB of SDRam. I kept it when I built my P4 3.0C and she's still running strong today, after I had to get a new VGA Silencer for it. (Little ol' stock ATI fan couldn't turn it's wheels anymore, about two years ago.)


-R
 
MetalX said:
That's what people said in 2005 about 2006 and 2007.
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I know. But look at the offerings for AGP today? What do you see?

Slim to none...and this will only get worse over the next year. We might and I say might see a 8600 AGP card but I can't see any series 9 AGP cards on the market.
 
maleficarus said:
I know. But look at the offerings for AGP today? What do you see?

Slim to none...and this will only get worse over the next year. We might and I say might see a 8600 AGP card but I can't see any series 9 AGP cards on the market.
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Who cares your threadjacking just to talk shit and troll. Your AGP is dead opinion is not welcomed here in a 13 page thread full of people still running AGP.
 
maleficarus said:
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I'll try a different approach here. Since I'm the AGP Club's Ambassador of Good Will, I will ask nicely..

Please leave this thread alone. It's been just fine for the last 250+ posts, and we would like it to stay that way. This is not a thread about which is better, or why people should switch to PCIe.... it's a thread for those of us that still use, and like AGP cards.

If you want to debate over video card interface types.. go and dig up one of the thousands of threads that have already been started... or go start your own, but just leave this one alone.

Thanks, we appreciate it.
 
Still got a GeForce Ti200 running in my backup machine lol. The fan has died on it so I slapped an old CPU fan from a oldschool x86 computer on it and it runs fine except for gaming, where I think it's gettin too warm and errors out Q_Q
 
digital_exhaust said:
I'll try a different approach here. Since I'm the AGP Club's Ambassador of Good Will, I will ask nicely..

Please leave this thread alone. It's been just fine for the last 250+ posts, and we would like it to stay that way. This is not a thread about which is better, or why people should switch to PCIe.... it's a thread for those of us that still use, and like AGP cards.

If you want to debate over video card interface types.. go and dig up one of the thousands of threads that have already been started... or go start your own, but just leave this one alone.

Thanks, we appreciate it.
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Ahh ok...*leaves with head down*
 
I bought an ATI refurb X800XL for my [email protected] + A7N8X box last year. It runs rFactor, the IL-2 series, HL2 and Galciv2 pretty much maxed out at 1200x900.

I'm not sure what hardware to upgrade next. If I get a big flatscreen, an x1950 (or whatever the baddest AGP offering is) just might make some sense. Otherwise, I think I'll be waiting another half year (at lest) and go whole hog for a quad core setup.

My whole 'problem' is the lack of a killer app / game. Crysis and some other upcoming games look great, but will the gameplay justify the $$$ spent on hardware??? Doom3 looked great too, but turned out to be a waste of $45. (IMO!) Back when I was intently playing GPL, my thirst for frames drove me to purchases 4 cpus, two motherboards, and no less than 5 video cards over a ~2 year span. Contrast that period with the last two+ years running rFactor; when I purchased only 1 chip and 1 vidcard. If the next hardcore racing game features rain and weather effects, that will probably force my hardware to crawl a few steps up the feeding chain.

-Moo!
 
BFG Tech GeForce FX 5700LE
ATi 9800 Pro
Sapphire ATi x800 GTO
Asus V9950
-Now flashed to Leadtek A380U. Temps went from 60* idle to 35*, and from 90* load to 60* load. No idea why the temps were so damn high with the stock Asus bios, but they were.

I went from the 5700LE to the 9800 Pro because the 5700 wasn't doing what I needed it to. Then I went to the GTO since one of the ram chips on the 9800 cracked while I had it out of the case; why or how I do not know. Then the GTO passed away when I forgot to put the rubber washers in between the screws and nipples of my VF700-Cu.

So here I am with an Asus V9950 flashed to a Leadtek A380U. Certainly no the best performer and nowhere near astonishing performance, but for UT2004, Warcraft III, CoD2 @ DX7, Painkiller, and Halo, it does just fine. And in the event I need to put the res to 640x480, I just think of it as playing my Xbox (original) on my Samsung PX-T2734. (Still runs fine and dandy just as when I bought it two years ago.) That always makes me fell good. :p

I do, however, need a new processor and power supply. My 2.6a is nearly chipped to death, but still works, and my 400w Ultra has a couple bulgy cap's. Other than that, AGP FTW!:D
 
eVGA GeForce 6800, all pipes unlocked @ 400/810 :D

Also got a eVGA GeForce 2 MX200 PCI running in my file server so I'm in that club too :p

I also had a Trident 512K VLB video card (does 8-bit color at 800x600 max, plays DOOM ok woohoo) but it got thrown out a couple years ago during spring cleaning :(.
 
digital_exhaust said:
I'll try a different approach here. Since I'm the AGP Club's Ambassador of Good Will, I will ask nicely..

Please leave this thread alone. It's been just fine for the last 250+ posts, and we would like it to stay that way. This is not a thread about which is better, or why people should switch to PCIe.... it's a thread for those of us that still use, and like AGP cards.

If you want to debate over video card interface types.. go and dig up one of the thousands of threads that have already been started... or go start your own, but just leave this one alone.

Thanks, we appreciate it.
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Good work Ambassador of Good Will :) Also keep in mind to anybody else who wants to mess with us.... we also have FLECOM in the club.. top folder in the #1 folding team([H[) also an moderator here so he and our secretary of defense can kick ur a**es :) just a heads up.

Also ive been reading where people said that they unlocked their pipes of their cards.. Well I have several questions... what benefits are there when you unlock ur pipes of the cards? Do you actually see a huge difference? Im planning to do this to my ati 9550 but not my ati firegl x3 as its $500+ and dont want to ruin it :p Thanks
 
Count me in. Only just read the whole thread - I'd no idea there were so many of us left!

It would be a joy and an honour to be a Regular Member of the AGP Club. Also, if anyone had any expert advice on overclocking a 9800XT, I would be very interested.

Cheers.
 
Rezident said:
Count me in. Only just read the whole thread - I'd no idea there were so many of us left!

It would be a joy and an honour to be a Regular Member of the AGP Club. Also, if anyone had any expert advice on overclocking a 9800XT, I would be very interested.

Cheers.
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You got a question? Well I have the answer! :p. This Is a very good but simple easy to use overclocking tool. This can even be used to overclock nvidia cards. Hope this helps!;)
 
Sure, I'll become a member. I own and use an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. :)

I might have to look at that overclocking tool. I'm not happy getting 20-30FPS Playing Day of Defeat Source, or any HL2 mod for that matter... not sure if that's where I'm supposed to be getting at or not, but to me that seems a tad bit too low... :/
 
I got an X800 Xl. Runs everything I currently play just fine. Granted the most current game I play is bf2 and 2142. Darn college :/
 
Right now i have a 9600 pro on my desktop. Im looking into getting a X1650 Pro for it. Does anyone know what kind of settings are playable in BF2 with this card with a AMD 2600+ and 1GB memory?
 
I still use a 9200 ATI and another system with an ATI X1600Pro 512 agp have to switch to PCi express sooner or later
 
Punkrulz said:
Sure, I'll become a member. I own and use an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. :)

I might have to look at that overclocking tool. I'm not happy getting 20-30FPS Playing Day of Defeat Source, or any HL2 mod for that matter... not sure if that's where I'm supposed to be getting at or not, but to me that seems a tad bit too low... :/
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No, no you shouldn't... What are your video settings set at? Screen resolution? Don't expect to play HL2 at 1600X1200 comfortably...
 
From what I've read Geforce 7xxx cards will never be DX10 compatible...is this correct? If nvidia does indeed release an 8xxx agp/DX10/Vista compatible card I would like to get one.

One thing that I've always wondered about with my 4x agp system is the aperture setting. I have mine set to 256mb (it's highest setting) Does this mean that it wouldn't pay to buy a card (whatever flavor it is) that is any higher than 256mb? :confused:

After some further thought, perhaps my system couldn't even handle the DX10/Vista setup...opinions anyone?
 
RpM63 said:
From what I've read Geforce 7xxx cards will never be DX10 compatible...is this correct? If nvidia does indeed release an 8xxx agp/DX10/Vista compatible card I would like to get one.

One thing that I've always wondered about with my 4x agp system is the aperture setting. I have mine set to 256mb (it's highest setting) Does this mean that it wouldn't pay to buy a card (whatever flavor it is) that is any higher than 256mb? :confused:
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no.

1. You're correct in assessing that the 7 series of nvidia cards won't have DX10 because the technology simply isn't there much like the X1000 series won't either.
2. You'll only benefit from a larger MB on the video card if you increase the resolution or use a game that can take advantage of the extra memory. The aperture value in the bios from what I recall just sets the allocation of video memory in the system memory through the AGP bus. This was the main feature of AGP but it never really took off because the system memory is far slower than the graphics memory.
 
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