AGP upgrade?

liquidfluidity

liquidfluidity

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I have a XT800 XT PE AGP and am interested in some opinions on what to go to next that would show a definite increase in quality and speed. I don't like overclocking but I can deal with a little but would prefer to see some differences at stock settings. I do very little gaming but when I do , it's something pretty current. I mostly run video encoding and conversion(resource killers!).
I'm not too worried about bottlenecking as I am running 2 3Ghz Xeons , 2Gb PC3500 , and a Raptor drive for doing the work on . Right now , I think this is my weakest link. I am using these components on an Asus NCCH-DL and am not ready to upgrade. If I did , it would be for something with a faster than 800 FSB not to convert to PCI - EX.
What are your suggestions for an AGP card and give some reasoning or experience to support it.

Thanks!
 
If you absolutely want the best AGP video card, then the X1950Pro is what you need. The other choice would be the 7800GS, but it's not as fast as the X1950Pro. Since you aren't ready to upgrade to PCI-E, then those two cards are really the only choices that'd be worth it for a definite increase in quality and speed. I upgraded from a X800Pro to the X1950Pro (OC'ed) and I notice a nice leap in speed, quality and performance.

If you don't want to worry about OCing the card yourself, there's a few of them OC'ed right from the box, like the HIS IceQ3 Turbo cards. :D
 
The 1950 was the direction I was leaning. I just want to make sure, as this machine is about done for the upgrades and I really want to see the difference in this one. Thanks for replying. Anybody else with an opinion?
 
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