Best Bang-for-Buck AGP Solution?

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While I was sleeping (surgery and recovery), it seems AGP has gone the way of the dodo.

From his description, I think my nephew's video card has died. He's planning on hanging onto his motherboard, CPU and RAM for awhile and I don't think his current system has PCI Express. (I'll have to check the specs to know for sure.) Somehow I doubt he kept the manual.

Anyway, I was wondering if someone could direct me to the best bang-for-buck AGP solution if he can't do PCI express right now.

Thanks.
 
Check out the hot deals forum for those refurbished ATI cards, they have a 1 year warrantee. Chances are his card that died sucks and the x800xl would be better. USUALLY people that have good cards could give the model name and a bunch of other specs from memory.
Make sure its at least an AGP4x compatable motherboard though, the older AGp standards i believe use a higher voltage and wont work wtih modern cards.
 
There's a new X850 on shop.ati.com for really short money. Just make sure that the power supply is up to the task.

ATI has some killer deals right now on AGP parts that I'd love to jump on, but I'm holding out for my systemwide updrade for Vista...
 
6800GT bar none.... easilly out performs most of its Ati rivals and can be found rather cheepie on fleabay.
 
Atanum141 said:
6800GT bar none.... easilly out performs most of its Ati rivals and can be found rather cheepie on fleabay.
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The refurb x800xl outperforms it and is WAY cheaper.. DIRECT from ati, has a warrenty (unlike buying anything from ebay) and is in new condition.. not used. :rolleyes:
 
lloose said:
The refurb x800xl outperforms it and is WAY cheaper.. DIRECT from ati, has a warrenty (unlike buying anything from ebay) and is in new condition.. not used. :rolleyes:
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I was under the impression that those cards direct from ATI were refurbished cards, hence actually used but with a warranty from the company.

I've used both the 6800 GS and the x800 gto, both with unlocked pipes. I would have to say that it's a tradeoff on which is the better card. Each card has its strengths in each game and it's unfair to say that one outperforms the other.
 
ATI 9700/9800 Pro. you can find them for 25-50 dollars? I can play cs: source fine on these suckers.
 
lloose said:
The refurb x800xl outperforms it and is WAY cheaper.. DIRECT from ati, has a warrenty (unlike buying anything from ebay) and is in new condition.. not used. :rolleyes:
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Cool, but thats against a stock 6800GT what about when you start clock it again the x800xl? the 6800's go well past Ultra speeds espically when it comes to the core clock Vs. the Ati card.

Im not bashing the Ati card but the 6800GT Oc'd is a better investment due to the high Oc's and also the inclusiong of PixelShader3 and other advancements agains the x800 series which was lacking in most departments compared to the 6800 series that Nvidia bought out.
 
lloose said:
The refurb x800xl outperforms it and is WAY cheaper.. DIRECT from ati, has a warrenty (unlike buying anything from ebay) and is in new condition.. not used. :rolleyes:
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a BFG card off ebay would have warranty
 
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