Budget AGP Card

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sethmo

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Looking for a budget video card that will play all newer games descently. In my old rig I had a 9800 Pro 128mb and it played all my games just fine. Parted that machine out now I am on my Jetway barebone that has onboard MX400 which plays CS:S at low res but isnt any good for much else.

Is the 6600GT still the best budget card to buy? I think they are around $130-150 now which is about what I want to spend.
 
yeah, or for 200 you could get a 6800gs which is a load better but the AGP version may not be out yet, and it is obviously more money.
 
Saw a PCI-E 6600GT on NewEgg for $102, but I have an AGP slot :(

Cheapest AGP 6600GT is around $130-140. Nothing newer out thats better in this pricerange? Havent been paying any attention to the newer ATi x*00 cards.
 
There was a thread about a week ago that the concensus was that the standard x800 was better than the 6600gt too, but that was PCI-e as well and I don't know if they make an agp x800
 
Newegg has refurbished 6800GT's priced in the $200 range. You might want to check out the cards in the refurb section, or the for sale and trade section. I just sold my 6800GT for $190
 
LongShotHero said:
There was a thread about a week ago that the concensus was that the standard x800 was better than the 6600gt too, but that was PCI-e as well and I don't know if they make an agp x800
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There are indeed AGP X800s, but for some reason they are all horribly overpriced. The X800GTs, though, aren't that bad:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102619

Pretty good performance for the price, at least.
 
HaskE said:
The reason the x800 agp cards are over piriced it that the if they have VIVO they have a good chance of being "unlocked".
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the part in bold juss doesnt make sense, reword it perhaps? i juss dont understand wat you are trying to say
 
N H O said:
the part in bold juss doesnt make sense, reword it perhaps? i juss dont understand wat you are trying to say
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I think he meant that they are priced that way because of the fact that they have VIVO, and are therefore unlockable.

Still, I thought the X800XTs have VIVO too, so I'm not entirely sure that's the reason. Never heard anything about VIVO being related to unlockability either.
 
HaskE said:
The X800 and X850 pro series have 12 piplines. While the XT and PE versions have 16 pipelines.

Some of the cards can be flashed to unlock the xtra pipes.

READ! the link below... :)

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/100
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Yeah! I know they can be unlocked! Well, as you said, some anyway.

But that doesn't explain why the AGP versions of the X800 and X850 are priced MORE than the AGP versions of the X800/X850 XTs... :rolleyes: Especially since you have to unlock the extra pipelines first. And it's all a crapshoot anyway.

edit: BTW, there are no AGP X800 PROs... so he couldn't use those anyway.
 
Not upset. Nor excited? Well maybe a little. But Xmas is only 2 days away now. :D

Clicked on your link, and saw that there were AGP PROs. I thought I remember reading something that said there weren't a while back, but I guess I was mistaken.

BTW, I was comparing prices between the vanilla X800 and the X800GT, as shown on Newegg. I wasn't talking about the prices of the PROs or the XTs, sorry if that caused confusion:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814125205 X800
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102619 X800GT
 
Hmm how does the X800GT compare to the X800? Ill have to wait untill next paycheck and pick something up.
 
PWMK2 said:
I think he meant that they are priced that way because of the fact that they have VIVO, and are therefore unlockable.

Still, I thought the X800XTs have VIVO too, so I'm not entirely sure that's the reason. Never heard anything about VIVO being related to unlockability either.
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ah thanks for rewording it but ive seen many AGP X800's that dont hav VIVO
 
New Egg has a nicely priced 256mb x800gto that's AGP for about $200.
We'll see how well it does since it's due to show up on my doorstep next week and replace an aging AIW 9700pro.

The x800gto is supposed to be equivalent to a 6600gt I've read.

[edit] This card has no VIVO, the x800gto2 has VIVO and costs about $20 more but is PCI-E only.
 
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