Have a good system and dont feel like tearing it apart to switch to a new board with PCI-E. Both for ATI and Nvidia, though I prefer ATI.

11/14/2005 5:31:16 PM

How much you looking to spend? You can get x850XT for just over $400, X800's series in the 300's...don't see any 6800/7800's on newegg for agp (are they only PCI-e? never looked as I'm an ATI user)

11/14/2005 5:37:04 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121519

I have this in PCI-E, and it runs BF2 on high with no problem. I'd imagine there isn't a huge difference between the interfaces

11/14/2005 6:46:31 PM

hmmm I have an ATI 9600 XT 256MB and I seem to run everything, including BF2 very well..maybe I'll hold out awhile and get that x800 or x850 XT when they come down in price. A 512 MB card would be great too, but I dont see any AGP ones on pricewatch.

11/14/2005 7:00:50 PM

if you're going fine on what you want now, you may as well wait on a card until you're ready to build a new machine. it would be a shame to spend money on an AGP card now and wish in a year you had gone PCI-e

11/14/2005 7:16:10 PM

Good advice.

11/14/2005 7:26:53 PM

6800GT i think is agp...

11/14/2005 7:43:56 PM

512mb agp cards will probably never exist, so don't hold out for one of those. The 6600GT is a good card for around $140. If you wanna spend like double that, the 6800GT or x800xL are both good ways to go.

11/14/2005 8:14:41 PM

mine

11/14/2005 8:41:58 PM

Quote :

"I have this in PCI-E, and it runs BF2 on high with no problem. I'd imagine there isn't a huge difference between the interfaces"

lmao

11/14/2005 10:08:34 PM

I'm getting the x850xt PE after christmas

11/14/2005 10:15:41 PM

Quote :

"512mb agp cards will probably never exist"

Why's that?

^^ What? Go to Tomshardware, look at the benchmarks. There isn't a significant speed difference between AGP and PCI-E cards.

11/14/2005 10:21:00 PM

agp is dead. Neither nvidia nor ati has released plans to continue making AGP cards. The main reasons are:

1. PCI-e offers more available power
2. PCI-e will lead the way with more bandwith intensive software

11/14/2005 10:30:20 PM

there STILL is not difference in performance

11/14/2005 10:51:49 PM

At the moment there is almost no difference in performance. The transition from agp to pci-e is just like the transition from ddr to ddr2 memory. It is necessary to take the next step for the future.

11/14/2005 11:02:33 PM

haha my bad, i read it as you were trying to sell him yours and saying that it would work in his AGP slot

11/14/2005 11:05:02 PM

Ah

Dude, if you push hard enough it'll fit. I promise

11/14/2005 11:44:30 PM

A good ati card, why don't you stick some aluminum foil in you pic-e slot?

Nvidea, now there's a card.

11/15/2005 12:06:44 AM

i'm happy with my ATI x800XL 512 - runs BF@ maxed out on everything...12 pixel pipelines too

thou ATI just released the x1800....oh my....512, 16 pipes....

11/15/2005 3:38:02 AM