Graphics Best AGP card?

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  1. Buzzons

    Buzzons Minimodder

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    What's the best AGP card out there at the moment? (can it be passivly cooled?)
     
    Buzzons, 26 Mar 2008
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  3. mrplow

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    Jesus, they made one of those?

    I was all ready with my AGP x1950XT suggestion (which I wouldn't recommend trying to cool passively......)
     
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  4. Buzzons

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    so no good nVidia ones?
     
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    I might be wrong on this, but the last Nvidia AGP card I know of is the 7800 GS, which is pretty dated now, losing out to the X1950.
     
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    Nvidia did make a 7950GT in AGP which is comparable (just a bit slower) to the X1950xt.

    There have been rumors of G8x and G9x agp versions, but the estimated dates for these rumors have long since passed.
     
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  7. Buzzons

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    fair play, guess it'll be the ATI card then. :( Saphire look like they do a passive one but it's PCIe -- any chance that the chips will be in different places so their cooler would not work on an AGP version?
     
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    Cards that are originally made for PCI-E do have the chip which provides AGP<->PCI-E signals, so I think you'll need a special cooler which fits on an AGP card.
     
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    Just buy something cheap off ebay (6800GT etc), don't waste your money on the best AGP card :p
     
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    fine, best agp card that can easily be silently cooled. (better than a 6600GT)
     
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  11. byronrock

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    you can buy a 3850 AGP version and then you can buy a third passive cooling heatsink, the Artic cooling Accelero s2 is around $25 (i dont know how is that in UK), and even if you can find the Accelero S1 that also fit in the 3850 i supposed that is cheaper.

    Recently Powercolor made a contest of the worst 3dmark result, and the prices was a 3850 AGP. The winner was a ¿chilean? (some guy from chile)
     
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    The 7900GS/GT are good cards. I have a 7900GS myself, love it to bits and pieces :)
     
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