AGP Graphics Card Question

Post by **Pauly** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:23 am

Hey ho.

I currently have:

A Pentium 4 3ghz PC with 1gig Ram and a GeForce 5950 Ultra. The card is obviously quite old now and I was thinking of an upgrade. I think the PC itself, i.e the processor is fine, so I am thinking the upgrade will be the graphics card.

However, the problem is my motherboard does not support PCI express so the only option I have is an AGP card. From what I can see this means I am limited to the 6 series of card for Nvidia. Is this correct? If this is correct do you have recommendations for a card that will be a nice upgrade?

Thanks.

Post by **Pauly** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:34 am

OK thanks. I think I will go for that. Is it this one:

The top one
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/6800_Series.html

Post by **Pauly** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:38 am

Ah. According to Overclockers forums, a thread on the currecnt AGP situation reveals this:

7800 GS - Due early February and will be approx £230 - £250 Inc. VAT. (BFG & XFX available on launch)

Maybe I should wait?

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:39 am

Pauly wrote:Ah. According to Overclockers forums, a thread on the currecnt AGP situation reveals this:

7800 GS - Due early February and will be approx £230 - £250 Inc. VAT. (BFG & XFX available on launch)

Maybe I should wait?

Wait

Post by **Pauly** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:44 am

Right, I think I will.

Cheers.

Post by **Kills On Site** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:34 pm

I agree you should wait, and BFG is a great choice. They are the best overclockers.

Post by **Pauly** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:58 pm

OK I ordered the 7800 GS today and it should arrive tomorrow. It will be interesting to see what difference it makes.

Post by **DiscoDave** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:36 pm

Let us know the outcome, though I'm pretty sure you'll be very pleased with the purchase

Post by **Scarface** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:10 am

I bought a 6800GS 256mb AGP card not too long ago, very good card imo

edit: o/c extremely well too

Post by **Pauly** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:14 am

Well it arrived at 7.30am. Overclockers are so good with their deliveries, that's well under 24 hours.

Anyway, the card is excellent. Massive difference. I quickly played HL2 and there was no slowdown at all.

Post by **Underpants?** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:24 pm

pauly HL2 video stresstest (that what it's called?) results when you get a chance?