Need a good replacement card for games

[mobkon]

I have had an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB AGP card in my computer for the last 3+ years. Its now just starting to go bad, along with not being able to handle max graphics on the newest games. since my mobo can only take AGP video cards, whats a good new card thats out there that I can run max graphics, or real close to max graphics without any slowdowns? It needs to be AGP. Thanks!

 

[augest]

The 7950 GT from NVidia is a nice card or so I've heard. It's a 512 Card on a 4/8 base. 550 Core / 1200 Mem.

Runs around 200$.

I ran a 9800 Pro for along time. Nice card. Then went to a X850 XT PE. Now I'm only Nvidia.

 

[augest]

If you wanna stay with ATI, They make the X1650 Pro which is a 512 card as well. 4/8 Based with a core speed of 590 / 1380? Mem.

But only 12 pipelines, As the 7950GT has 24.

 

[WorldIndustries]

You can get a PCI-E board for relatively cheap, and then all PCI-e cards are cheaper than their AGP counterparts. Just something for you to consider. AGP cards are starting to get really expensive when you look at high-end cards.

 

[Phantom118]

I switched from AGP only about a month ago...
two good reasons to do that..

1. Cheaper
2. Better Preformance.

The best agp video card out now IMO is probably the X1950 Pro

 

[augest]

AGP is a dieing breed.

 

[gurusan]

if you must stay AGP here's another vote for the X1950pro

 

[Ridlyn]

X1950Pro

 

[TheEnd187]

the new king of agp is the gecube x1950xt, next to that is the x1950pro, followed by gainward7900gs+ GLH

personally i'd take the xt since its cheaper than the x1950 but the gecube is only 256 whereas the x1950 has 512/256.

 

[techsquad]

if you wanna get a card i would recomend you get more than 512 mbs of video card ram if your planning on keeping this for a while, New technology, more power...