Your advice on which agp 4x card please?

[John Wilson]

I will be purchasing a video card soon. I am going with an AGP it I need 4x.
Here are the three I am looking at:

1) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814153012

2) http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustRatingReview.asp?Item=N82E16814103159

3) http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustRatingReview.asp?Item=N82E16814123150

I am a little worried about the first one because I know nothing about the
company. Is there anything else I should think about before I buy one of
these cards? Do you know of any better under $150?


My MOBO: http://www.baber.com/baber/411/asus_p4s533-mx.htm

 

[John Wilson]

Now if I could just find one of these. Newegg is sold out. It is about $25
more than what I originally stated, but it is obviously worth it.

SAPPHIRE 100136 Radeon X800GT 256MB 256-BIT GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card

 

[John Wilson]

SAPPHIRE 100136 Radeon X800GT 256MB 256-BIT GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card

Oops. I just noticed it was DDR3. I guess that is why it is so cheap.

 

[Boba & Ilinka]

The computer is mor then 4 years old, perheps it's time to buy a new one?!

boba Vankufer BC

 

[kony]

I will be purchasing a video card soon. I am going with an AGP it I need 4x.
Here are the three I am looking at:

1) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814153012

2) http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustRatingReview.asp?Item=N82E16814103159

3) http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustRatingReview.asp?Item=N82E16814123150

I am a little worried about the first one because I know nothing about the
company. Is there anything else I should think about before I buy one of
these cards? Do you know of any better under $150?


My MOBO: http://www.baber.com/baber/411/asus_p4s533-mx.htm

The first one is the only reasonably priced... it's
outrageous to pay over $100 for a 9600XT.

Do you really need that though? I mean, you can probably
run an 8X card and unlike your other post suggests, there's
no problem with the memory, it is only on the card, no
motherboard requirement for it.

Define the budget range and then it's easier to figure out
what's best within that range. Also you made no mention of
the needs/uses of this card... 9600XT will play now-aging
games fine but if you're trying for a card to play new and
furture games you'll be disappointed soon enough, but then
your motherboard CPU limitation is yet another bottleneck.

If the budget can go up to $120 or so, look around for a
6600GT for best gaming card. If no gaming, just get
something far cheaper like a Radeon 9200.

 

[John Wilson]

Do you really need that though? I mean, you can probably
run an 8X card and unlike your other post suggests, there's
no problem with the memory, it is only on the card, no
motherboard requirement for it.

So then the memory specs on the cards being 256mb are just to compensate for
people who don't have enough ram installed in their comp? I have 1gig of
ram.

Thanks.

 

[kony]

So then the memory specs on the cards being 256mb are just to compensate for
people who don't have enough ram installed in their comp? I have 1gig of
ram.

No I didn't mean anything like that, you discounted one card
by writing "DDR3".

There's not a lot of point in 256MB on a 9600XT though,
because the video card and CPU will be too much of a
bottleneck for most games that use more than 128MB. If the
extra memory is almost *free* (little to no extra cost),
then it's more worthwhile to consider.