BF2S Forums AGP Graphics Cards

Darth_Rambo wrote:

Has anybody got the new nVidia GeForce 7800 GS AGP card yet?

What is the best AGP card available now? I have an ATI 9700 Pro and want to upgrade to a newer
AGP card. I'm not ready for the full PC upgrade yet. I'm waiting on Direct X 10, Vistas, DDR2 memory, and Blu-Ray before doing a full upgrade.

An artical in this months Maximum PC says that AGP only goes up the the 6800 Ultra Family of video cards and I think a GS model. Where did you see a GeForce 7800 GS AGP model. Because I'm getting ready to upgrade to PCI-E So I can get 1 or 2 GTX 512's, or just the N7800 Dual GPU from ASUS ($800 btw).

Also, BFGtech.com is one of the manufacturers

yea theres loads of places u can pick up the 78 agp cards. fastest agp card out now

The GeForce 7800GS is likely to be the last high-end AGP card for a long, long time.  Intel has completely migrated over to PCI Express and AMD's processor is set to go through a socket change in 2006 (of which I am guessing that no AGP chipset will be made).  If plan on keeping your AGP card for another 2-3 years, get the card.  Otherwise, I say save $300 and wait it out for the new stuff.

GeForce 7800GS is made up of the failed 7800 GTX PCI-E chips. Instead of creating inferior PCI-E cards then put the chips on a AGP slot card. They are the same speed as the GTX but with 16 pipelines instead of 24 I think. They are a little worse than the x850 XT PE but slightly better than the x850 XT. Also because they are being manufactured they are hopefully going to go down in price over time which may put them cheaper than the x850 XT in time. Currently they are going for about $15 more retail than the x850 XT new on ebay.

I say if you want to upgrade your Video Card and you don't feel like having to get everything new to go to PCI-E then this is a good buy. Take advantage of it. Like they say it may be the last AGP card ever produced.