Best AGP Card...

[FifthFreedom]

Lo,

I'm looking for a good AGP card for an old PC.

Which is the best card out right now?

Can anyone link me to benchmarks with modern games? e.g. Gears of War or Halo 2

Thanks.

[peterb]

How do you define best? What are the criteria for selection?

[Thorsson]

Well the best I could find at Scan was this http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=796713 although it's out of stock. This was in but a lot more expensive http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=789615

May be able to find one in stock at the lower price level if you search around. Not sure that I'd spend £100 on an AGP card though.

[FifthFreedom]

Best performance in current games i what I'm after.

I have this ****ty system which a family member wants to play all games that are out so far. Obviously not crysis and Medium GFX at a low res is fine for everything else.

Will the HD850 do the trick?

Any benchmarks about?

Google didn't produce many trusted sites for me.

[Thorsson]

3850 is at the bottom of the midrange (now that new cards are being released).

AGP cards now cost more than their PCI-E equivalent. There's no announced AGP card from the latest ATI GPUs, and NVidia don't have one from the last batch. AGP is close to dead.

IMO you're unlikely to get anything better than a 3850 ever.

[Jay]

is the 3850 full DX10 though?

[Thorsson]

You're havin' a laff. He's hardly going to be running Vista on an AGP machine.

[jackvdbuk]

you might want to note the other pc components, its not all about about the grpahics card ya know

surely an old spec pc would bottleneck a 3850 ATi card?

[Blitzen]

I had a Gainward Bliss 7800GS+ in one of my old AGP rigs and thing absolutely flew.

It played Oblivion at medium settings anyway

It was bloody expensive though. Especially to put in a rig just for the little 'uns.

[kalniel]

is the 3850 full DX10 though?

Yes absolutely. It's a stonking card for AGP and will run pretty much any modern game very well, as long as you don't jack up the resolution/AA etc.

[FifthFreedom]

The system is packing a AMD Athlon 2800+ and 2 Gig of RAM so I think I may give the HS 3850 a shot.

Thanks guys.

[SiM]

TBH its time you sell up and upgrade... any more money you pump into that system will become dead money and you are unlikely to get good resale value...

[FifthFreedom]

I'm not looking for resale value.

I never sell any of my old systems, I run them into the ground then drive em down the tip ^^

It won't be worth jack even if I sold it now.