Fastest AGP card

[Robbie G]

Decided to wait til Jan for my conroe upgrade for various quite obvious reasons, as such I will need a new AGP card to tide me over as my current one's fan has gone a.o.t. and it's slow anyway (9600 Pro)

What cards do you recommend and where can I get them? Many thanks in advance.

[maverick77_uk]

Oooooo....the choses!

From the raw power point of view, your 9600pro could kick out 1600 MTex/sec. It was shader model 2, with 4 pixel shaders and 2 vertex pipelines. If it only has to last you til Jan with the latest games, and I'm guessing you'll be wanting a PCI-E card come January, how about a NVidia 7300 GT? It won't break the bank, cost you between £40-60, kicks out 2400-4600 MTex/sec (depending on the clock of the one you get), so pretty much doubling your cards potential, supports shader model 3, with its 8 pixel shaders and 5 vertex pipelines? Will play Oblivion, FEAR and (hopefully!) NWN2 fine?

As to where to buy, all the usual suspects, Scan, microdirect, dabs, ebuyer, ccl etc. etc.

Here's one, on the slower end, but good value, AGP:

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...avigationKey=0

[teachmech]

As title said fastest then thats a

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=392225

512MbGainward7800GS+ Mem 1250MHz,GPU 450MHz, 24Pipes, D-Sub/DVI-I/S-Video/TVO (7900GT on 7800GS AGP)

but for such a short time something cheaper may be a better compromise, say a 7600GT

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=462642

256MB Leadtek 7600GT, AGP 4x/8x, Mem 1400 MHz, GPU 560 MHz, 12 Pipes, D-Sub/Dual Link DVI-I/HDTV

Hope this helps.

[kalniel]

Above post is spot on.

Also consider the AGP x1950pro which should come out soonish.

[cotswoldcs]

Spending £125 on a part that's only going to be used for 3-4 months max seems crazy - but then you might have more money than me to spend on computers!

Why not build a conroe rig now - what are you currently running?