Agp Card Upgrade

[JK949]

My roomate and I put together a rig from spare parts for his son's birthday.
It has a 128 meg Radeon 9800 Pro card in agp. Being that ATI and Nvidia
both have caved in to the agp market demands and both have competent
agp cards now, I would like to get opinions on what to buy as an upgrade
for a 14 year old with 0 money. There is an X1300 256 MEG Visiontek
on sale today at Comp Usa for $129.00 retail. Will it perform better than
the old 9800 Pro ? Core and memory speeds are twice that of the 9800
and it uses DDR2 memory. I obviously can't to find any comparisons of
the two cards so I need your help.

 

[JBT]

The 9800 pro is still faster. It has 256bit memory. DDRII doesn't mean its faster either. It can clock highier but again its not 256bit its only 128 so in real world terms its going to be about half the performance in memory related tasks.

Aslo I doubt the X1300 is an 8 pipe card I don't really have any idea but either way im almost positive its slower than the 9800 pro.

 

[TheRyuu]

I'm pretty sure the best "bang for buck" card for agp has been the 6600GT.

I'm also pretty sure your 9800 Pro will perform better than the X1300.

 

[JK949]

Ok. Thanks for the feedback. I 'll wait for a sale another sale to pop up
I have to but store retail on this one. No web shopping otherwise
I could get some great deals. What would you recomend
upgrading to for less than $200 ?

 

[tennisflip]

Chiefvalue had a 6800gs for only $199/w free shipping... but I think the price has just increased. I believe you can find an AGP 6800gs OC with a mail in rebate that comes out to around $200.

 

[TheRyuu]

At new egg, theirs a 6800GS for $230.

It's a little higher than the $200 though.

What does he want to play.

 

[JK949]

Thanks again. I'll keep looking.

 

[Wreckage]

Check your local Compusa to see if they still have the PNY 6600GT in stock
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=317665&pfp=BROWSE

$99 is a very good price for a really nice card.

 

[jonesthewine]

I have an eVGA 6800GT AGP with an Arctic Cooling NV5 heatsink that I'll sell for $200, which includes shipping. Let me know if you're interested.