Back from the Dead (again) - World's Fastest AGP Card

[VinDSL]

Linkage: http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=AT-3850AGP&c=fr

Will AGP never die???

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: VinDSL

Will AGP never die???

No. I'm sure Foxconn with have an X58 / DDR / AGP board out shortly after the i7's hit the shelves.

 

[killster1]

u sure the 3850 is the fastest card? not that i really care..

 

[Ricochet]

Does anyone know whether there is Windows 98 driver support for this? Custom or beta drivers.

 

[Steve]

How quiet can this be made? Can the Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 be mounted on it?

ricochet, you might try omega drivers, but I doubt anyone's supporting 9x anymore.

 

[DamnRena]

rocochet, have u tried the omega drivers? google omega drivers for ati and try that.

 

[IlllI]

nobody supports windows 98 anymore. and why would you want a video card like this if you are going to use windows 98?

 

[Ricochet]

I have a machine with dual boot setup: Windows 98 SE and Windows XP. The upgrade is to benefit the gaming in XP. There are some really old softwares and a few games that only run well in 98.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: VinDSL
Linkage: http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=AT-3850AGP&c=fr

Will AGP never die???

if the 3850 is the fastest AGP, then its dead

 

[Denithor]

Sales of 3850 AGP must be fairly anemic or I expect we would see 4850 AGP.

It does appear that AGP is finally fading away.

EDIT: I wonder just how long PCIe will last? AGP had four generations (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x) and PCIe is already into its third revision (1.0, 1.1, 2.0) and I heard the fourth (3.0) is under development.

 

[ir0nw0lf]

This is what will blow you away and ask "Will PCI ever die:" Bestbuy sells a 8400 GS PCI card. Not PCI-e, not AGP, but PCI! LOL

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: ir0nw0lf
This is what will blow you away and ask "Will PCI ever die:" Bestbuy sells a 8400 GS PCI card. Not PCI-e, not AGP, but PCI! LOL

Yeah, but nearly every board has a PCI slot, so you could add a second video card to a computer without a second PCI-e x16 slot. (for extra monitors)

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: VinDSL

Will AGP never die???

No. I'm sure Foxconn with have an X58 / DDR / AGP board out shortly after the i7's hit the shelves.

:laugh: Actually I think it will be an ASRock.

 

[deepinya]

Originally posted by: ir0nw0lf
This is what will blow you away and ask "Will PCI ever die:" Bestbuy sells a 8400 GS PCI card. Not PCI-e, not AGP, but PCI! LOL

Everybody has a cheap PCI card laying around for troubleshooting!

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: ir0nw0lf
This is what will blow you away and ask "Will PCI ever die:" Bestbuy sells a 8400 GS PCI card. Not PCI-e, not AGP, but PCI! LOL

Damn, I guess I know now what the fastest available PCI card is, should anyone ask.

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: Steve

Originally posted by: ir0nw0lf
This is what will blow you away and ask "Will PCI ever die:" Bestbuy sells a 8400 GS PCI card. Not PCI-e, not AGP, but PCI! LOL

Damn, I guess I know now what the fastest available PCI card is, should anyone ask.

It looks like there's 8500GT PCI which is a little bit faster. The 8400 is 64 bit bus and the 8500 is 128 bit bus.

link comparison

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: esquared

Originally posted by: Steve

Originally posted by: ir0nw0lf
This is what will blow you away and ask "Will PCI ever die:" Bestbuy sells a 8400 GS PCI card. Not PCI-e, not AGP, but PCI! LOL

Damn, I guess I know now what the fastest available PCI card is, should anyone ask.

It looks like there's 8500GT PCI which is a little bit faster. The 8400 is 64 bit bus and the 8500 is 128 bit bus.

link comparison

Well I'll be damned. I figured after the 6200 PCI and the X1300 they were calling it a day.

 

[bearxor]

Does this thing have VESA drivers for DOS? I'm looking for a slight upgrade for my Riva 128. I have me some ROTT to play!

 

[newbieKC]

Will I be able to play blu ray and downloaded 1080p content if I pair this video card with my old agp system, which is AMD Athlon 64 3000, Nforce 3 motherboard, and 1 GB DDR400 memory? It will be used mainly as a HTPC. Will any of the current gen games work in this setup? Or is the CPU, motherboard, and memory way too weak?

 

[Gustavus]

Steve,

The quote at the bottom of your posts is an order of magnitude off. The area of Texas is 268,601 square miles. A square mile is 640 acres. so the area of Texas is 171,904,640 acres. The bureau of the census clock shows the current earth population to be 6,735,383,911 people. Dividing that by four to make "four person families" results in 1,683,845,978 "families". That works out to almost exactly 1/10 acre (.1021) per family. So each family of four would have a 66x66 foot square of Texas to stand on.

And it is shrinking -- fast!

 

[goobee]

66 square feet still sounds better than what my tract home sits on.

 

[Ricochet]

Gustavus, that post was to illustrate what an idiot budafied was for making that claim.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: Denithor
Sales of 3850 AGP must be fairly anemic or I expect we would see 4850 AGP.

It does appear that AGP is finally fading away.

EDIT: I wonder just how long PCIe will last? AGP had four generations (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x) and PCIe is already into its third revision (1.0, 1.1, 2.0) and I heard the fourth (3.0) is under development.

Yeah, but PCIe is ahead of the curve. I don't think most graphics cards fully utilize even PCIe 1.0.

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: ricochet
Gustavus, that post was to illustrate what an idiot budafied was for making that claim.

THANK YOU!!!!!

 

[SonicIce]

Originally posted by: newbieKC
Will I be able to play blu ray and downloaded 1080p content if I pair this video card with my old agp system, which is AMD Athlon 64 3000, Nforce 3 motherboard, and 1 GB DDR400 memory? It will be used mainly as a HTPC. Will any of the current gen games work in this setup? Or is the CPU, motherboard, and memory way too weak?

uh im not sure. 1080p still uses alot of cpu. 720p for sure though.