Originally posted by: CaiNaM
that's just sad tho.. always liked gainward, and have owned several of their products in the past (still have my red pcb gf3). hated to see them dump north america![]()
Originally posted by: nitromullet
LOL, still pimping the $400+ AGP card, eh?
xe.com shows that 234.99 GBP = 441.276 USD
An alternate option to consider...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150144 (7900GT $233 AMIR)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569 ( ASUS A8N5X $75)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103622 (Athlon 64 3700+ $96.00)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146577 (2x512MB Crucail DDR 400 $119.99)
$440 for a new AGP card or $523 for a new PCIe video card, motherboard, cpu, and RAM...? Tough choice...
Serioulsy, it's time to drop AGP. You will be glad you spent the little bit extra to get a more upgradable platform. Just to be clear, I don't have any motive for suggesting this to the OP. It's his money, and I ultimately don't care how he spends it, I just don't think that recommeding a $400+ card to strap into an aging system is the most responsible recommendation at this point.
There on sale for 199.00 bgp with the link I gave him. Thats not bad for a7900gtx agp
Originally posted by: nitromullet
There on sale for 199.00 bgp with the link I gave him. Thats not bad for a7900gtx agp
199 + VAT = 234.99 GBP ($441.27 USD)...
Plus, this AGP card is still not equivalent to a GTX. Its stock clocks are slower by 200/250. I don't think that an OC of 200MHz on the core would be considered insignificant. Sure it's possible, but certainly not guaranteed... Just because it's got 512MB of RAM doesn't make it a GTX. Besides, the 7950GT is going to be upon us shortly, which also has 512MB of RAM, is clocked a bit lower than GTX (still faster then the GS+), and should sell for somewhere around $300-350.
...An eVGA GTX is now $399 USD ($375 AMIR) at newegg, so ~$400 for a car clocked about 30% slower isn't what I would consider "not bad"...
This isn't against you at all... I just really don't think the OP would be spending his money wisely to drop a $400 AGP card into an Athlon XP M 2600+ machine when he could upgrade the whole thing to a system with an Athlon64 3700+ for about $100-150 more. I didn't even try very hard to look for good deals, so I'm sure that he could do even better with a bit of effort.