Is this the fastest agp card now?

[happy medium]

Dear Joe Lomman,

The answer to both questions is yes.

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I was wondering if the Gainward video card model #{GX-032-GW} was really a 24 pipe AGP card with 512 megs of memory Also is it possible to ship to america?

 

[Overgloc]

OverPrice!! Get a Pci-e motherboard and a 7900gt and be done with it.

 

[happy medium]

So your saying to buy a new CPU, motherboard,ram,operating system {windows XP CD because of new motherboard,and most likley reformat the hard drive


MY system specs:
cpu- 3.45 pent 4 [fast enough for a while]
board- abit ic7 [overclocks easily]
1 gig pc3200 ram [enough for now]
120 gig hard drive full of sh1t [reformat or backup pain in the a$$]
windows xp
I had a ti4400 video card

Or just spend 400 bucks for this card and recieve an automatic 35% or more increase in games?
I'd take the card

 

[shabby]

You'll pay duty/taxes up the wazoo so it wont be worth it.
Stick with the 7800gs card or get a s478 mobo with pci-e, there are 2 asus boards and an albatron.

 

[happy medium]

Shabby your right. For me I'll just keep my overclocked 7800gs card, But for somebody with specs close to mine [cpu,ram,and such] just upgrade your card for now. Oh yea I can't find any of those motherboards anywhere. I found the specs for the albatron,and it's not compatable with a northwood cpu.

 

[JoeFahey]

Originally posted by: happy medium
So your saying to buy a new CPU, motherboard,ram,operating system {windows XP CD because of new motherboard,and most likley reformat the hard drive


MY system specs:
cpu- 3.45 pent 4 [fast enough for a while]
board- abit ic7 [overclocks easily]
1 gig pc3200 ram [enough for now]
120 gig hard drive full of sh1t [reformat or backup pain in the a$$]
windows xp
I had a ti4400 video card

Or just spend 400 bucks for this card and recieve an automatic 35% or more increase in games?
I'd take the card

You don't need to build a whole new rig to upgrade to PCI-e. Im sure you can find a mobo capatible with your CPU that has PCI-e. You are gonna end up doing it eventually I would assume, so why blow cash on a short term fix?

 

[shabby]

I have that mobo and a 3.0c northwood, it runs just fine. I was in the same situation like you and bought the albatron mobo rather then buying a new cpu/mobo/ram.
It currently sold on ebay for 152 bucks so its pretty rare but the demand is there. There is one online store that carries it for cheaper, but when you add shipping/western union fees it still comes out to around 140 bucks.

 

[happy medium]

I see both your points, but I don't like doing total rebuilds unless I absolutly have to. Just me I guess,but my experience with rebuilds are horrible, something always goes wrong. I avoid it.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

You need to be around your 20th build or so for things not to go wrong... doesnt even matter how much schooling you went through. Rebuilds save you money in the long run in your case as newer hardware support would be to an advantage. You can keep the hard drive/memory/cpu in most cases being there are lots of "upgrade" mobos that have pci-e and ones that support several types of processors.