What AGP1 3D cards are still available?

luna1

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Sep 20, 2003
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Currently I have a soyo SY-6ba+IV motherboard that only supports agp 1. I can't afford to upgrade to a new mb now but would like something better then my current tnt2 card. The only agp cards I've found are only compatible to agp2 or higher. Can anyone help?
 

Aftermath

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Sep 2, 2003
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I'm pretty sure any AGP card you get (as long as your AGP port supports the appropriate voltage) will be backwards compatible with your 1x slot, it'll just lower the card to that amount of bandwidth. In other words, if you bought a 9800 Pro, it would run at 1x, not 8x, and you would probably take a hit in performance, though I'm not sure how much of a hit.

Keep in mind though, judging by your motherboard, the fastest CPU you could possibly have right now is 600MHz. That's going to be a huge bottlekneck on anything much faster than a TNT2 that you put into your system, so you likely wont see leaps and bounds in performance inprovements.
 

luna1

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I knew the cpu could be a limiting factor but at this point most new games I try won't load/run since they don't detect a 3d card. I originally thought the new agp4 cards should work with a agp 1 slot but all the boxes I've seen say they handle as only as low as agp 2. (for example the ATI 9600 or the chaintech ti4200).