x1950 pro

[Rottie]

is it too old already? will there be HD 2900 for AGP in the future?

 

[QueBert]

too old? no, can't say how the card will run a game like Crysis, but it runs Bioshock with everything maxed on my GF's 3200+ Sepron w 2 gigs of memory fast as hell. The game doesn't natively support AA, so I can't comment on performance with AA enabled. But, for the price it's a great card. She got it for $200 off the Egg, 512 meg version.

I haven't seen any word to verify, but I'm sure there will be a 2900 aAGP card somewhere down the road.

 

[Mallet]

my 1950pro 256MB plays crysis on medium settings @ 1152x864 at playable framerates 40-60 outdoors, 60 plus indoors. on High settings @ 1024x768 outdoors is 18fps to 25, and indoors 30 to 35 fps, not very playable.

Rest of my rig:
E6600
Asrock 775dual-vsta
2 gig kingston DDR2
x1950pro
XP SP2

 

[Inspector Jihad]

i wish there were some high end cards coming out for agp...but i dont think so.

 

[Makaveli]

I have Bioshock and a Opteron 170 @ 2.75 Ghz and a X1950Pro 512mb and I can't even run Bioshock with everything maxed.

How are you able to do that Quebert?

 

[gpse]

I have a x1950 PRO PCI-E card and it's pretty decent, I wont be upgrading for a while.
I play bioshock max settings at 1280X1024 no problems, and most games I can play at very high settings. I would highly recommended this card to anyone.

Intel P965, Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.40Ghz)
2GB DDR2 @ 800mhz
SB X-Fi XtremeGamer
Vista 32-bit

 

[Rottie]

I post this because I was at Fry's store yesterday just to look around and saw several AGP cards for HD 2400 with OC (by Visiontek) and HD 2600 pro and XT...I don't see anymore X1950 Pro cards I thought it was old card now.

 

[alcoholbob]

The average with a Q6600 and an 8800GTS is about mid 30fps at 1600x1200 max settings...maybe QueBert's gf is running it at 800x600.

[green font] Also I heard a theory in the Bioshock forums that if you have hardware that is equal/similar to an Xboxs, like an Athlon 2800+ with a 8500GT video card, you can get blazing fast performance with max settings [/green font]

My 4400+ and 7800 OCed GT can run about 20fps at 1024x768 max settings. At 1280x1024 it sort of becomes a slide show.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Astrallite
The average with a Q6600 and an 8800GTS is about mid 30fps at 1600x1200 max settings...maybe QueBert's gf is running it at 800x600.

[green font] Also I heard a theory in the Bioshock forums that if you have hardware that is equal/similar to an Xboxs, like an Athlon 2800+ with a 8500GT video card, you can get blazing fast performance with max settings [/green font]

My 4400+ and 7800 OCed GT can run about 20fps at 1024x768 max settings. At 1280x1024 it sort of becomes a slide show.

I can't give a FPS, but the game is butter smooth at the highest resolution settings her monitor will support (22" LCD) My eyes tell me it's well over 30fps, never notice any slow down in the game. Stranglehold runs sweet too, although I'm not sure how demanding the game is, good graphics so I'd imagine it requires a fair amount of GPU juice.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: Astrallite
The average with a Q6600 and an 8800GTS is about mid 30fps at 1600x1200 max settings...maybe QueBert's gf is running it at 800x600.

[green font] Also I heard a theory in the Bioshock forums that if you have hardware that is equal/similar to an Xboxs, like an Athlon 2800+ with a 8500GT video card, you can get blazing fast performance with max settings [/green font]

My 4400+ and 7800 OCed GT can run about 20fps at 1024x768 max settings. At 1280x1024 it sort of becomes a slide show.

Actually it's much higher than that with a 8800gts. 1600x1200

Xbox has a much higher specs than athlon 2800+ with 8500gt. It's more in the lines of athlon x3 with a 8600gts.

My 8600 overclocked gts can run 50fps @ 1024x768 max settings. At 1280x1024 about 35-40fps.

Originally posted by: QueBert
I can't give a FPS, but the game is butter smooth at the highest resolution settings her monitor will support (22" LCD) My eyes tell me it's well over 30fps, never notice any slow down in the game. Stranglehold runs sweet too, although I'm not sure how demanding the game is, good graphics so I'd imagine it requires a fair amount of GPU juice.

@ 1680x1050 a 1950pro can't play bioshock @ max settings. 30fps is definitely not playable unless if you like your games dipping into the teens. http://firingsquad.com/hardwar.../images/bshock1600.gif

 

[nemesismk2]

I've ran a Sapphire Radeon x1950 Pro 512mb AGP with a Socket A and it ran Bioshock okay:-

Sempron 2200

LOW QUALITY 1024x768 SETTINGS = 34fps
MEDIUM QUALITY 1280x1024 SETTINGS = 30fps
HIGH QUALITY 1600x1200 SETTINGS = 20fps

Athlon XP 2500

LOW QUALITY SETTINGS 1024x768 = 50fps
MEDIUM QUALITY SETTINGS 1280x1024 = 35fps
HIGH QUALITY SETTINGS 1600x1200 = 28fps

Now World in Conflict (approx 29fps low quality at 1600x1200) is a game which finally killed off my Socket A processors when using medium and high quality at any resolution lol 😉

I was surprised by the performance I got from my Athlon XP 2500 just by using a x1950 Pro, my 3dmark scores are:-

3dmark 2003 - 13322
3dmark 2005 - 6252
3dmark 2006 - 3858

😉

 

[Schadenfroh]

I use a x1950 pro 512mb agp, no problems with LotRO or NWN2 (most graphically intense games that I play) at 1600x1200 with high details (shadows and FSAA disabled though).