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Best AGP card for AGP 8x slot?

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  • Pentium
  • Graphics
  • Crysis
  • Hard Drives
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April 4, 2014 2:35:44 PM

Hi,
I'm looking to get a AGP card for my Pentium 4 based system. I have a 3.4 ghz Pentium 4, 2 gig of DDRI ram, and a 250 gig IDE harddisk. I'm looking to play Crysis and Crysis Warhead on this system (I know these games run pretty well on Pentium 4 as I've seen on YouTube).

Thank you, and please no 'build a new system' posts. I'm only interested in suggestions for AGP cards for the requirements I stated!

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April 4, 2014 2:45:39 PM

For decent cards for agp you will be fairly limited you could get something like a geforce 7800 AGP or a agp 3870 from radeon. They both are fairly decent cards but the 3870 bench marked better. Do you have a decent power supply for these cards?
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April 4, 2014 2:49:50 PM

I am not aware of any agp cards that will get playable rates in crysis (that are easily purchased). The best agp card you will be able to get your hands on now will be a geforce 6200 or radeon hd 3400. Neither of which will do much for crysis. This is what you could expect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPB9QJH4dtg
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April 4, 2014 2:51:18 PM

+1 forget crysis on a agp card
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April 4, 2014 2:59:31 PM

HairyAssBob said:
senkasaw said:
I am not aware of any agp cards that will get playable rates in crysis (that are easily purchased). The best agp card you will be able to get your hands on now will be a geforce 6200 or radeon hd 3400. Neither of which will do much for crysis. This is what you could expect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPB9QJH4dtg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlKckXmpYv0 on a Radeon 3850 AGP


Well, if you can find one, then get one of those :) 
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April 4, 2014 3:01:54 PM

HairyAssBob said:
senkasaw said:
Just found this one: http://www.amazon.com/HIS-Radeon-DL-DVI-Retail-H465F1GH...

that MAY get you playable frame rates on crysis.


Which is better, 3850 or 4670?


in modern games you will get relatively similar performance from them...but the 4670 uses less power. I would go with it for that reason.
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April 4, 2014 3:18:04 PM

HairyAssBob said:
senkasaw said:
crysis on the 4670: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_pxk55o5Yo


That is with a 2 core CPU, I posted a P4 based video!


I didn't see any videos with a p4 and 4670...not exactly a common cpu/gpu combo right now...
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April 4, 2014 4:31:04 PM

I know you didn't want advice on upgrading your pc but why not just get a micro atx motherboard, apu, and 4 gigs of ddr3? both of them will cost you around $110 for both if you get a simple dual core apu which will have better graphics than any AGP card I would assume. then you could get a couple of ide to sata converters. I know you want an agp card but the price to performance isn't really there. I just think that the money that you would spend on a card that is used, or that is new but has been kept in storage at a warehouse in who knows what condition. Like back in college my friend really wanted another 8800 for his system and he found one on amazon I think brand new. Now back in college the card was already out for like 3 or 4 years at that time. But the way the people stored the card was terrible it got exposed to a non climate controlled warehouse that I guess the company only used to store their really old stuff. But thanks to the way they stored it the card was dead in about 2 weeks. So you really have no way of telling how these older but still new components get stored and cared for over the years.
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April 4, 2014 7:25:00 PM

This is essentially a retro rig at this point so the best two despite the lacking driver support is the 3850 and 4670, for current support (limited) is a 7800 gs and a 7900 gt agp. All these cards are expensive for the return and is best to build a new system. For retro go here for Good help.

http://www.vogons.org/
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