Gainwards New King of AGP

[pauldh]

512MB 7800GT AGP? Here's the Inq link: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30502

It's about time. With 20 pipes and those clock speeds, It should beat out the X850XTpe and 256MB 16-pipe 7800GS's. But what's the street price gonna be?

 

[mitch074]

That's impressive - nice gift for an old rig. However, I'd like to know if they do the same for PCI-E... That's some serious speed being touted here, man.

 

[unbiased4u]

WTF??? It says a 7800GS...

 

[Hawkeye22]

WTF??? It says a 7800GS...

Try reading the whole article.

This card's magic is that it actually has G71, Geforce 7800 GT PCIe core bridged down to AGP.

 

[pauldh]

Probably not allowed by NV to name an AGP card "7800GT". But Kudo's to Gainward for releasing the AGP card that NV should have given us. Of course, if it's $400+ USD, then it still has little real value. That's what I am expecting, so while nice to see...who's gonna buy it? A 256MB 7800GT AGP for around $300 would be far more to cheer about. Then maybe ATI would give us a X1800XT 256MB AGP.

 

[FITCamaro]

WTF??? It says a 7800GS...

They're marketing it as a 7800GS because Nvidia doesn't offer a 7800GT in AGP flavor. But it has the PCI-E 7800GT core on the board with the bridge chip to convert PCI-E to AGP.

Damn thats a pretty sweet ass card though. Shows AGP isn't as dead as people think.

 

[dlantz]

Only shows AGP isn't dead if they actually produce them and sell them in any real quantity. Price will also be a major issue as if AGP upgrades cost $100 more than the PCI-e board, $100 mobo + pci-e = AGP. Sort of kills the value of not needing to upgrade. If they release a 7900 version at the same price point for AGP now, THEN we'll see AGP isn't dead. As of now I'd say it's at least comatose.

 

[cleeve]

Nice one Paul. I posted and realized you beat me to the punch.

Yep, IMHO this is the first viable over $300 AGP card I've seen in a long time... a full 20-pipeline 7800 for the AGP crowd. very nice stuff.

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Isn't there already a Radeon X1800 XT AGP available ?

I swear I've seen some, from Sapphire and the usual ATI vendors most likely. Maybe even GeCube.

 

[unbiased4u]

Oh ok, stupid me... :tongue: I usually just skim articles....I do read things if I'm truly interested. Because the thing is, I'm the type that is not willing to spend $200+ on a video card

 

[dlantz]

ATI cancelled plans to make an x1800 AGP card and to my knowledge there has never been such a card available. Quick google search also reveals no such card.

 

[Mach5Motorsport]

ATI cancelled plans to make an x1800 AGP card and to my knowledge there has never been such a card available. Quick google search also reveals no such card.

WOW! Kudos for Gainward bringing over a beast for AGP users!!!

ATi made a choice to leave the high end AGP market. Maybe Saphire will get the "itch" to bridge a X1800 or X1900 card.....naaaaaah

 

[MarkG]

Yep, IMHO this is the first viable over $300 AGP card I've seen in a long time... a full 20-pipeline 7800 for the AGP crowd. very nice stuff.

So you wouldn't pay $300 for a 7800GS, but you would pay $400 for a card that's 20% faster? How odd.

Admittedly it does have twice the video memory, but even current games will rarely benefit from that. Paying 33% more for 20% more performance seems like a bad deal to me.

 

[CompGeek]

Nice card but to be honest, going for it means wasting money.
AGP is a dead end . Instead of paying 300+ on a card that will be useless on most boards, you'd better get a new mobo on PCI e/CPU. And if you can find a mobo with both AGP and PCI then good for you otherwise you'll have to save for another gfx.

 

[MasterLee]

So you think that card won't do anyone with AGP any good ?
You may mean that it wouldn't do YOU any good. There is no good reason to build a new system now since nothing really new is coming until Sept or Oct. I have a 939 CPU sitting here in a box, no good reason to buy a new MB and PCI-E graphics card right now when AM2 won't work on it, and Conroe deserves a new motherboard when it's released.
By the way, that PCI-E/ AGP board is a piece of shit, how could you recommend that to anyone ?
Try Googling "How Do I Get a Clue ? "

 

[illicitsc]

how is a G71 a 7800gt core???? thats a 7900 scaled down to 20 pipes if im not mistaken, unless of course the author has a typo cuz i see both g71 and g70 very close togehter

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

DIE AGP DIE! :twisted:

 

[GeneticWeapon]

DIE AGP DIE! :twisted:

It can as far as I'm concerned, I wont be making anymore AGP purchases(as far as I know).

 

[MasterLee]

Yeah, the author says it has a G71 core then in the next sentence he says G70. In the photo the core reads 7800 GT.
If they release it I'll let you know, looks like a nice toy to crank on till Sept, then my 10 year old daughter gets this rig (she loves Quake 4).

 

[illicitsc]

lol its hard to imagine a 10 year old girl playing quake 4
o btw in quake 4 during the air trenches level the black dude just stops talking and blocks my path so i get stuck in the mission. when i open the console it has all these warnings with the ogm files. i tried google but no one else has this problem. anyone have any hunches?

 

[00maxse]

Whoa, that's pretty sweet. I wonder when it comes out? 8O

 

[mitch074]

Isn't it already out?

 

[alphakp295]

i thought gainward always has been the king of VGA in AGP w/ their golden sample series and expertool tuner.
too bad they've went down since 6800gt.
c'mon gainwad!! come back up and kill evga!!
oh.. never mind... evga has life time warranty...

 

[vulefu]

***The Gainward is king of the playground***

 

[mitch074]

They have a nice card for a niche market - hurray for those owners of Socket 754 mobos who wanted to replace their geforece FX 5200...