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Which AGP video card is the best bet for a reasonable price?

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bb1   06-08-2006 at 09:37:58 PM

I am looking to upgrade a ATI 9550 video card. I would like to do it without spending more than $130. I see that in that price range at Newegg there are X1600PRO, X 1300Pro, X700, 6800, 6800GT.

Which one is the best value for the money? Are any of them overly crippled? How much difference daoes the amount of video memory make, would i notice a difference between a 128, 256, or 512mb card?

I run Halflife 2, Madden on the computer occasionaly. I do play with overclocking some, but with this it will be within the limit of the stock cooler.


Computer specs:
P4 2.53 Ghz
768mb RAM (2100)
350W PSU

Radeon 9250 PCI - 2nd video card for 2nd monitor, CRT
Could I run the second monitor off of a adapter on a DVI port?

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Cleeve   06-08-2006 at 09:49:23 PM
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I can't find a $130 6800 GT on newegg, but if you can that's the best card available at that price.

I think pretty much all the info you're looking for is in the 'Best videocard for the money' sticky at the top of this forum. I'd give it a look.

The short answer is, in the price range you're listing for AGP, the best card you're probably going to get is an X1600 PRO or 6600 GT

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prozac26   06-08-2006 at 10:03:35 PM
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X800GTO might be below $130.

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Scougs   06-08-2006 at 10:33:01 PM
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If you don't mind waiting for a rebate, you can get an X800GTO for about $130: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102609

I have this card and am pretty happy with it. I was able to unlock 4 extra pixel pipelines for a total of 16. Unlocking the pipes makes it equivelant to having an X800XL. I can run CS:S at 1600x1200 and I think I can run BF2 at 1600x1200 with medium textures (only 1GB of system RAM) and high everything else. I haven't tryed it at that resolution in BF2 much yet. I'm running a Pentium 4 2.8C @ 3.5GHz.

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bb1   06-08-2006 at 11:54:59 PM
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What are the difference between an X800GTO and a X1600Pro? I am rather confused on which is better. Which one would give btter performance?

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soeddy   06-09-2006 at 12:36:35 AM
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Buy the 6600GT, 6800GT or x1600Pro because there u got HDR( High Dinamic Range) feature and u can take full advantage of dx9.

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soeddy   06-09-2006 at 12:37:10 AM
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Buy the 6600GT, 6800GT or x1600Pro because there u got HDR( High Dinamic Range) feature and u can take full advantage of dx9.

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Scougs   06-09-2006 at 12:52:33 AM
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What are the difference between an X800GTO and a X1600Pro? I am rather confused on which is better. Which one would give btter performance?



The X800GTO will be faster than the X1600Pro. The X1600Pro has newer features like SM3 but from what I have heard it isn't really fast enough to use it very well. Right now only a few games use SM3. If you play HL2 or CS:S or BF2, I don't think any of those games use SM3 or the newer HDR. The X800GTO will do the HDR that is used in HL2/CS:S.

You probably aren't expecting your AGP system to last too many more years as a gaming system so you might not care about SM3.

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