Best AGP Card for £250 budget?????

Well its pretty much going to be between the X1950pro of the 7800GS with 512Meg. According to this artcile the X1950 is the better AGP card than the 7800GS but they could not do a direct comparrison because at the time of writing the X1950 had not been released for AGP.

The gainward 7800GS availiable at www.overclockers.co.uk is apparently just as fast at the X1950 (has 7900 clock speeds), comes with 512MB and is bang on your budget, however apparently the performance of the two is very simliar and the 7800GS is a lot more expensive(£60+).

go with x1950pro since it has more pixel shader than 7800gs. most current games use lots of pixel shader.

don't concern too much with the memory it has. the important thing is the memory bit interface which is 256 bit for both x1950pro and 7800gs.

if the games needs more memory, it will take the rest from your random access memory. so the 256mb is good enough if you have enough ram in your system.

For the fastest AGP card look for a "Gainward 7800GS+". Notice the +. It is basically a 7900GT GPU stuck on a 7800GS.

That Gainward is a 512MB 7900GT but with slightly slower memory clocks. Either way, the Sapphire X1950 pro 512MB AGP will be an easy match for it. I think more often than not the X1950 pro will win out; just dpends on what game. Given it should be cheaper, has better IQ, and at least equal performance, the X1950 pro gets my vote.

That cant be right, what I think has happened is that the web site has got pixel pipelines andvertex shaders mixed up. I believe that the x1950 is supposed to have 36pixel shaders and 8vertex. There could not be at discrepency of 28pixel shaders between two x1950's, ATI specifies the number of pixel and vertex shaders each type of card (be it x1600 or x1900) must have.

A card with 8pixel shaders vs a card with 36 would get raped, thy would not be anywhere near the same class.

Donno. But Ive installed two sapphire cards in the past, and neither have had any problems- good brand. Gecube I can't vouch for.

Sapphire looks like a nice card.

Because the sapphire is a bargin!

Oh dear, i've just bought the Gainward 7800GS+, I can't be bothered to wait 19days, i'm desperate. Should still be a good card though. Also I play Doom3 and Quake4 like crazy and occording to the benchmarks the Gainward is slightly better. Im still happy should keep me going for another couple of years.