did i make a mistake bidding on this gpu on ebay? plz help :(

No that is one of the better video cards that you can get for AGP. There are only maybe 2 or 3 better than the x1950pro that you are biding on (x1950xt/7950gt). Only possible problem would be your PSU. You need to have a decent PSU with good amount of AMPs on the 12V rail to support the x1950pro. What PSU do you have and what are the amps on the 12V rail?

Edit: The x1950pro agp models go from $150-$180 right now on Newegg.com, so I wouldn't spend too much more on it. Look here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] n+X1950PRO

You can cancel your bid.

This may be a better deal.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 814161068R

Unlikely the 256 vs 512mb is going to matter on that card.

OK CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO RETRACT MY BID(sry for caps..) the bidding is almost up please PLZ tell me how to retract my bid or i may have to cancel my credit card so i dont have to pay... and the seller is not responding to my messages... even though its been over a day..

so please how do i retract my bid

*OMFG thank you guys so much for telling me that i could do that, thankfully i am no longer bidding and now i have seriously seriously learned my lesson. My Jove that was sooooo stressful

I guess my ebay account is screwed up however since it shows i retracted my bid.. (however it is a good day and a half before end time so it shouldnt be a problem..)

*also is 420 watt ocz enough for a 7800GS ?? and someone mentioned the 7950 as an AGP card, does that mean it has 2 cores, because as far as i can remember having two 7950GTX was quad sli

*also i was wondering since iv already made a topic, could someone tell me where the information related to my paypal account is stored on my ebay account??

I've retracted 2 bids on 2 different items in the past 6 months. You just have to select a reason.
In my case it was on Anthlon64 cpu's.
Information the seller listed about item was incorrect.
There are other options also (or just come up with one). not recommended

here we go again...will you never learn?

of course you can retract your bids, everyone who has ever used ebay knows you can retract them. admittedly you have to have a good reason and its not just willy-nilly but of course you can retract them...

oh and no, its not fraud to retract your bid. in your scenario, the person was agreeing to pay that price anyway and remember if you bid 100$ on an item and you only need 50$ to win, ebay bids up to the highest price for you so in reality, you retract your bid and that person now has to pay less because the amount needed to win has been lowered.

*gets on loudspeaker*

"umm...can mrsbytch have a fact check on isle 3 please? fact check, isle 3? thank you"

Boo-Hoo Dishonest, is the sellers with their shill biding accounts, along with eBay allowing it and at the same time does nothing to protect buyers.

You'd be suprised... It won't make it a faster card but it does give you more headroom when it comes to AA and texture size - and of course, if your monitor blows up and you decide to treat yourself and get a newer, bigger one, you can run at native res easier without worrying about running out of VRAM.

Ahhh how old are you? You made a decision to bid on this item and you knew what you were getting yourself into when you did, so I would say that if you are the highest bid....be a man and suck it up and pay for the card.

Though doing this thing with bidding on your own auction strictly to see how high it will go is surely dishonest but not strictly against ebay rules, I do believe it's actually a criminal act. I'm not 100% on this so don't jump on me if I'm wrong, but I do know that making a bid is equivilent to signing a legal contract. As such, failure to comply with said bid allows the seller to sue you if you don't pay. But on the switch side, if a seller is making false bids to raise his own price, then retracts to the previous highest, I believe to not be prosecuted for accounting fraud of some sort he would have to disclose that A) he did this and B) allow any bidders to in turn retract their bids, otherwise it's discrimination of some sort, have to treat all bidders the same, you can't give yourself special treatment. It all has to do with that bids are legally binding. So in short, it being dishonest and could cause you to lose you're ebay account are the least of your worries, I'm about 99% certain it can land you in prison for 25 years.

Breech of contract is civil, which would be not paying for the bid, but placing bogus bids on your own auction can't be breech of contract because it's making contracts with yourself. I believe it's fraud, and fraud is criminal.

too be quite honest i retracted my bid because i want a warranty with my card so i will be buying an Nvidia BFG card instead because of the lifetime warranty.. also i just made that $80 up.. i had more than enough money to spend on that but didnt want to bother with ATI or a HIS card which supposedly goes bad a lot.. (so i have read)

also the seller wouldnt respond and i did not know if he would ship to Canada, and i asked him but he did not respond so in turn i canceled my bid and im sure there will be no ill effects of my doing so

*and someone said something about taking it like a man and paying it.. that is just stupid, i didnt want it so i did what i did and in turn there is no negative effect whatsoever..

True, but retracting a bid by itself isn't fraud, civil or criminal.

And civil fraud carries no criminal penalties, like jail time...