http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/1 [...] index.html

Detailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great - that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget.

Anybody had any luck finding a 2900 PRO?

Like These?

Overclockers have them as well.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/
Mactronix

Any chance the intel integrated chipsets are going onto the summary chart at the last page? (somewhere at the bottom)

My new office is in on the way, and I'd kind of like to know how bad the gma 3100 is if I were to suddenly pop a game onto it (hp dc7800 with Q35 chipset)

For AGP, why not also include the Visiontek's Radeon HD cards for AGP. You can get up to a 2600XT from them. Are they the only ones doing DirectX 10 in AGP?

When I was looking for AGOP cards I didn't find any 2600 XT's for sale yet, only 2600 PROs.

Depending on the price when they're available, I might recommend the AGP 2600 XT.

I'm kicking myself in the nuts for just buying an 8800 GTS 320 MB when I could of gotten 2600 PRO. Although I'm curious as to what people are getting for benches on the 2600 PRO and whether or not it does in fact out perform the 8800 GTS.

There are alot of benches out there, just Google them.

The short answer is that it outperforms the GTS 320 - especially at high resolutions. I wouldn't say it outperforms the GTX, although in a specific bench or two it might beat it.

|Personally id put the 2900pro down with teh gx2 and 1950xt, because i isnt quite up to 2900xt specs and u cant base that on OC'ing.

Im confused - 2600 or 2900?

I've only seen on NCIX (canada), the 2900PRO is way below (30$~) the 8800GTS 320MB, which is a steal!

I meant 2900. Can I get some links to some unbiased benches for these cards... I do acknowledge that "unbiased benches" is pretty much an oxy-moron.

Well, specwise they're identical in alot of ways: same numbers of unified shaders, 512-bit memory interface and 512mb of RAM.

Even though the clock speed is lower, testing shows them to be faster than the 8800 GTS 320MB which is on the same tier... so I think they're well placed where they are.

Valid enough reason for me.