What is the best graphics card you can get with an AGP card?

Question

My PC is a Dell Dimension 8300...
I was looking at the ATI Radeon x1650 Pro AGP
Also, is the card you choose good enough to run the majority of today's top games?
thanks.

Answer 1

Your video card is rated 30.8 FRAPS which will play most games at full settings but will probably not play the most extreme games at full settings.



FRAPS: refer to:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

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My opinion for a new video card:

For playing the latest most extreme games a FRAPS (frames per second) of 50 or higher

For moderate games a FRAPS of 30 or more.

For no games a FRAPS of 18 or more

Refer to:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html



Ratings are for a PCI x16 card installed on a computer similar to the test machine.

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Other options



XFX PVT73AUDF3 GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card - $109.99

FRAPS = 40.9 (rated 5 stars)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150233





XFX PVT71KUDF3 GeForce 7900GS 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail- $149.99

FRAPS = 52.2 (only rated 4 stars)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150174



XFX PVT71AYDF3 GeForce 7950GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card - $214.99

FRAPS = 71.8 (only rated 4 stars)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150223

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Higher performance cards require more current from the 12 volt leg of the power supply that supplies the video card. This may require changing to a more powerful power supply. Determine the amps at 12 Volts the video card recommends and compare it to your existing power supply.



If you need to buy both a power supply and the video card which could run $150 to $300, I would be tempted to bite the bullet and just build a new computer.



How to Buy a Power Supply

http://www.wikihow.com/Buy-a-Power-Supply



Nvidia SLI Certified Power Supplies

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html



ATI Radeon Crossfire Certified Power Supplies

http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/buildyourown2.html



Diamond Video Cards Certified Power Supplies

http://www.diamondmm.com/certified.php

Answer 2

The X16xx's are pretty bad, check tom's hardware. I jsut purchased an x1950 PRO for AGP. It was alittle more expensive for the AGP, but i wasn;t ready to upgrade my entire system yet. Check newegg.com for the best prices. There is also an x1950 XT(X? i don;t remember) for AGP.



AS for the games..



I have an AMD Athlon X2 4800 2.4GHz

2 GB Corsair XMS DDR 400

and the x1950 PRO



I can play Oblivion at 1280x1024 at decent FPS 25 at the least up to 75 cap



I just got BioShock and it plays nice and smooth never less than 20 FPS, and usually more the 30 again at 1280x1024.



Both of these are at max setting (except i took off HDR in oblivion i thought it looked bad)



They do make an HD2600 for AGP, for pretty cheap, but the performance of the x1950 was better. The advantage is that the HD2600 supports DX 10

Answer 3

i might bypass with the Radeon HD 4650 1GB I related to under it would help an getting old AGP gadget nonetheless play some no longer so present day video games. the cardboard i'm linking you to expenditures seventy 4$ USD, and that's a good purchase extra value-effective than identifying to purchase a sparkling motherboard, cpu, ram and video card. while you're no longer on the reducing fringe of gaming playing the main up-tp-date video games this card will serve you nicely. the guy asserting AGP is the worst is definitely especially incorrect. time-honored PCI has a maximum information throughput of 132 MB/s that's a good purchase slower than AGP 8X's 2,a hundred MB/s. PCI-E 16X has a max of 4000 MB/s (8000 MB/s going the two guidelines). AGP isn't a bad slot that is getting old yet once you do no longer desire to finished out replace your total computer an AGP card remains a good decision. desire I helped you some. Ryan

Answer 4

the best u can get is probably this

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