Great News for the AGP Gamer: X1950PRO AGP!

**Regeneration** · 21 October 2006, 09:40

In case you missed our interview with PowerColor’s Raymen Wu yesterday, we have some great news for all the AGP fans out there. (Actually, we do have good news from time to time but you people always seem to be surprised! Maybe it’s time for you to put us in your Favorites. Hint, hint.)

Anyway, Raymen confirmed to us in the interview that PowerColor will be introducing an AGP version of X1950PRO very soon. Yes! Finally there’s a high-end solution from ATI to the AGP market.

Quote:

Eran: How long are you planning to continue support for AGP architecture?
Raymen: AGP will be around for quite some time yet. In fact, PowerColor will be introducing AGP versions of X1650 and X1950 PRO very soon. There are still a lot of people that have systems that work perfectly fine and simply require a slight upgrade for their graphics.

The current AGP king is the Nvidia 7800GS -- but it’s priced from $250-300. The X1950PRO should be much faster than the 7800GS, but the price for the AGP version is still unknown. Anyway, we believe that the X1950PRO AGP will gain a lot of success due to the current generally poor offerings.

On another note, we also heard that Nvidia is very unhappy with the latest X1950PRO launch and are already working on a response (7950GS anyone?). Now we are even more confident that Nvidia will make an AGP version of it as well.

Update:
Here's a picture of this card.

Dyre Straits · 21 October 2006, 10:00

I keep hearing the death knell for AGP....but, it's dying a very slow death.

nCaine · 21 October 2006, 10:16

Ok got lil question , what CPU shuld be suficient for that X1950 Pro ??

Shadow Lady · 21 October 2006, 17:10

so good to see agp not death yet, heh, i remember as soon as pci-e came everyone saying agp was lost already since no more agp cards would come, well that show 'em lol

nCaine · 21 October 2006, 17:13

Guys i wanna get that card when it hit the market but dont know if it have any sense without upgrading my CPU/MOBO.

????

Shadow Lady · 21 October 2006, 17:15

well... most games nowadays use a good RAM+CPU+GPU combo, so in my oppinion you should upgrade ur cpu/mobo if u wanna use all the power of that card, of course sometimes is nice to use highest Resolution/AA knowing you will not lose any performance since ur CPU will be the bottleneck

ur CPU is basically same as mine, and your cpu/gpu combination right now is great, so going new GPU? u should better get some better CPU/mobo right away, and going new CPU/mobo u could go for a PCI-E anyway :P GPUs are cheaper for it :P

nCaine · 21 October 2006, 17:32

THX Shadow , one more question. What about mobos with both PCIE/AGP slots ?? Are they any use , or shuld i just get normal PCIE.
I ask this cos i wont have budget to get all three part at one time mobo/cpu/gpu.

gen.Rage1991hrv · 21 October 2006, 17:56

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Originally Posted by nCaine

THX Shadow , one more question. What about mobos with both PCIE/AGP slots ?? Are they any use , or shuld i just get normal PCIE.
I ask this cos i wont have budget to get all three part at one time mobo/cpu/gpu.

ncain try to get normal mbo with PCIE

i have one with dual grafics and it stinks (now is ded mbo)
p.s.dont buy mbo with VIA 880 chip

Basty · 21 October 2006, 19:00

wtf!? i just brought secondhand 7600GT agp for 150$ ... 4 days ...

Dyre Straits · 21 October 2006, 19:14

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Originally Posted by gen.Rage1991hrv

ncain try to get normal mbo with PCIE

i have one with dual grafics and it stinks (now is ded mbo)
p.s.dont buy mbo with VIA 880 chip

I'd go so far as to say not to get a mobo with VIA, period. I've had nothing but headaches with VIA-based boards in the past and won't even consider them any more for myself.