Best card for agp?

[mafia_boy]

im thinking about upgrading my graphics card after xmas but i only have a mobo with agpx8, at the moment i am running an nvidia geforce 6200 256mb! its ok and bf2 runs alright but i am always striving to get better graphics as we all are im sure but i wanna know what all you guys think that i should go for? i dont want to spend a stack of cash for it but if its worth the price then i will, there are so many out there at the moment, different companies, mine is pny at the mo, can anyone point me in the right direction?........go!

[<DV8>mrbucket]

Re: Best card for agp?

Are you planning on switching motherboard's anytime soon? Cause if you are, I would wait until you can make a full hardware switch and save yourself some money. But if your not, I would recommend X850XT pe or 6800gs/gt. Both are bad*ss cards for AGP. Unfortunately AGP is dying, and will be obsolete in a year's time. The 850xt pe does not offer shader model 3 and the 6800 series does. SM3 is not widely used yet, but in a year every game will possibly use it.

[mafia_boy]

Re: Best card for agp?

yea gonna upgrade to pcie in the near future, just need 1 for the time being ya know, need more graphic power for bf2, dont get me wrong the card i have now is ok but i want more power/better graphics, i have got shader model 3 but it is only a 64 bit card.

[<DV8>mrbucket]

Re: Best card for agp?

Well I would recommend to you the X850XT pe. Just for the fact that the clock for core and memory are higher than the 6800's. I had a 6800gt and it burned, I was a little disgruntled, so I went with the 850 pro and it was very similar. Then AGP cards started disappearing, so I found the xtpe for 325.00 delivered and took it. I am very pleased with this card, oc's well and everything I run, it's always at high settings with really good FPS. If you want some screens, I'll post........