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AGP video card

RPM94 said:
I am trying to upgrade my Alienware and I currently have a Nvidia 6200 512MB video card right now and I want to know what is the best AGP card I can get, preferably nvidia or radeon
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A little more info please. What model mobo? What kind of AGP slot do you have and what can your system handle (AGP 2 - 4 - 8)?
 
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I think the highest chipset in "native" AGP Nvidia cards was the 7600gt series, anything above that is a PCIe chipset on a PCIe to AGP bridge, which is slower for many things than a native AGP chipset, so keep that in mind.

IMHO in an AGP only machine a 7 series NV graphics card is probably overkill anyways, I would save my money and upgrade the motherboard and go with something thats PCIe ready, it will probably cost less going that route anyways. I have built a full system with a 7 series PCIe card, motherboard, cpu, and ram for less than I paid for a 7 series AGP card (the AGPs go for premium money due to their rarity)
 
You also have to make sure you have enough power for the last generation AGP cards, a 400W power supply would be nice to have. The gaming AGP cards use a 4 pin HD type power plug, or a floppy drive connector. PCIE use a 6 pin power plug found on newer power supplies.
 
I have a Diamond Viper X1950 Pro 512MB which was supposed to be the best DirectX 9 AGP video card or something when I bought it in 2007-08. You really only need a DX9 card since you're using XP. The card started making my computer crash and act funny after a year, though. Not sure if the problem was the motherboard or the card. I'll have to test it out on another computer sometime. It'd be worth quite a bit if it works.

But like others have said, you'd be much better off buying a PCIe motherboard.
 
I hope you are not expecting to play the latest games on any AGP based machines.

Use the following charts to see how the older cards compare:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-recommendation-upgrade,2803-7.html

You will notice that 5900XT is slightly faster then the 6200 you installed to replace it.

I just got in an ATI HD 2600XT 512MB DDR3 AGP for my Athlon 64 3200+ gaming rig, cost me a total of $13.21 shipped from ebay in the original box (you can get lucky sometimes). I get a score of 9979 using 3dMark03 on that system which is decent (quiet too with that arctic dual slot massive heatsink and fan). To give a comparison my 7800 GTX PCIE 256Mb DDR3 card in a motherboard with an AMD 64 3000+ got something like 14,000 score in 3dbench03 (going by memory will have to verify).

I play old games like Doom3/Quake4 and stuff from that time period.
 
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