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I'm looking at one of these, but at £250 it's not exactly cheap. If it extends the use of my current setup by a year or two it might be worth it. What do you think?
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The pricing on those 7800gses is a bit over the top really, I know you need something for AGP but I got a PCI-E 7900gs for £130 from scan and its a far better card.
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This page has a good review of the card I mentioned above: http://www.custompc.co.uk/custompc/revi ... s-agp.html
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That there review wrote:Considering that the AGP GeForce 7800 GS is basically an insult on a PCB
Which is worrying. This card is actually a 7900 using bridging technology so it works with AGP. It all depends whether the rest of my system can make use of all the power.
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Lee wrote:The pricing on those 7800gses is a bit over the top really, I know you need something for AGP but I got a PCI-E 7900gs for £130 from scan and its a far better card.
the prices are high because the performance agp card is way a smaller market nowdays.

not to mention upgrading to PCI-E would certainly need a new motherboard, probably new ram and a shiny new cpu. so it makes it way cheaper to take it in the ass for the gpu than replace half of your machine.


either way, 7900 is better than 7800 by a long way. :)
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Post by Chickenz »

im currently using a dual agp/pci-e mobo which i got to tide me over until i got my 7800GTX many moons ago. Only cost 70 quid and allowed me to pick and choose wat i wanted to upgrade.
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That gainward is currently the best available at the moment (Why havn't other manufacturers done this?) but the price is just silly.

Though if you don't want ATI that and the 7800 gs I have are the only options

I still think the x1950 pro will be the better upgrade compared to the Gainward, it's just not out yet :x
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mrbobbins wrote:I still think the x1950 pro will be the better upgrade compared to the Gainward, it's just not out yet :x
How much is the x1950 likely to be?
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just under 200 quid.
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Dr. kitteny berk wrote:just under 200 quid.
That's a bit more reasonably priced. I'm glad I managed to resist buying that Gainward one today.
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spoodie wrote: That's a bit more reasonably priced. I'm glad I managed to resist buying that Gainward one today.
Yeah i thought about it but resisted and went for the cheaper mi-term option

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-004-GC
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Any idea when the X1950 Pro AGP cards are coming out. Google results say they are for sale, but overclockers have them on pre-order?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-069-HT
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Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:Any idea when the X1950 Pro AGP cards are coming out. Google results say they are for sale, but overclockers have them on pre-order?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-069-HT
I've seen them in stores here in Hong Kong, for what that's worth. I would, but I have a 7800GS already.
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Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:Any idea when the X1950 Pro AGP cards are coming out. Google results say they are for sale, but overclockers have them on pre-order?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-069-HT
You may have them now!, I'd go for the Sapphire over the GEcube,

GE Cube 256
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/119300

Sapphire 512
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/119956
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-137-SP

A Powercolor one is due which looks better as they have the nice Arctic cooling appendange

http://www.powercolor.com/global/main_p ... asp?id=137
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