AGP Roundup and benchmarks

[mrbobbins]

Toms Hardware review of the new AGP cards, will your aging CPU bottleneck any potential performance gains of a fast new AGP card?

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/01/10/ag ... index.html

The answer is... sometimes.

Enough to convice me at least that it's not worth it and to wait for a full system upgrade

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

Enough to convice me at least that it's not worth it and to wait for a full system upgrade

Booooooooo, I wanted to buy your old card off you

[spoodie]

I'm looking forward to when I get around to spending a couple of days surfing the online shops picking out the new innards for my PC. Obscene monies!

[mrbobbins]

Booooooooo, I wanted to buy your old card off you

Yeah I was very tempted, sorry, it wasn't just this article but a potential bonus of 10 frames at the most doesn't really justify another upgrade so soon.

You get one!

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

Well after reading that, it's down to these 3 cards for me, and the 1st Sapphire one looks like the best value for your money

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (AGP) : £152.74

HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ3 Turbo 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (AGP) : £146.86

HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ3 Turbo 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (AGP) : £187.99


It should massively outperform my current Galaxy Glacier 6800 128MB on my current system :

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Manufacturer:  	
Hewlett-Packard
Processor: 	
Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 	
2048MB RAM
Hard Drive: 	
36 GB
Video Card: 	
NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Monitor: 	
Dell 2405FPW (Digital)
Sound Card: 	
SoundMAX Digital Audio
Operating System: 	
Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2

[deject]

Yeah I'd say the Sapphire card is the winner from that group.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

seconded.

your machine shouldn't be too much of a bottleneck either. (especially if you ever get around to sorting the 2nd cpu)

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

(especially if you ever get around to sorting the 2nd cpu)

I looked into it that time, and it was going to cost about £150 quid to get that weird interface thing that allowed me to put the 2nd CPU into the motherboard. Besides, the second CPU now has a new home, allthough I do have a backup plan for another one

Oh yeah, the OS hard disk is a SCSI one, so my hard disk speed isn't a problem either, but the only drawback is that the houses at the end of my road can probably hear it when being accessed

I feel this is a good time to ask for donations from 5punkers towards costs of running 5punk

EDIT : Oh yeah, if anyone can find one of these for sale anywhere I would be grateful, as I'm buggered if I can "Powercolor X1950 PRO AGP"

[mrbobbins]

Yep Sapphire looks best

And again, here it is

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/119956

[mrbobbins]

The HIS ones are now in stock at Overclockers (as an exclusive, OCUK got all the current stock)

256mb - £146
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-071-HT

512mb - £188
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-069-HT

More expensive than the Sapphire 512mb, but...

The Sapphire is clocked at - 580MHz Core, 1400MHz Memory
These HIS ones are clocked at - 620MHz Core, 1480MHz Memory

[MIkkyo]

The HIS ones are now in stock at Overclockers (as an exclusive, OCUK got all the current stock)

256mb - £146
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-071-HT

512mb - £188
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-069-HT

More expensive than the Sapphire 512mb, but...

The Sapphire is clocked at - 580MHz Core, 1400MHz Memory
These HIS ones are clocked at - 620MHz Core, 1480MHz Memory

But can you milk them?

[Lee]

The Sapphire is clocked at - 580MHz Core, 1400MHz Memory
These HIS ones are clocked at - 620MHz Core, 1480MHz Memory

I doubt it'd be hard to overclock the sapphire one past the speed of the HIS one.

[mrbobbins]

But can you milk them?

I have nipples MIkkyo, could you milk me?

[mrbobbins]

I doubt it'd be hard to overclock the sapphire one past the speed of the HIS one.

True, but maybe the HIS ones (with the HUEG coolers) can be clocked a bit further too

[MIkkyo]

I have nipples MIkkyo, could you milk me?

You know I can, remember you told me to "Drink it all up theres a good boy, remember this is our little secret"

[mrbobbins]

You know I can, remember you told me to "Drink it all up theres a good boy, remember this is our little secret"

[deject]

From all the benchmarks I've seen, the overclocks on the HIS cards really don't do shit to actually get you more FPS. Definitely not worth the money.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

From all the benchmarks I've seen, the overclocks on the HIS cards really don't do shit to actually get you more FPS. Definitely not worth the money.

Conservative overclocks, usually on cards/chips that you can get an average (~10%) overclock out of with little risk or performance increase.

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

Hmmmm decisions decisions.

I'm really tempted by the HIS ones, as my current 6800 has an arctic cooling unit, and I have never not once had a problem with overheating.

I think the £££'s might do the talking though, as narf any of these cards would massively perform better than my 6800 128MB

Now the hard part, convinving my missus to let me spend money on PC stuff when there are more important things to spend it on like holidays to Miami and stuff

[MIkkyo]

I fancy the HIS one, just because it looks bum-fuck-you-got-a-purty-mouth good. I'll need a perspex side to my computer and a fancy light to show it off.