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Old 02-06-2008, 04:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Can anyone recommend a decent AGP card for les that £60?




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the ATI Radeon X1650 pro is a good card its around £45 - £55
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Depends what you mean by good.
That price range and AGP is in the realms of 'don't buy from a big retailer, because they will sell at cost price as it was 5 years ago'. Hence they just keep the stuff in stock and don't sell it at a loss, even though its years old. Check out Ebay instead, maybe. Lots of cheap AGPs going there, although maybe not quite so many that might be considered 'performance'

What kind of performance are you looking for? People stopped making AGP cards a while ago (except for a recent ATi, which will cost a lot more than that).
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if you can stretch your budget, this card is pretty much the best you can get for AGP until the 3850 comes out in AGP.
**B Grade** HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ3 V2 Turbo 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (AGP) - Retail (H1950P
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thats like the only agp card on that site
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they sell the 7800GS as well..but the X1950pro is loads better.
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Gecube HD 2600Pro 512MB GDDR2 128bit Dual DVI HDTV-Out AGP Graphics Card - Ebuyer

ASUS 7600GS SILENT 256MB DDR2 DVI VGA HDTV out AGP Graphics Card - Ebuyer

Sapphire X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 AGP TV Out Dual DVI : sap-950p5a
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