AGP is dead, long live AGP

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited January 2008 in Science & Tech
There are millions of enthusiasts across the planet who can't quite afford to make the leap to PCIe, and are locked perpetually in the hope that their platform will receive a few more breaths of life. Your hopes have been answered, it seems!

[figure]powercolor.jpg[/figure]Enter Powercolor, who has announced the coming of an AGP-based Radeon HD 3850 card. Those of you in the know will realize that this is AMD's top-of-the-line Radeon card, and should be quite a jump-start for those of you looking to invest in the meager beginnings of DX10 gaming.

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Holy wow.. that's a helluva card to put on AGP.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    PowerColor well sell many, many of those cards. There is a substantial market out there composed of people who enjoy gaming, wanting higher gaming performance, but who only want to upgrade their video capabilities and not the entire computer.
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    The new 38xx are more power efficient than the 2900's, but I sure hope someone doesn't slap one of these into too old of a machine...they may be in for a world of hurt :(
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    but I sure hope someone doesn't slap one of these into too old of a machine...they may be in for a world of hurt
    who only want to upgrade their video capabilities and not the entire computer
    Well, in that case, they will be upgrading the entire computer!
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    I thought I read somewhere that the current gen of video cards back a year or two ago could never saturate the bandwidth available on AGP 8X.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    It's not saturation. It's power draw.
  • jhenryjhenry California's Wine Country
    edited January 2008
    Couldn't you put a PCI-x power connector on the card? Most people running a system for that would have a high-power PSU already that would have it...
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