Best AGP video card today?

Question

Please whatever you do, dont tell me to get PCI-E. I dont have the money to buy a motherboard and than other things.

So what would be the best card (make $250 and under) that will be able to run future games like Bioshock or Gears of war at around meduim or low settings? Also would I have to upgrade my memory. I have a gig now.

I like the 7600GT?

Answer 1

The NVidia 7800 AGP cards.

I heard they were planning to release 8600 and 8800 in AGP, but dunno if they really did or not.

Answer 2

I need more inforation to answer this question. Do yu know what type of Motherboard you have? Assuming you have a M.B. (Motherboard) The accepts a 8X AGP card, and a P4 (or AMD equivilant) You are most likely will be looking for DDR 400 MHz RAM (2x1GB chips to mkae it 2GB total system memory this is fastest ram available for your system and ram speed plays a big part in good graphics) and a Geforce 7950 for your Video card. I have included links to both for very good prices on tigerdirect. The geforce is about $10 or $15 over what u wanted to spend but it is worth the extra money, when it comes to graphics you do not want to be penny wise pound follish. but also think of this, If you want to run future games you might not want to invest too much money into an agp card, the newer pci-E and Dual core processors are going to be an important part of being able to run newer games. more or less you have out dated technology, and while you might be able to run most games that come oout wihtin the next year, dont expect to run too much beyond that with an older setup. not efficently anyway, And when it comes to game play, having it pause, or lag as they say is no good, thats how u miss out on action and get fragged.(killed)

Link to Geforce http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3013023&CatId=2234


Link to Memory

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2968496&CatId=1043



PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY PURCHASE MAKE SURE THAT THESE PARTS ARE COMPATABLE WIHT YOUR SYSTEM.

To answer your main question the Geforce 7950 is the highest end AGP card you can buy Hands down. Some might argue an ATI card is better or more so a better value (they are a lot cheaper, but you get what you pay for) but in the end the whole ATI or Geforce thing is like pepsi or coke, everyone has thier own opinion.


ALso Just to let you know, You can find dirt cheap Dual core (core 2 duo) or amd boards memory and processors that you can upgrade to very cheaply . Tiger direct (i use them for most of my pc buys because they are just so cheap and never have a problem if i need to return something) has barebone systems with cpu, memory, hard drive, case and power supply for as little as 300 , thats only 50 more then you are willing to spend on your video card.

i know i went off on a coupleof tangents here but i hope you were able to follow and found it helpful

Answer 3

to play bioshock, u would need a whole new computer. gears of war wont run good on an aging agp graphics card. he is a last gen card. its the best agp card u can get. this was my last card b4 i got an nvidia 8800

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814241041

Answer 4

if you get a really high powered video card (you know when it needs two slots), then you might end up having to do a power supply upgrade too

:P

Answer 5

With Your Current Budget...I think Its 6800Gt...

Answer 6

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