Which graphics card out of these ones do you think i should get?

Question

Which of these is the best graphics card?

ATI Radeon™ X1650 Pro (512mb)
ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Pro (512mb)
Geforce 7600 GT (256mb)

They're all AGP by the way.

Answer 1

hi mate
well since i have the geforce 7600gt i am going to recommend the geforce,and if you use it you will see why
it has a core clock of 562mhz and a 400mhz memory clock(800mhz ddr effective),this gives it a memory bandwidth of 12.8 gb/sec,however if you look around you can get a agp version of this card with a better memory clock,the standard clock is 400mhz but there are models with 600 and 700mhz memory clocks aswell
also theres a version of this card with a 512mb ram memory(http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/AGP/nVIDIA+GeForce+7+Series/nVidia+GeForce+7600GT+512MB+AGP+?productId=28435),this is a very good product
the radeon x1650pro is a capable card and its core and memory speeds are around the same as the 7600gt,but i would tend to go for the hd2600pro if your going for any radeon based card
the reasons are clear,a 600mhz core clock speed and a 1000mhz memory speed,need i say more,and with a 128bit memoeyr interface and 512mb of video memory this is a card thats hard to beat,oh yes its direct x 10 and pixel and shader model 4.0 compliant
well of all of these,my head says the 7600gt,however common sense has to go for the hd2600pro,its future proof and has some very good specs
however if your able to afford it then theres a amazing card called the XFX GeForce 7950 GT 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (AGP) from http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-106-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411 is a amazing card with amazing specs
its core and memory clock speeds are 550mhz and 1300mhz respectively and with a 256bit interface this gives this card a 48.8GB/second memory bandwidth
this may seem slow compared to the 8800gts and gtx versions however remembering that this is a agp card these specs and bandwidth are awesome
this will run any game and will even give some pci-express cards a run for their money ....
any problems let me know
good luck mate !

Answer 2

hmmm toughy well im an expert with a lot of experience and my first advice is, forget the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Pro (512mb), that leaves 2, well if it weren't for the memory, I'd definetly say Nvidia Geforce, it's the best out, a lot better then ATI, a Geforce 4 will play games that come out now perfectly in low quality, thats amazing, my conclusion, though ATI has more memory, Geforce 7300 is the better one.

Answer 3

ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Pro (512mb)

tho i have to agree nvidia are more user friendly

Answer 4

26000 pro, the 7600 is faster, but the 2600 does direct x 10.

Answer 5

well, the ATI Radeon are faster, but i never liked them cuz i couldnt install one on my PC one time.. went with the Nvidia 7300 and installed easy and quick. i preffer Nvidia (GeForce)

Answer 6

The most up-to-date card is the ATi HD2600 Pro, so go with that.

Answer 7

7600GT is faster, as it has GDDR3 ram rather than the GDDR2 the other two have.

Not to mention Nvidia ForceWare drivers are MUCH easier to manage than ATI Catalyst drivers.

Answer 8

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/03/best_graphics_card/

see agp section