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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #105 - 28.12.06 at 15:29:35 Yeps, I'll keep it to AMD * ATi all the way for my main rigs since they always had the finest setups for my cash.
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Reply #106 - 28.12.06 at 16:19:14

I would love to get this card but I still think they need to becarefull on pricing this thing. I 300$ card isn't a new upgrade for me, at least not for a vid card, to me that's a new AM2 board and chip. Now a 150/175 maybe even 200, then yeah it's an upgrade option. Anything more then that though, why? I just bought a X850 Pro and that's working wonders over my 9600 Pro card already.

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #107 - 28.12.06 at 16:59:51 Hey Jandarsun8 why not sell the old cards you have now and combine the money you saved up with that and then you could buy something bigger right Anywyas I'll be keeping the S939 setup for a few years it has dual PXI-E x16 so for VGA upgrades it's a safe system to move on
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #108 - 29.12.06 at 21:43:39 ..seems like the good old agp is not slowing the x1950p down : http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/Sapphire%20X1950Pro%20AGP/index.php
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #109 - 29.12.06 at 22:26:18 Quote: ..seems like the good old agp is not slowing the x1950p down No surprise to me- 3dfx proved years ago that local video memory was more important then the interface.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted!
Reply #110 - 30.12.06 at 01:17:13

While most benchmarks indicated that the VGA card decides 80% of the system's overall speed & overall performance Wink

The Review say's it clearly

"It has been a while since a high performance AGP card hit the market. As such the X1950Pro really doesn't have any decent competition.

In all our testing the performance of the Sapphire X1950 Pro AGP was above expectations and it wasn't until we did our video playback test that we saw anything to differentiate the card from its PCI-E counterpart."

AGP isn't long before dead, it still shows that in the most cases it's better in 3D gaming than PCI- Express x16 for cards in this class.

imho AGP should of lived on this test simply did show that AGP x8 is still fast enought for the upcomming applications.

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Reply #111 - 22.01.07 at 23:48:25

Well, Newegg.com finally has them listed for sale starting at 234.99$ all the way up to 333.99$ for the OC'd version. Just thought I'd let you guys know. Selling my X800 GTO and my extra X850 Pro is probably what i'm going to do, since it's pretty much useless to me right now anyway. The machine that the GTO was in died, and with one of my friends moving to another state, it's not really worth replacing the motherboard (had three upto date gaming boxes so that my two friends could come over and not bring all of there equipment over). The 234.99 looks to be an option. The 50 mhz core clock speed would be nice but can't justify spending the extra money on something that I should be able to get close to by OC'ing the thing myself anyway.

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Reply #112 - 23.01.07 at 00:45:34

yeaps very well thought of and I'm sure that the X1950 Pro 256MB will bring your AGP x8 gaming experience to a new level

When you get the X1950 Pro AGP, could you test it in AGP x4 as well? I know that my X800XT PE AGP will do fine for now, always has been a big favour

But I wonder if it can do AGP x4 since the XFX GeForce 7600GT 580M AGP could not, because of the NV PCI-E to AGP bridge chip.

Somehow I think that ATi cards are 100% correct to the AGP Architechture.

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jandarsun8 God Member Offline Posts: 712 Minneapolis, MN Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #113 - 23.01.07 at 15:41:58 I will let you know man. Going to be a little bit, kind of strapped for cash. Had to get a lawyer but that's a different post completely. Once I get it in my hands though, I'll let you know.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #114 - 23.01.07 at 15:52:33 thanx that would be great Hope you get things cleared mate .
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #115 - 25.01.07 at 07:57:40 ..seems like powercolor is going to make x1950xt agp as well
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #116 - 25.01.07 at 12:12:16 @ ps47 do have a source of that? Man that's gonna be fun Crikey! Rads Rule! whooo hooo Edit: Found something about it http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-1198-view-agp-version-Radeon-X1950-XT.html
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #117 - 25.01.07 at 22:09:18 MMMM...FUNKEH! 8)
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #118 - 01.02.07 at 23:06:46 x1950gt agp: I think it cant get any more RED than this,can it?
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted!
Reply #119 - 01.02.07 at 23:28:40

hmm yeah I saw that one on the dutch forums yesterday, don't like the cooler design though, anywyas I would @ least replace it with a Zalman VF700Cu or VF900Cu Grin

but yeah it's a freaky AGP card, It's good to see ATi think of AGP people even nowadays Crikey! that's good to see 8)

Let's hope to see AGP versions of the X2600 Pro as XT as well.

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