Waiting for a Better AGP card?

PandaZ3 · Nov 10, 2007, 05:35 AM

It seems that AMD may finally be catching on to the fact that most people do not want their computers to sound like leaf blowers. The new cooler on the Radeon HD 3850 is a single slot solution rated at a wonderfully low 31 db (at least compared to the jet engines on previous cards). The faster Radeon HD 3870 will sport a dual-slot cooler, but it is rated at a modest 34 db. These are not perfectly quiet, but compared to previous attempts and even to their direct competitors they are much more tolerable. NVIDIA's 8000 series, including the 8800GT, usually hum along at 40+ db.
Also of note is that AMD is recommending their AIB partners to focus on the lower-end 3850 and leave the GDDR4 cards out of the spotlight for now. Their reasoning? Not quite sure, but anyway you figure it, the new Radeon series will have an amazing price/performance ratio.
Oh, and the 512MB 3850, AGP 3850, and 1024MB GDDR4 3870 should be available for the Christmas season. Yes, you read that correct, a 1 GB GDDR4 Radeon HD 3870 by Christmas. Now stop drooling and start saving your money.

That was posted on AMDzone on the 8th,

ChaosMinionX · Nov 10, 2007, 08:45 AM

I doubt you will be seeing anymore AGP cards since the X1950XT AGP..... PCIE/PCIE 2.0 from here on out. But if they did like they say on that news article, then yeah I would wait to get it.... AGP is going to be phased out real soon.

Stop It · Nov 10, 2007, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

I doubt you will be seeing anymore AGP cards since the X1950XT AGP..... PCIE/PCIE 2.0 from here on out. But if they did like they say on that news article, then yeah I would wait to get it.... AGP is going to be phased out real soon.

That was said after the Geforce 6xxx series and ATi X800 series went PCI-E, everyone said that you wouldn't see a high end AGP card again, and somehow, we got the top of the line X1950XT on AGP, the fact is that gfx cards still have not topped out the bandwidth available to AGP 8x, the only thing stopping Nvidia/ATi making AGP chips is cost, in my opinion, we will see a high end DX10 gfx card in AGP before next year, at least one gfx card maker will not be able to resist the temptation of market exclusivity.

PandaZ3 · Nov 10, 2007, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Stop It

That was said after the Geforce 6xxx series and ATi X800 series went PCI-E, everyone said that you wouldn't see a high end AGP card again, and somehow, we got the top of the line X1950XT on AGP, the fact is that gfx cards still have not topped out the bandwidth available to AGP 8x, the only thing stopping Nvidia/ATi making AGP chips is cost, in my opinion, we will see a high end DX10 gfx card in AGP before next year, at least one gfx card maker will not be able to resist the temptation of market exclusivity.

I think they will have Driect X 10.1

H3X4D3C1M4L · Nov 21, 2007, 03:18 AM

I was shocked to see an X1k product on AGP. I'll be shocked by another few orders of magnitude if we see cards like that on AGP.

Nov 10, 2007, 05:35 AM	#1
PandaZ3 HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cornelius, Oregon Posts: 419 Rep Power: 0	Waiting for a Better AGP card? It seems that AMD may finally be catching on to the fact that most people do not want their computers to sound like leaf blowers. The new cooler on the Radeon HD 3850 is a single slot solution rated at a wonderfully low 31 db (at least compared to the jet engines on previous cards). The faster Radeon HD 3870 will sport a dual-slot cooler, but it is rated at a modest 34 db. These are not perfectly quiet, but compared to previous attempts and even to their direct competitors they are much more tolerable. NVIDIA's 8000 series, including the 8800GT, usually hum along at 40+ db. Also of note is that AMD is recommending their AIB partners to focus on the lower-end 3850 and leave the GDDR4 cards out of the spotlight for now. Their reasoning? Not quite sure, but anyway you figure it, the new Radeon series will have an amazing price/performance ratio. Oh, and the 512MB 3850, AGP 3850, and 1024MB GDDR4 3870 should be available for the Christmas season. Yes, you read that correct, a 1 GB GDDR4 Radeon HD 3870 by Christmas. Now stop drooling and start saving your money. That was posted on AMDzone on the 8th, __________________ It has to be Plugged In? To electricity? Video cards in house, 5770, 4650, HD 3870, X1950 XTX, X1900 XTX, X1900 XT and X1900 Crossfire, 2 X1800 XT's, X850 Pro, X800 Pro, AIW 9600XT, 9600 Pro, 9550 SE, 9200, 7000. XFX 6800 GS

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Nov 21, 2007, 03:18 AM	#5
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	I was shocked to see an X1k product on AGP. I'll be shocked by another few orders of magnitude if we see cards like that on AGP.