Video Card News- Newer AGP cards
posted in Graphics, Technology |I remember when the NVidia 7800GS AGP version came out and it was predicted to be the end of the line for AGP video cards. Since then we have been lucky enough to have two newer generations come out including some AGP models, the second being the AMD/ATI 8600XT that should be available in an AGP version from Sapphire. This isn’t the top of the line card but might be a nice choice to upgrade some of my existing AGP machines so they can support HD-quality video and all that stuff. I’m looking forward to seeing how it compares to my existing GF 7600GS for gaming. I’m planning on upgrading the base machine anyway soon but its nice to know that there is an option to put a real DX10 video card in my various AGP-based machines.
ATI also has the same problem NVidia does that the high end cards are missing the full video-decode support. So that makes it a lot less bitter that this card is the mid-range one which IS supposed to have the full video decode.