Hi everybody..

Im taking a short break while job hunting lol, and thought id have some 3D cards to maybe upgrade to and like put a little smile back on my face

Basically my PC is just over a year and a half old, its a good spec and i have no problems at all with it:

- Pentium 4 - 3.4Ghz / 800Mhz
- Corsiar 1GB 400Mhz DDR @ 2-2-2-5
- Sound Blaster Audigy
- 2 x 80GB HDD (ATA133)
- etc etc

I mean when i built it AGP8X was still supposed to be great, but then PCIX came out like the next month and i was like BLINK!!!

At the moment i have a Radeon 9800XT/256MB, and im finding it a little lame for CS Source and HL2 DM, dont get me wrong its a great performer on most of my games, but its just got this crapness to it lol.

I searched overclocker.co.uk for the AGP8X range of cards, and found the following (baring in mind i am not upgrading to a PCI-X system for years tbh)... So let me know which is likely to be best.

1. //HIS%20Excalibur%20ATI%20Radeon%20X1600%20Pro%20ICEQ%20512MB%20DDR2%20TV-Out/DVI%20(AGP)%20-%20Retail Ã,£99.82 all inclusive

2. //Sapphire%20X1600%20Pro%20512MB%20DDR2%20AVIVO%20TV-Out/DVI%20(AGP)%20-%20Retail Ã,£92.77 all inclusive

3. //Sapphire%20ATI%20Radeon%20X800%20GTO%20256MB%20GDDR3%20TV-Out/DVI%20(AGP)%20-%20Retail Ã,£105.69 all inclusive

I was considering either 1 or 2, maybe the Sapphire card as i have never heard of HSI... but the HSI has a much better cooling system. And as for choice 3 i am assuming its more expensive cause of its GDDR3 memory, thats a drop tbh from a X1600 to a X800 :/

Any ideas?

Cheers JazzyJay (sorry MustangGT now lol!!!)

Sorry i messed the links up

That would be:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ATI_AGP_Graphics_Cards.html

View the 3 cards at that link :/ sorry

The GTO is best outa that lot, I think.

Really? Is it because of its memory?

I cant seem to read up on any of these cards properly

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/244/1 - gto review, cant find an agp one tho.

I tracked some reviews for the X1600 Pro AGP, and im shocked at its poorness! its barely faster then my 9800XT 256Mb, :/ which is so hard to understand. Ive noticed that the Geforce 6800GT and X850XT win the majority of benchmarks and tests in this card category of mid range budget.

X1600 is of the list then

pretty much every review have of the 1600 series ive seen has said not bad card, but get the X800 series instead.