Can you stay in the game with AGP?
Checking the requirements of the latest and greatest FPS to grace the PC, BioShock recommends systems in the 2.4Ghz CPU range with 1GB of system RAM and a health 256MB video card. Based on that, if you are thinking about retiring your single core AGP based gaming rig, perhaps thing again. XFX has dropped the 512MB 7950GT processing power onto an AGP card.
For a mere $244 ($215 after rebates)
You can add some serious GDDR3 bandwidth to your archaic gaming rig.
Based on some preliminary research, it appears this card is not only
adequate for current gaming at the "mouth watering" settings, but with
the 512MB of memory it is also ready for HD, supporting resolutions up
to 2560 x 1600.
Sure you can get faster, better, DX10 compliant GeForce 8 Series PCI-Express video card for the same cost. But this isn't about the best gaming out there, this is about squeeing the last bit of juice out of your dusty gaming rig that is on it's last legs.
If you have a 2.4+Ghz CPU the speed is plenty fast for gaming. The average dual core gaming rig is less than 2.4 Ghz per core. And if the game doesn't support dual-core, the single core with a higher clock speed should keep up just fine. If you have less than 2GB of memory in your old system, then pinch the extra $60 or so to get it up to 2GB of the fastest DDR memory that matches your board/CPU FSB limits.
Then you can definitely stretch the legs of your rig with this AGP card, and stay in the game just a bit longer...waiting for the next best thing...(45nm CPU Cores, DDR3 Memory, Geforce 9 Series with GDDR4...)
Sure you can get faster, better, DX10 compliant GeForce 8 Series PCI-Express video card for the same cost. But this isn't about the best gaming out there, this is about squeeing the last bit of juice out of your dusty gaming rig that is on it's last legs.
If you have a 2.4+Ghz CPU the speed is plenty fast for gaming. The average dual core gaming rig is less than 2.4 Ghz per core. And if the game doesn't support dual-core, the single core with a higher clock speed should keep up just fine. If you have less than 2GB of memory in your old system, then pinch the extra $60 or so to get it up to 2GB of the fastest DDR memory that matches your board/CPU FSB limits.
Then you can definitely stretch the legs of your rig with this AGP card, and stay in the game just a bit longer...waiting for the next best thing...(45nm CPU Cores, DDR3 Memory, Geforce 9 Series with GDDR4...)
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