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At least one add-in board manufacturing partner of ATI Technologies, a leading supplier of graphics processors, is planning to begin shipments of graphics cards for accelerated graphics port (AGP) bus that are based on the company’s latest Radeon X1950 Pro graphics processing unit.

Several online stores are currently taking orders on GeCube Radeon X1950 Pro for AGP 8x bus graphics cards. The novelty has the same specifications as its PCI Express counterpart: it has fully fledged Radeon X1950 Pro chip onboard, 256MB of GDDR3 memory, two DVI outputs and so on. Given that the code-named RV570 graphics processing unit (GPU) was designed to work with PCI Express bus, the new board is equipped with a special bridge chip to “converts” PCI Express signals into AGP signals.

UK-based Overclockers.co.uk online store is currently offering GeCube Radeon X1950 Pro AGP version for £187.99 ($350) including value added tax (VAT), meanwhile, numerous Germany-based stores offer to preorder the same board for €218 – €242 ($273 - $303).

ATI Technologies said that the AGP 8x version of the Radeon X1950 Pro graphics card was designed by itself and it provided reference designs to the add-in card suppliers. The official recommended price for the part is higher compared to PCI Express version of the product.

The new ATI Radeon X1950 Pro AGP products are likely to become the fastest add-in graphics accelerators for outdated personal computers with AGP 8x slot, but their success on the market is uncertain, as those, who seek for truly high performance graphics cards are very likely to own a computer with a PCI Express x16 slot. This is the first high-performance offering for accelerated graphics port from ATI in two years, as previously the company downplayed the importance of AGP upgrade market.

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What is this fuckin crap?!
Don't they know that agp is dead!
That is D-E-A-D, dead!!!!!!
For you boneheads out there that wants a new gpu riding on the agp interface then you really should go and check out how much computer technology has advanced! Afte rthat then get yourself a new system with PCI Express!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
This is getting to be really really gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First PCI x1300 now a AGP x1950?
What's next!?
A ISA version of the 8800GTX?
Great then how abour PCI version to go with that too?

[Posted by: asfioy7ar7 q[-237r5###@Q# $Q@#RFSDFA@Q#!@#Q$#@#$R WERQW  | Date: 10/23/06 11:56:49 AM]
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People will buy it, and they will make money - that's why they're doing it. It doesn't hurt you.

For some like myself who have a high end Socket 939 system with an nForce 3 chipset, you still have AGP and this could be a good alternative to doing a full CPU/mobo/memory/video upgrade.

Now I'm not going to buy it, but there is a demand for these types of cards from people who are in a similar situation.
[Posted by: Greg  | Date: 10/23/06 12:59:59 PM]
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3. 
They should just let agp die. its time to move on. if you can buy a agp card like this one you can afford to go to a pcie system.
[Posted by: Smartguy  | Date: 10/23/06 03:33:18 PM]
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4. 
AGP had it's life cycle artificially shortened by greedy companies... even the GeForce 7 series was not utilizing AGP bandwidth (2 GB/s) to its maximum...

why are you PCI-e users so angry anyways? it's not like anyone is forcing you to buy it. i have a decent 939 system that can be pushed for a few more years with a CPU and GPU upgrade, so i think this is great news.

what's "gay" is kids whose daddies buy them the newest stuff whenever they cry and wet their pants... i'll be holding onto my AGP slot for a while... keep AGP products coming!
[Posted by: mr_poopyhead  | Date: 10/24/06 07:38:50 PM]
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5. 
Diamond, VisionTek, Sapphire and PowerColor
also have AGP X1950 Pro cards coming out.

The PowerColor has Arctic Cooling's
Accelero X2 silent cooling -
http://www.powercolor.com/global/main_product_series.asp?in t=agp&chp=x1950
[Posted by: Ade  | Date: 10/25/06 03:39:04 AM]

6. 
Many people will buy it. Look at how fast the Leadtek 7600GT AGP sells out. Look at the prices people are paying for the Gainward 7800GT AGP. Heck, even a X1650Pro AGP has started selling.

There are many people with 6x00 AGP cards and a good CPU looking to upgrade.
[Posted by: sumi  | Date: 10/26/06 10:45:05 AM]

7. 
No 7900GS for AGP on the horizon?
[Posted by: Schugy  | Date: 10/28/06 01:54:06 PM]

8. 
Just because my Socket-A system is is old does not mean I want to scrp it.

I look at it like a "Classic" car; Just because my Cherried Out '57 Chevy is old doesn't mean I want to get rid of it and buy a Lexus...

I hope they keep offering upgrades in the AGP platform for some time to come... ;)
[Posted by: wizzard0003  | Date: 10/29/06 11:06:24 AM]

9. 
i happen to be a apg comsumer myself and i cant really afford the price tag for a compleat overhaul of my currant system it just doesnt justifiy the cost right now and i know many others would agree

Currantly upgradeing from radeon 9500 pro to radeon X1600 pro 512meg
[Posted by: darkman  | Date: 10/31/06 12:21:22 PM]

10. 
I am not willing to buy a PCI-E card just cuz it is cheaper than its agp equal, like someone else said earlier, it isnt cheap, its a new mobo, cpu, ram, and then the vid card.. No, i think i will stick with my sock 939 dual core 4200, 2 gig ram, and slap a nice agp card in it.. this will keep my system almost current for a long time to come.. i just notice on my older vid card that i am falling behind and want something with shader 3.0 and more power.. this will satisfy that easily methinks.
[Posted by: deth  | Date: 11/02/06 04:00:50 AM]

11. 
Ok, im not wallowing in money, but when i came across some (through a dead relative) i built a 3300$ Dual-Core multi-GPU SLI system and im GLAD I DID. I wish i had an AGP slot to run my old audigy but oh well, the on-board does me service. It was worth it to me.
[Posted by: Tzimisce  | Date: 11/13/06 04:59:55 AM]

12. 
And what about installing windows on and on while buying a new system. Now I can just change the card and play on. I wait till my rig cannot play the newest games at the lowest settings anymore.
[Posted by: hubhib  | Date: 11/15/06 02:56:21 PM]

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