Looking for the Best AGP Video Card.?

Hi.

I have this pretty old system and I just wanna use it for some games like Sims 3, NBA 2K10 etc.

My motherboard is Biostar K8M800.

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/content.php?S_ID=141

It has an old AGP slot.

My question is, what AGP type video graphics card would you recommend? (for my motherboard)

Is Radeon HD 3850 a good choice?

but can my mobo support it's GDDR3 memory type?

Please help.

Thanks|||Go for either the HD3850 or the HD4670, both cards are pretty much equal in performance with the HD4670 using a bit less power while having some extra features.



You're not gonna find much better for the aged AGP slot though, and it'll generally be more expensive (less demand, less supply, higher price)... Maybe it's time to upgrade?



Also, even if you could get a card with GDDR5 (newest memory for video cards from what I know) on that motherboard, it wouldn't matter. Graphics RAM and normal RAM are not related, unless you find a graphics card which uses normal RAM for itself.|||Nice board, and also nice onboard graphics! Upgrading won't hurt, but those are pretty nice already. :)

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|||The Radeon 3850 remains the best AGP card ever made, slightly edging the newer AGP 4670 in most benchmarks, and having fewer driver issues.



However the 3850 does need a 400-450W power supply, which usually means another upgrade for people with older machines. The Radeon 4600 series cards are less power-hungry.



Your motherboard's supported RAM type and video memory type are completely independent- you can use GDDR3 graphics cards on motherboards which take DDR2, DDR, SDRAM etc- as long as card matches the slot type and you've got sufficient power.



For games like the Sims you wouldn't need a 3850, even a 3650 or 2600XT would be fine for that.... But 3850 prices have dropped so much, you may as well go big.|||BFG Nvidia 7800 GS OC was king in its day and still can cook but hard to find now maby ebay. people will tell you get a new mobo your gona bottleneck wih agp. Dont worrie about it try to find and agp card on new egg look for one with a comparable gpu to the new pcie cards. Ati card is ok but will get you low settings some med settings. I prefer Nvidia but thats me . Just try to find one with at the least a 450 mhz 500mhz better core clock and 512 mb ram ddr2 or gddr3 it will work. That will at least get med to some high settings smoothley depending on game. Hope this helped some : )