Whats the best AGP video card on the market?

The best AGP video card is the Radeon HD 3850, which has practically disappeared from retail channels. The Radeon HD 4670 has almost identical performance and is the best card that's readily available.



However, for computers with AGP slots the best course of action is usually a motherboard upgrade (or new computer, since most systems with AGP slots have weak CPUs by today's standards).



For the cost of an AGP Radeon 4670, you could buy a motherboard with a PCI-Express x16 slot along with a PCI-E version of the 4670 which performs better. Having a PCI-Express x16 slot also means better cards like the GeForce GT240, Radeon 5670, GTS 450 etc become options.



Of course if you have a brand-name computer like Dell or HP, then a motherboard upgrade isn't possible without buying a new copy of Windows.



Anyway, the Radeon 3850 if you can find one, or the 4670... those are the two best AGP cards. Nvidia abandoned the AGP market years ago and doesn't have anything comparable. None of their series 8 or later GeForce cards were ever manufactured in AGP.|||hi mate

allthough the agp bus has largely been replaced by the pci-express x16 bus there are still some agp cards around and these are mainly radeon based cards

the best current agp card is the "Sapphire ATi Radeon HD 3850 512MB GDDR3 AGP DVI Retail Graphics Card"( http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productdetail… ) which is based around a 256bit memory interface and 512mb of gddr3 memory clocked at 1650mhz ddr effective..... theres also a 650mhz core clock and 640 stream processors..... it also supports direct x 10.1 and pixel and shader model 4.1

in terms of performance its a pretty good card... i owned the same card around 3 years ago and it would run all the games i ran ..... even running crysis it managed a 23fps frame rate running on medium...( 1280x1024 )

another popular agp card is the "HIS ATI Radeon HD 4670 ICEQ 1024MB DDR3 HDMI AGP Graphics Card"( http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduc… ) ... however this uses a 128bit memory interface which does affect the performance at higher resolutions... however its 750mhz core clock and 1gb of gddr3 memory clocked at 1600mhz makes this a capable card that will run modern games at decent detail

however if possible i would still go with the Sapphire ATi Radeon HD 3850 mainly due to the superior 256bit memory interface,however you do need a 450w power supply with 24A on the +12v rail ....

there are other agp cards such as the geforce 6200 and radeon HD4350 however these are pretty slow and are not ideal for gaming...

i hope this helps,any problems let me know

good luck mate !|||This one has the most muscle out of anything.

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This one is pretty good too

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



If you're trying to bring life back to an old system, a new video card should do the trick. However, can you post what kind of processor you have? Some processors may limit the potential of some video cards. And make sure youre power supply can handle the power hungry 3850.



Personal experience: I knew my old AGP desktop couldn't handle a powerful new card, and since my old Pentium 4 3ghz was outdated anyway (a single core just doesn't cut it anymore), I just got a whole new system. If you don't game, they work fine (my 7 year old Radeon 9800 XT beats the living **** out of modern intel graphics), but if you do game, you probably could use a new system.|||They still make AGP video cards, but it might be time to consider upgrading your computer. This is the best one I can find and it's not to expensive! Good Luck!

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/…|||well its kinda hard to tell since they stopped making AGP cards years ago...