Ati releases new AGP video card. (REAL)

Huh, I thought the last AGP card they'd ever release would be the HD 3850, but apparently people living in the stone age can now play some decent games :P. The problem with that though, is that most people would probably have to upgrade their PSU because most computers using AGP have 250-350 watts (I could be wrong, that's just from what I have seen), and the money they use on a new power supply and video card could be put towards a new motherboard and CPU.
 
Have they not run out of bandwidth on AGP yet? One reason for PCI-E was the increase in power that could be afforded by having more available bandwidth. All I know is that this is probably the limit of AGP system's power. More powerful cards will just bottleneck!
 
almost every PCIe card doesn't even fill the bandwidth of a PCIe 1.0 16x slot, so i assume that AGP is getting very near to it's limit.
 
N3crosis said:
Huh, I thought the last AGP card they'd ever release would be the HD 3850, but apparently people living in the stone age can now play some decent games :P. The problem with that though, is that most people would probably have to upgrade their PSU because most computers using AGP have 250-350 watts (I could be wrong, that's just from what I have seen), and the money they use on a new power supply and video card could be put towards a new motherboard and CPU.
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But if they bought a CPU/board, that'd cost more then an average PSU/GFX card, and then they'd still need a PSU and GFX card

I know someone who bought this, thing is he thought his P4 2.6GHz with HT was a "P4 dual core", kind've amusing before he figured it out

The main problem with this card wouldnt be AGP being a bottleneck, it'd be the CPU, the vast majority of AGP systems are probably ~3GHz/3000+ PR rating single core systems, maybe a few 939 systems with dual core Athlon 64 chips with AGP but very few
 
there are some socket 775 boards with AGP, but they probably only support pentium 4's as well, or at the most a pentium d.
 
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