Fastest AGP video card??

Damascus

Damascus

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I'm holding off for a while on building a new "gaming" computer - so I'm going to have to make do with what I have for now - which is a P4 3.0E (i865PE chipset board), with 1gb dual channel DDR400.
I am limited to AGP on this board, and it's hard to find any AGP cards anymore... I've been searching, and found a few... back when I was into gaming, I had a good PC with a 7800GTX, back when it was "top tier"... and back then, anyone with an AGP board wanted the 7800GS...
Now, since DX10 is out, I'd like to get a DX10 capable card - as fast as I can get with appx. $100 - $120.
So, my question is this - I have found the following cards, which one would be the fastest?

Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 w/ 512MB GDDR3 ($110)
eVGA Geforce 7800GS w/ 256MB GDDR3 ($130)
Visiontek Radeon x1950 Pro w/ 256MB GDDR3 ($120)
eVGA Geforce 6800 Ultra w/ 256MB GDDR3 ($110)

And yes, I know, my CPU will be horribly bottlenecking any of these cards, but I want the fastest one I can get for this amount on money. I also seen some good deals on some 7600GS cards, but I really want to stick with 256-bit memory interface. Also, I do have an adequate PSU for any card.
Thanx in advance for any help!!!
 
To start... i would personally recommend that you just hold your horses and save the money, those gpu's will be worthless to you when you end up building a new rig as they are agp. You are investing in a dead technology, forewarned, now i can procede with showing you this, currently the best agp card out there:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102730

Depending on what your doing, your cpu will bottleneck you. Since its dead tecnology, i would recommend going with a lower end gpu as your cpu will hold you back anyhow:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129096
 
Thanx a million! That's what I thought.
I know AGP is a dead technology - and I understand that when I build the new computer later I'll be having to buy a PCI-E card, but that's ok. I just want the FASTEST AGP card I can get with $110 so I can at least play the games I own... as of now my current 3 fastest cards I own (Geforce 4 Ti4600 128MB, Radeon 9250 128MB, and Geforce 5600 Ultra) aren't fast enough for me to even play FEAR, HL2, let alone go out and buy anything new like FEAR 2, FarCry 2, etc...
Thanx for the advice! Looks like I'll be ordering a 3850!
 
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