Anusha
01-10-2007, 07:33 PM
Source: Tomshardware
The release of ATI's newer X1950 PRO in an AGP flavor has really made these arguments come to the fore front. Sure, it's probably the most powerful AGP card on the planet, but is it wise to invest in an AGP card at this time, with DirectX 10 around the corner, and an old CPU that might be bottlenecking the card anyway?
We thought it would be a good idea to run some experiments, to see if it's worth it to upgrade that old AGP system with a new card, or if the money's better spent moving on to greener PCI Express pastures.
In this first article, we're going to start by benchmarking all the newest, most powerful AGP cards on an Athlon XP 2500+. This system should be representative of many older Athlon XP systems out there, and would probably give a fair approximation of older Pentium 4 2.5 GHz performance as well.
Read the full article here (http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/10/agp-platform-analysis/).
The release of ATI's newer X1950 PRO in an AGP flavor has really made these arguments come to the fore front. Sure, it's probably the most powerful AGP card on the planet, but is it wise to invest in an AGP card at this time, with DirectX 10 around the corner, and an old CPU that might be bottlenecking the card anyway?
We thought it would be a good idea to run some experiments, to see if it's worth it to upgrade that old AGP system with a new card, or if the money's better spent moving on to greener PCI Express pastures.
In this first article, we're going to start by benchmarking all the newest, most powerful AGP cards on an Athlon XP 2500+. This system should be representative of many older Athlon XP systems out there, and would probably give a fair approximation of older Pentium 4 2.5 GHz performance as well.
Read the full article here (http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/10/agp-platform-analysis/).