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onethreehill
05-19-2006, 05:49 AM
"Taipei, Taiwan, May 19th, 2006 --GECUBE, the major supplier of the world's leading graphics card brand, today announced the performance AGP 8x graphics card besides the PCI-Express x16 512MB edition, and is now shipping to the market—the GECUBE™ RADEON ® X1600XT 512MB AGP 8x based on 1.4ns GDDR 3 memory, AVIVO, high performance AGP graphics card powered by the ATI RV530 VPU (visual processing unit)."
http://www.gecube.com/press-release-detail.php?id=61300
eddieate
05-19-2006, 05:56 AM
is there really any point giving such a low end card 512mb of ram?
Ed.
onewingedangel
05-19-2006, 05:57 AM
512MB x1600= Stupid

nvidia have a downclocked 512MB 7900 on sale in agp format, the best Ati have is either the x850xtpe with 256MB RAM or now this, hardly a proper competition. I understand most of us have pci-e cards now, but if your going to release ag cards have them balanced (no need for 512 on a x1600) and competitive with rivals solutions. Just look at how nvidia can price gouge with their agp 7900.
alexio
05-19-2006, 06:00 AM
$299,- Worst thing is that stupid people will actually by this :D
GoriLLakoS
05-19-2006, 06:01 AM
club 3d has already this card out 2 months +
Starscream
05-19-2006, 06:25 AM
were is the point in a X1600Xt with 512MB?
either theyl use really slow RAM to save money or the price will b boosted up by the amount of ram wich wont give u any perf boost anyway.

tbh i alsod ont see the point in the 7800GS but the stores i buy stuff at seem to have no problem selling them.
the 7800GS costs 245 euro.
so tbh if ud get a new AGP card to game with go with a cheap 6800GS or a other 6800.x800 if the price justifies it.
nn_step
05-19-2006, 07:49 AM
well it would make a good CAD card but I doubt people here will find much use for it.
VulgarHandle
05-19-2006, 08:02 AM
cad is exactly what i do, so this looks very interesting
NinjaWreck
05-19-2006, 01:27 PM
cad is exactly what i do, so this looks very interesting

You can get an X1800 XT 512 for cheaper.
Kunaak
05-19-2006, 01:54 PM
128 bit, and 512 meg, just is a real bad combination...
like a fat girl, with breast implants... just a waste of effort.
VulgarHandle
05-19-2006, 01:59 PM
You can get an X1800 XT 512 for cheaper.

not for agp
Drunner611
05-19-2006, 03:04 PM
128 bit, and 512 meg, just is a real bad combination...
like a fat girl, with breast implants... just a waste of effort.
Sad, but true. Nice comparison, I keep forgetting AGP still exists.