DIE HARD of AGP ! with Sapphire Radeon HD3850 AGP (Picture Preview)

[ZoLKoRn]

Hi all Today i receive some hardware is it amazing, that's Radeon HD3850 AGP from Sapphire ... wow it real having after heared from news about the new year and now it puting on my desk .... AGP will Never Die !

Boxed have a showing is 8X AGP Version



The Card come on Blue-sea color of PCB



Bundled


Front and back view



8 pin power connector !, don't worry for old-school owner in the bundled device it have adapter cable 4pin molex to 8pin pci-e


compared with 3850 pci-e version


btw. give me a few time for finding some old-school hardware as come to benching with it hehehe...

[triple_A]

rofl!!

Cool, now i can upgrade the graphics on my brothers athlon XP2500 rig from a radeon 9700pro to this

[Cybercat]

Why??

[kiwi]

Actually Asrock has AGP boards with Conroe support, so theoretically you could run it @ acceptable level

[Cooper]

This card will be a fine upgrade to many P4/A64 based systems. I'm sure there's still lot of users using good old s478 and nF3 stuff

[ownage]

My testrig has an Asrock mobo with AGP and PCI-E. So i run a GF mx440 AGP with a conroe lol

[Origin_Unknown]

would be sweet on the asus pc-dl my bro has

[Epsilon84]

Last hurrah for AGP. I wonder how much the bus width is affecting performance at this level.

Considering the price premium these cards carry, you must REALLY want to keep hold of your existing AGP system to get one of these.

[Disaster_Master]

This card with a nice dothan and some old school BH-5

[hecktic]

lol hahaha ... very funny, yet very good product

[LuckyNV]

is that supposed to be the bridge chip on the back?

looks like its missing a heatsink?

[SoF]

wohoooo agp ftw

[Miwo]

With these cards, you'd be able to play back H.264/VC1 stuff on a Wilamette

[Morais]

Dont know if you noticed, but there is a 8 pin power connector....I highly doubt someone with AGP based computer will have a psu with 8 pin adapter...

Oh nvm, theres a molex-to-8pin adapter

[lowtcell]

Actually Asrock has AGP boards with Conroe support, so theoretically you could run it @ acceptable level

I still have an Asrock 775i65G with E6300 and AGP on a family use PC. This would be a nice update to the X800GTO PRO running in there now. I just don't know what kind of driver support to expect for this card. My X800 will not run with CCC over 7.9

[Polizei]

Would go nice in my dad's aging Dell so he could play COD4 at some acceptable framerates.

If I can get this for him, Im sure he would pass on the replaced 9800Pro to me, and maybe I could frame it.

Power requirements?

[ak_47_boy]

AGP x8 will never be a bottleneck. There are lots of systems that could handle this card with ease.

[Epsilon84]

Would go nice in my dad's aging Dell so he could play COD4 at some acceptable framerates.

If I can get this for him, Im sure he would pass on the replaced 9800Pro to me, and maybe I could frame it.

Power requirements?

It would draw close to 100W under load I guess, perhaps a bit less.

COD4 also requires a dual core CPU to run well, I would assume an ageing (I swear this is the correct spelling but Firefox says otherwise) AGP system would have a single core CPU... just keep that in mind...
http://au.gamespot.com/features/6183967/p-5.html

[Indes]

Is it really worth it with hardware prices these days? you can make a dual core am2 system for like 400 dollars canadian. Also, im pretty sure it is aging (the "ing" takes out the vowel at the end if i remember my English correctly)

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

Please kill it.

[JoeBar]

OMG there will be some that will actually buy it...

[DuceGT]

Less talk, more benchmarks !

[D4rkn3ss]

damn.. AGP it's a friggin' zombie! you can't kill what's already dead

[jcool]

Nice one
I bet that card is gonna kick some oldschool ass!

[zanzabar]

why dont u guys like agp this card will go in my media box with its 3ghz 3500 and im geting a blue ray drive


also pci-e2>agp>pci-e

pci-e is slower than agp unless u need the extra 2GB/s that most cards wont use