Wednesday, November 29th 2006

GECUBE Releases Radeon 1950PRO AGP, HDCP Edition Video Card


GECUBE, one of the world's leading brands in the graphics card business, today announced its new GECUBE X1950PRO AGP product line, further strengthening its offerings for ATI's top-of-the-line graphics platform. GECUBE X1950PRO AGP series delivers high-definition entertainment with stunningly fast gaming performance, industry-leading image quality and crystal clear High Definition digital video at a new and affordable price point.

The 1950PRO AGP support Shader Model 3.0, utilizes the latest graphics processing architecture comes with 36 pixel pipelines, an extensive set of image quality features like simultaneous HDR with adaptive Anti-aliasing and a palette of over one billion colors, offers the users to get the most out of their gaming experiences.

Using Avivo technology, the ATI Radeon X1950PRO provides incredible quality video playback for today's high-definition media formats, displaying one billion colors, or 10-bit throughout the graphics pipeline. The new card is HDCP-compliant, including a built-in EEPROM and HDCP key. The GECUBE Radeon X1950PRO AGP edition is also ready for Windows Vista with Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certified drivers from AMD, in order to give users the complete Windows Vista experience, including the Aero interface.

The new Radeon 1950PRO AGP version will delivers exciting new levels of display quality and performance over this industry standard graphics interface. It provides an affordable budget for upgrades to Vista Ready and power 3D gaming performance without purchasing a new system. GECUBE R1950PRO AGP products are fully RoHS compliant.
Source: GECUBE
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22 Comments on GECUBE Releases Radeon 1950PRO AGP, HDCP Edition Video Card

#1
ktr
SWEET!!!

agp lives! lol
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#2
wiak
woot
this might be slower than the pcie x16 version :P
but WOOT AGP? :D
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#3
kakazza
Very nice, especially due to the fact that the cooler doesn't seem to be 2-slot :)
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#4
tofu
AGP Yeeha!

AGP 8X lives! :rockout:

EDIT: but w/ dx10 coming out, will this thing sell like hotcakes anymore?
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#5
ktr
tofuAGP Yeeha!

AGP 8X lives! :rockout:

EDIT: but w/ dx10 coming out, will this thing sell like hotcakes anymore?
should be cheap then...and i bet there is gonna be a few agp dx10 cards.
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#6
Jimmy 2004
Yeah, hopefully nice and cheap because of low demand :D

If they make a DX10 card for AGP I'll be impressed, I honestly thought they were giving up on it after the 7x00 and X1x00 series took so long to become AGP.
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#7
lemonadesoda
This card has been out in Europe for a couple of weeks already. Prices are pretty good. According to specifications, its FASTER than the PCIe16 version. (Because of higher stock clocks :-)

Best prices here geizhals.at/deutschland/a223127.html
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#8
TXcharger
i wanna hold off till i find out if theyr gonna make DX10 agp cards
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#9
xvi
Aww.. I was pretty proud on having a X850 XT AGP. I thought it'd be the fastest ATI AGP card out there. Time to start saving again..
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#10
Makaveli
Yes the AGP version is faster than the PCI E version!
as stated above, so that other guy is wrong. I was just considering making the move to PCI now I can just grab this instead. I love my MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board.
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#12
KennyT772
how could this be faster...? there is no mention of clockspeeds.

either way it just proves ati wants every last dollar and cent it can get!
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#13
Makaveli
There was mention of it running faster clocks than the PCI E version. I will have to look for the link. something like 575 core for PCIE and 600core for the AGP version.

I love the way u say that too. Well duh what is a business suppose to do not want your money, so they can go belly up! The demand is still there for AGP, there are far more AGP board in in use than PCI E.
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#14
ktr
KennyT772how could this be faster...? there is no mention of clockspeeds.

either way it just proves ati wants every last dollar and cent it can get!
wrong! ati only makes the chip, gecube does the pcb <---which includes the interface.
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#15
Namslas90
If it wasn't made by Ge(cube) I would by one, but i've had bad luck with the cubes in the past. Mostly driver problems but A 1600 I bought was RMA'd twice and still never worked right so I sold it.
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#16
tkpenalty
ATI will probably make DX10 AGP GPUs which dont completely rely on the processor, unlike nVidia's offering which totally has no chance of making it onto an AGP slot.

I think they should make a specialised range for AGP, not being Radeon
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#18
Helmi
xviAww.. I was pretty proud on having a X850 XT AGP. I thought it'd be the fastest ATI AGP card out there. Time to start saving again..
Hah, I'm in the same boat as you =)

Now it has become really tempting to postpone the move to PCIe again :p
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#20
evil bill
ah - that's why I can find the Sapphire link, because it was Powercolor I was thinking of :o
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#21
Frederik S
NICE NICE NICE NICE NICE NICE!!!

No seriously I think it will perform just as good as its PCI-E equivalents!
AGP 8x wasn't a bottleneck at all when the industry moved on the PCI-E.
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#22
WarhammerTX
If things are the way it has been in the past the agp will be faster just like the X850XTagp was faster than its pcie counterpart. But you also have to take in consideration that all the faster cpus are made for the newer mb that use the pcie slot. The only reason I changed over to pcie was to get a faster vid card if they would have put these out sooner I would not have changed for at least another year. Ive got the X1950pro now and I like it. Its not the best overclocker Ive ever owned but it is fast. The only drivers out at the moment are Ati and ati tool doesnt recognize the card yet. You guts probably already know this but here is a good comparison chart on the vid cards.

www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html?modelx=33&model1=574&model2=565&chart=224
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