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HIS Readying AGP HD 4670

No he was referring to a message I sent him about the joke he posted. I wasn't trying to be a buzz kill but it was in violation of the forum policy here, that joke could offend someone easily based on protected rights. Just trying to use CYA so he doesn't get in trouble with his fellow moderators.
 
775 is power efficient. bad comparison. 1156 hasnt been released yet. once it IS released, and has been released for say, 3 years - then yes, i expect the majority of users to have moved on.

775 is old, but its REPLACEMENT is not. In fact, its replacement isnt even out yet. Will be very soon, however.

sigh, sata is a bad comparison. its backwards compatible. AGP and PCI-E are not. same with 1.1 and 2.0.

As for office... sure, why not. MS could tie new office in with new OS. its still capable of reading and saving older formats for older OS/office, so why not.
 
Is AGP being around actually hurting someone personally?
 
i stopped buying agp after the 7800gs. the 3850 wasn't really that great and i don't think this card will either :/ sorry agp imma stick with nvidia. ATI isn't suitable for agp anymore
 
My AGP 3850 stomps the crap outa my 7800GS. Get the newest drivers for ATI and OC your cpu.
 
HAHA i wanted to. i had a 3700+ 754 only 1gb of ram though and a 500watt psu. i would've kept the 3850 but mehhh it was power consuming in my eyes.
 
HAHA i wanted to. i had a 3700+ 754 only 1gb of ram though and a 500watt psu. i would've kept the 3850 but mehhh it was power consuming in my eyes.

if you wanted power consuming, get a 2900.
 
When idle, the 3850 is much more power efficient than even the ancient 6800 or X800, actually. I've measured it myself. They also use about 50% less power than a HD 2900 XT when loaded down in a game. There's nothing power sucking about them.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-radeon-power,2122-3.html

4670 uses even less power, but the difference at idle is minimal. The problem with 4670 is it only has about 60% as much RAM bandwidth as 3850 and it shows sometimes. 4670 is either barely faster or is slower than a 3850 most of the time.


As for AGP going on forever, whatever. But what is funny is seeing people repeatedly pay the AGP card premium. That's dumb.
 
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I didnt pay for mine :laugh: so i like it.
 
Hahaha, while you guys tell people they can't have it, I'm busy selling it!

90%+ of the new systems I sell go out with XP.
I even have a lot of customers come to me after being told they can't have XP.

Best part is a lot of engineering companies can't run vista for software compatibility issues which they are not going to fork 50k+ for new software because they need 1 new computer.

Now that is over with..

The 4670 is on par and slightly faster than a 3870 depending, so yes it's faster than a 3850.

But that being said, it is nice to see some new cards still coming out in AGP but the prices are just stupid.. I myself am in need of a decent agp card for an older machine, keep looking for like a 6800 or something, the more these get released the lower the realistic prices on the 6800s will come down :P
 
Is AGP being around actually hurting someone personally?

the factories making the parts and using GPU cores, could instead be used to make more PCI-E parts, thus lowering prices a small amount.
 
Well apparently there is still a demand for AGP parts otherwise they wouldn't exist now would they
 
the factories making the parts and using GPU cores, could instead be used to make more PCI-E parts, thus lowering prices a small amount.
With that kind of argument, we only need "one factory, one brand" in the world for everything to improve economies of scale.

Oh, wait, :shadedshu

775 is power efficient. bad comparison. 1156 hasnt been released yet. once it IS released, and has been released for say, 3 years - then yes, i expect the majority of users to have moved on.

775 is old, but its REPLACEMENT is not. In fact, its replacement isnt even out yet. Will be very soon, however.

sigh, sata is a bad comparison. its backwards compatible. AGP and PCI-E are not. same with 1.1 and 2.0.

As for office... sure, why not. MS could tie new office in with new OS. its still capable of reading and saving older formats for older OS/office, so why not.

Mussels!!!! You are staying up too late, or getting up too early! Dont you see the sarcasm/irony in my post?
 
sarcasm and irony like escaping me. This IS the internet.
 
Well i sent some feedback to AMD about Driver support for legacy AGP parts, lets see if they even respond.
 
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