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Orson Cart

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 11:27 pm
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I have been given several workstations that are a few
years old. They are still quite useful (heaps of RAM, RAID SATA,
low-noise power supplies etc.) but have Radeon 9800XT AGP cards.
I have a scientific application in mind for them that requires fast
rendering on large screens (2560x1600).
What would be ATI's best of the AGP line?

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:07 am
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Even with the fastest AGP cards you are likely not to get the speed you
seem to need. 2560x1600 is a heck of a lot of pixels!

Current ~$200 PCIe 2x16 retail cards with DDR5 memory and 4x core CPUs
have fun with that high a resolution and fast response time!

I suppose it will depend a great deal on the rendering complexity.

On 9/5/2010 10:43 PM, Orson Cart wrote:
> I have been given several workstations that are a few
> years old. They are still quite useful (heaps of RAM, RAID SATA,
> low-noise power supplies etc.) but have Radeon 9800XT AGP cards.
> I have a scientific application in mind for them that requires fast
> rendering on large screens (2560x1600).
> What would be ATI's best of the AGP line?
In 2003 the 9800XT was a top of the line card initially? priced at
almost $500.

To the best of my knowledge
ATI Radeon HD 3450 (AGP) (Supposedly crossfire capable)
ATI Radeon X1650 PRO (AGP 8x)

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Man-wai Chang

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:25 am
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On 06-Sep-10 10:43, Orson Cart wrote:
> I have been given several workstations that are a few
> years old. They are still quite useful (heaps of RAM, RAID SATA,
> low-noise power supplies etc.) but have Radeon 9800XT AGP cards.
> I have a scientific application in mind for them that requires fast
> rendering on large screens (2560x1600).
> What would be ATI's best of the AGP line?

ATI Radeon 4350 & 4670. Nvidia didn't release anything AGP after 6600GT.

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:25 am
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> To the best of my knowledge
> ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 (AGP) (Supposedly crossfire capable)
> ATI Radeon™ X1650 PRO (AGP 8x)

I have seen Radeon 2600 a few months ago in Hong Kong.

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:44 am
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> ATI Radeon 4350 & 4670. Nvidia didn't release anything AGP after 6600GT.

I have a Nvidia EVGA 7600GT 512MB Superclock AGP in my 8 plus year old Dell
Dimension 8200 box. That was as much AGP bang as you could get as of 2
years ago.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 12:26 pm
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Am 06.09.2010 12:09, * Man-wai Chang:

> Nvidia didn't release anything AGP after 6600GT.

So the Geforce 7600GS AGP I have on one of my older computers doesn't
exist then? Wink

The fastest Nvidia AGP card was officially the 7900GS. If I remember
right there also was a 7900GS with a 7900GT GPU from one manufacturer
which was a tad faster than a standard 7900GS.

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(Msg. 7) Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:36 pm
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HD3850 AGP. Much faster than the HD4650. Apparently you can still buy them
new for $210:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&num=10&safe=off&q=hd+3850...p&cid=2

It is very picky with drivers, though. The latest drivers on AMD's web site
likely won't work. You will have the use the drivers from Visiontek:
http://www.visiontek.com/downloads.html

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"Orson Cart" wrote in message

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> I have been given several workstations that are a few
> years old. They are still quite useful (heaps of RAM, RAID SATA,
> low-noise power supplies etc.) but have Radeon 9800XT AGP cards.
> I have a scientific application in mind for them that requires fast
> rendering on large screens (2560x1600).
> What would be ATI's best of the AGP line?
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:28 am
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On 06.09.2010 03:43, * Orson Cart:
> I have been given several workstations that are a few
> years old. They are still quite useful (heaps of RAM, RAID SATA,
> low-noise power supplies etc.) but have Radeon 9800XT AGP cards.
> I have a scientific application in mind for them that requires fast
> rendering on large screens (2560x1600).
> What would be ATI's best of the AGP line?

If I were you I wouldn't sink any money into a new AGP card any more.
You didn't mention *what* workstations you have but the last
workstations with AGP slot were from 2004 (which is 6+ years) and mostly
used CPUs based on the slow, hot and powerhungry P4 architecture (some
also used 1st generation Opterons). The available new AGP cards are
either very old and slow by todays standards (Nvidia Geforce 7) or are
often troublesome in their driver support (ATI/AMD).

You also didn't mention what application you want to run but if it uses
any form of 3D acceleration or is CPU or I/O intensive then it is highly
unlikely you can run it at 2560x1600 on such old and slow computers.

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