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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS For AGP Launched

Posted by Zonk on from the upgrade-now-and-play-fear dept.

Spinnerbait writes "Although new system sales with AGP slots are almost non-existent these days in the consumer desktop space, there is a still a fair aftermarket demand for upgrades in the retail area where AGP enabled motherboards abound. Although PCI Express is the mainstay interface for most new cards from graphics giants like NVIDIA and ATI, NVIDIA unwrapped a fairly high end card dubbed the GeForce 7800 GS, in an AGP variant. 16 pixel shaders engines and DX9 SM3.0 graphics compliant hardware in the latest GPU architecture from NVIDIA now available in AGP."

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  1. I'd prefer a review that compared it w/ ATI x850 by aapold · · Score: 4, Informative

    You know, an actual competing product instead of an older product from the same company...

    Say, like, the one at Anandtech.

    Amazing how different a part can come across in two different review/tests... I mean, Anand still shows it worthy, on the strength of being a little cheaper than the x850, but it is in perspective. The review linked makes it look like an AGP renaissance...

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  2. Re:Solaris, Linux, BSD drivers? by l33t.g33k · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can probably check for Linux/BSD/Solaris drivers from Nvidia's website. The drivers you can find here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

    Currently they only have Windows XP/2000 drivers for it, but I would imagine that the Linux etc. drivers will be available soon.

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  3. Bullshit. by EvilCabbage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're assuming only three and four year old machines have AGP slots?

    For a great number of reasons my most recent PC ended up with an AGP slot, it's less than 12 months old. This kind of card may just be a worth addition.

    Hell, out of a dozen or so associates I can only name one that has a PCIE graphics setup.

  4. Other reviews/articles by karvind · · Score: 4, Informative
    Tomshardware

    Anandtech

    Techreport

    Neoseeker

  5. Re:Solaris, Linux, BSD drivers? by GweeDo · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are already out

    Nvidia has always been good about getting Linux drivers out for desktop parts.

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  6. Re:Why is there such a big push to PCI-E anyways? by HoneyBunchesOfGoats · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's an improvement over AGP in many ways. PCI-E is a fast bi-directional point-to-point bus, so that enables neat things like multi-card SLI (multiple graphics cards rendering different parts of the same image for increased performance; they can talk to each other over the bus without having to go through the chipset first). Also, from what I understand, PCI-E is much easier to implement electrically than parallel protocols like AGP & PCI; therefore, it's cheaper for both card makers and motherboard makers to implement. Finally, the PCI-E graphics card slot can deliver a good deal more wattage through the connector than AGP can.

  7. A link for more reviews and comments by tayhimself · · Score: 3, Interesting
    http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=280 16/ has links for a number of reviews along with informative comments.

    Basically this is a ho-hum card at a high price. You can get a PCIe 7800GT + Motherboard bundle from vendors like EVGA for around $350. The 7800GT is a 20 pipeline / 16 ROP card, while the 7800 GS is a 16/8. Its no contest which is faster. You can use your old DDR and CPU with the new MB making it a no brainer to avoid the 7800GS.

    1. Re:A link for more reviews and comments by ocbwilg · · Score: 4, Informative

      Basically this is a ho-hum card at a high price. You can get a PCIe 7800GT + Motherboard bundle from vendors like EVGA for around $350. The 7800GT is a 20 pipeline / 16 ROP card, while the 7800 GS is a 16/8. Its no contest which is faster. You can use your old DDR and CPU with the new MB making it a no brainer to avoid the 7800GS.

      I may be mistaken, but those combo deals from EVGA are for Socket 939 Athlon 64 systems. If you don't have a Socket 939 CPU already, then you have to buy a new CPU, which adds about $200 to your price.

      Personally, I have been weighing a similar decision for some time. I have a Socket 754 Athlon 64 and an old 9700 AGP card. I have been eyeing the 6800GS AGP as an upgrade, but it costs around $230 while the PCI-E version can be had for about $195. After looking around, I found that you could get a decent Gigabyte-brand S754 PCI-E mainboard for around $65. So I could spend $230 on an AGP card that I won't be able to use if I ever want to upgrade my CPU/Mainboard, or I could spent $260 for a PCI-E version of that card and a PCI-E mainboard for my current CPU. Or a 7800GT for $295 and a PCI-E S754 mainboard for $65 comes out to roughly the price of the 7800GS. Those seem like no-brainers to me, but only because I have a CPU that could be re-used. If you have a socket A or socket 478 CPU, you wouldn't have those options.

  8. Nice card...but i dont think ill upgrade. by techmedic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This looks like a great card for someone with a AGP slot and a decent cpu to team up with the card, but if i did get this card it would be going in my game machine at the office. Just a AMD XP3000 which now has just a 5900 in it. All ive been doing is Guild Wars lately (when im working of course)and the game plays great on what ive got. This card will most likely be put into systems with slower CPU's and older motherboards and chipsets. Would be interesting to see a review that maybe showed how the card scales with a wide range of older and recent processors (didnt check any other reviews other than the HH link). Lets say from the XP2000 on up to recent chips (on the AMD side). Just som people know that they wont be wasting there money by tossing this card in there older machine.

  9. Re:I'd prefer a review that compared it w/ ATI x85 by Ryan+Amos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Welcome to 2 years ago. The Athlon 64 is the best desktop chip available.

    But these days desktops are only about 50% of the market, and AMD really has nothing to compete with in the portable market. It's starting to shape up as AMD = desktops and servers; Intel = compact desktops (iMac) and laptops.

    The only reason Intel has a presence in the desktop market is Dell. Just wait until Dell gives in; AMD is currently building their new corporate HQ in Austin about 10 miles down the freeway from Dell's in Round Rock (RR is a suburb of Austin.) It's only a matter of time.