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AGP video card experts, what would you recommend for this system?

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First post, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2022-06-19, 22:31

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I have an AOpen i855GME motherboard (AGP 4X) with a Pentium M 780, two gigs of DDR, and right now it has an X1650 and the 3D Mark 2001 score is around 19,500. Right now I have it running Windows 2000, but I might switch to XP or set it up to dual boot XP. What video card would you use if this were your system?

After watching many YouTube videos about older computer hardware, YouTube began recommending videos about trains - are they trying to tell me something?

Reply 1 of 5, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2022-06-20, 15:24

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Radeon X1950 Pro.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 2 of 5, by paradigital

Posted on 2022-06-20, 15:58

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Pentium M has pretty decent IPC, you want the absolute fastest AGP card you can find IMO, which leaves you with GeForce 7800/7900/7950 or Radeon HD3850.

Reply 3 of 5, by agent_x007

Posted on 2022-06-20, 16:05

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-06-20, 15:24:

Radeon X1950 Pro.

Seconded, X1950 Pro is best choise. Try to get 512MB version if possible.
Don't bother with GF6/7.

Reply 4 of 5, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2022-06-20, 16:45

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Thanks for the suggestions. I'm looking for something more powerful without overshooting the rest of the system and there are two votes for the X1950 Pro. I will update this thread when/if I get one.

After watching many YouTube videos about older computer hardware, YouTube began recommending videos about trains - are they trying to tell me something?

Reply 5 of 5, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2022-06-20, 17:37

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paradigital wrote on 2022-06-20, 15:58:

Pentium M has pretty decent IPC, you want the absolute fastest AGP card you can find IMO, which leaves you with GeForce 7800/7900/7950 or Radeon HD3850.

It does, but it's a bit limited by this board as it doesn't have dual channel memory, and the memory bus is 166 MHz. I imagine the Asus P4P800 with a Socket 479 adapter performs measurably better with this same CPU.

After watching many YouTube videos about older computer hardware, YouTube began recommending videos about trains - are they trying to tell me something?

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