Price of X800 xl AGP

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Right now, I'm using an ATI 9800 Pro, but I have games
that might look better on the ATI X800 AGP. It's going
to be a couple years at least before I build another system, and I'd like to
try to improve the one I have now.
It is AMD64 3000+, 1 gig ddr400, SATA 160, and
will run Far Cry on all high settings except AA set to
medium, or the frame rate takes a hit. I've up'd the
settings on this system carefully while monitoring the
game, and I'm topped out. So, I would like to try the
X800, but I don't want to pay $300 for a card that
is clearly on its way out. When should I expect the
price of the X800 / AGP card to drop to about $200?
I figure by then I can sell my 9800, and get the X800
for a reasonable price.

johns
 
johns said:
Right now, I'm using an ATI 9800 Pro, but I have games
that might look better on the ATI X800 AGP. It's going
to be a couple years at least before I build another system, and I'd like
to try to improve the one I have now.
It is AMD64 3000+, 1 gig ddr400, SATA 160, and
will run Far Cry on all high settings except AA set to
medium, or the frame rate takes a hit. I've up'd the
settings on this system carefully while monitoring the
game, and I'm topped out. So, I would like to try the
X800, but I don't want to pay $300 for a card that
is clearly on its way out. When should I expect the
price of the X800 / AGP card to drop to about $200?
I figure by then I can sell my 9800, and get the X800
for a reasonable price.

johns
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Prices will drop when the R520 comes out. Was expected soon but has now
been delayed
 
Prices will drop when the R520 comes out. Was expected soon but has now
been delayed
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One option may be to swap to a PCI-E motherboard and X700, selling the
9800 whilst it still has value and wait to switch video card when the
time is right.
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i am sitting here with two PC's (two online mmorg (FFXI) feeds). both have HP f1903
displays.
one PC is x800pro agp, the other is xtasy x850xt pci-e (HP m7170n).

imho: you should follow that guys advice to spend you money on a pci-e upgrade and when
the x850 gets to a price you want to pay - go for that. I have my 9800pro's sitting here
in a drawer and I feel like putting the x800pro in the same drawer !!
the 850 is so much more card !! i think i got my entire 499.00 usd worth !! and i am
saving for another x850.

x800pro is in 3.2 ghz P4, 2 gig mem.
x850xt is in P4 3.0ghz "D" dual core, 2 gig mem.

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: Right now, I'm using an ATI 9800 Pro, but I have games
: that might look better on the ATI X800 AGP. It's going
: to be a couple years at least before I build another system, and I'd like to
: try to improve the one I have now.
: It is AMD64 3000+, 1 gig ddr400, SATA 160, and
: will run Far Cry on all high settings except AA set to
: medium, or the frame rate takes a hit. I've up'd the
: settings on this system carefully while monitoring the
: game, and I'm topped out. So, I would like to try the
: X800, but I don't want to pay $300 for a card that
: is clearly on its way out. When should I expect the
: price of the X800 / AGP card to drop to about $200?
: I figure by then I can sell my 9800, and get the X800
: for a reasonable price.
:
: johns
:
:




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I'm looking at that seriously. I can do it for $85 for the
new mobo from Mwave.com, but the PCI-E is whopping
expensive ( X800XT ). I can trade back to ATI and
get $50 off the AGP which is about $330 right now.
Still kind of steep. I feel sure the AGP is going to come
down .. or at least get dumped when the next generation
cards come out.

johns
 
From a performance standpoint your proposed upgrade would be pointless (as
no real gains would be realized with that video card over a 9800 Pro) but at
least he'd be ready for the latest PCIe vid-cards.
 
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