I need a high-end AGP CARD that's quiet SOON. I have a noisy hercules ati 9800 pro that i damaged by putting a thermalright v-1 ultra heatsink on (i dont know how). Anything that is better than a 9800 pro 128mb should do OK. Mainly I play CS1, bf2, warcraft3 and soon to be civ 4. I am mainly looking for quiet but it needs to be as good as an ati 9800 128mb pro that are currently ~228. I am looking at the 7800 gs and if any of them are quiet that would be SPECTACULAR. i NEED agp 4x/8x and DVI. Thanks for any input
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I need a high-end ~300 nvidia AGP card that's quiet TODAY
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I think all the 7800GS will be about the same in terms of being quiet. If the stock cooler is still to loud you could always get a quieter after market cooler.
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The 7800 GS is the tops right now for AGP--in reading up on them it's the only AGP card with the 3.0 Shader Model thingie.
Another thing that I learned ist that heat was a big issue with the 6800 series. The 7800 series isn't a ton faster than the 6800's, but it does have image quality refinements and it runs cooler. Also, they're right on your budget. There's one advertised in the CompUSA circular for $300, or you can get one online for about the same money. The BFG is at Best Buy for $350 or you can get it for about $305-$310 at newegg or ZZF.
Another thing that I learned ist that heat was a big issue with the 6800 series. The 7800 series isn't a ton faster than the 6800's, but it does have image quality refinements and it runs cooler. Also, they're right on your budget. There's one advertised in the CompUSA circular for $300, or you can get one online for about the same money. The BFG is at Best Buy for $350 or you can get it for about $305-$310 at newegg or ZZF.
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I don't know about the 7800GS but the stock HSF that came on my 6800GS was a screamer. I would just plan on buying a Zalman or Silencer cooler along with it. If you're that concerned about noise, the stock one will probably be too loud no matter what.
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Well then you are reading lies lol, all 6 series cards have SM3.0, but only the 6800's have HDR, so that includes the 6200's/6600's/6800's, dunno who told you that ONLY the 7800gs supports sm3.0 :|, the 7800GS does have CineFX 4.0 tho, which is not to be confused with shadermodel 4.0 or anything, that's not out yet... cinefx 4.0 is the new transparent anti-aliasing, and subsurface scattering. You can read about it straight from the horses mouth at www.nvidia.com
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Well their website says that it's compatible with 7800 series PCI-E cards. It doesn't mention AGP. I'd guess that the layout is probably rather different with that AGP bridge chip, but I don't know for sure.
I did fill in the support question form on their site. When I get a response, I'll post it here.
I did fill in the support question form on their site. When I get a response, I'll post it here.
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nothing more to say here -- 7800GS wins hands down. quiet and everything you want (buddy has it, now i want it instead of 6800GS, but too much for me!)
