What was the top of the line 4X AGP Graphics Card back in the day and the rest in decending order...

CHEERS

more importantly, who cares?

S3 Virge

My first video card was a Voodoo 1 and it cost me $700...

Brutal :(

depends exactly when. I have a 4x agp gf2gts, I guess at one point it was "top of the line". At least I think it's agp 4x. I also have a diamond viper II (aka s3 2000 or some s***) and it's best used as a paperweight, or to fend off attackers.

puting old puter together for mate... though gave away vid card some time ago...
s3 virge.... i shall slip out and buy one!
NOT!

so why do you want to know what the top of the line card was, back in the day? Why not just get something new & cheap? Are you planning on rummaging around computer markets looking for a geforce 2 or something?

You mean they aren't still 4x?

I've got a Leadtek 4X AGP Ti4400 collecting some dust.

usually 8x agp card will run in 4x agp slots...

Prolly one of the best cars would have been a Ti4600 or that sortta thing.

3dfx voodoo

wait..

Are we counting 8X cards that would run at 4X? Of so, top one I can think of is the Ti4800, but didn't the 5x00s run at 4X? I'm tempted to say who cares, but it's already been done.

4MB Diamond Viper V330 (Riva 128) ftw. Yay for Quake 3 @ 512x384@20fps.

Every 8x card can run at 4x, so the best agp card would be the 1950pro agp or whatver that ati one is.

I have a 8x 7800GS. (Believe it runs at 4x).
I here there is going to be an AGP version of the 8600 too ?

Man that'd be slow, since it'd have to use a PCIe to AGP bridge.

I'm pretty sure the Geforce 4200ti and 4400ti were the hottest AGP4x cards, i'm pretty sure the 4600ti and 4800ti were AGP8x. I seem to remember some companies releasing 8x 4200ti's and 4400's, can anybody else varify this?

Anyway, like it was said before, AGP 8x video cards will run at 4x (but nothing lower). So the best card that will work in an AGP 4x slot would have to be the geforce 7800gs or whatever the best radeon AGP card is.

i still own a 8x agp Geforce 4 MX 440

That $700 orchid righteous 3d working on the quake menu was certainly a religious experience...

Although to be honest my $200 purchase of a 1MB VESA local bus isa card allowing me to play fullscreen smooth doom probably takes the cake for pure awesomeness and wow-immersion

back in the day

First video card I ever bought was a PCI MX440 for $80 from Discshop, back in the day (2002)...

... yeah, I haven't been this awesomely leet for very long.

Are we doing someones homework research for them?

Every 8x card can run at 4x, so the best agp card would be the 1950pro agp or whatver that ati one is.

SHLAAAAAAAAP !


unfortunately this is not so :(


It pains me to see that some IT Retailers are *still* selling entry-level systems with AGP-mobos that are nigh-impossible to upgrade with AGP cards atm *cough* crappy Gigabyte 945 mobos *cough*.

My first video card was a Gerforce 3 Deluxe from the disc shop.

$750 later.

My first video card was a Voodoo 1 and it cost me $700...

you got ripped off dude. i bought a diamond monster voodoo1 brand new not long after they came out & it was around $350. my first vidcard was the 2mb s3 virge... fo' real. :p

^^

oops, $350 sounds more like it.
that one really overclocked too - stock it did about 35fps@512x384, but you could tweak it and quake to well over 60fps!

Mine was a voodoo 2 for $495

i think it was 12meg one.

was in complete and utter awe when i saw gl quake for the first time

Heh ... glquake on an s3 virge was sad yet funny.
4meg voodoo1 was my first real 3d card. My pair of creative v2-12megs cost me $1400 but they did last for ages (yeah, I am still trying to justify spending that much on videos card 10 years later).

All 8x cards should run at 4x in theory, though I've come across a couple of motherboards that wouldn't post with 8x cards

My banshee is still going hard.. first 2d/3dfx card out...

i still go a gf4 running cs source ftw of 20fps!!