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Recently I a very similar card, GeForce 7800 GS AGP card made by EVGA for only $20 + shipping (eBay item 300429875157). Why do I need it? Actually or work. My computer is a dual Opteron 275 (meaning both dual-CPU, dual-core) based on Tyan S2885. 4GB of memory and housing 9 disks [640 GB for operating system and /home + RAID made of 8 750GB, adding up to more that 5 TBytes of user space]. Running Mandriva Linux. Yes the machine is old, 3+ years (although CPUs and disks are newer than the remaining parts), but is is too well built and to expensive to give up. Video never been an issue, as long as screen resolution stayed 1600x1200, but six month ago I got a news LCD monitor, and my original FX5600 was simply not enough to drive it: I had to compromise. I can get the correct resolution, but at the expense of 3D acceleration. For some reason NVIDIA decided that this card cannot support 1920x1200, so there is no way I can get it while using NVIDIA proprietary driver. Linux open source driver supports 1920x1200, but it does tot support hardware acceleration, and besides some of my software requires and relies on NVIDIA Open GL libraries. I looked at my options and found that good candidates are 6800, 7300 and 7800 series. This card, 7800 GS is the last of the breed. It is rewarding, but picky and bumpy at first. At first it made my machine crash. And so did the BFG-made 7300 GS (the one with 512MB) I tried before. I was aware of some reports about AMD compatibility issues (especially with 6800, but could not imagine that video can make the machine to crash once a day (normally this computer us up and running continuously, sometimes up to 6 months between reboots. I also tried a 6800 with 128MBytes, and, paradoxically, it was stable -- the machine never crashed, but there were some delays in text rendering when I scroll too fast. All these are very best video cards among AGPs. But there are multiple issues and patience required before it starts working well. BIOS settings (AGP aperture, memory hole, etc -- I guess, BIOS defaults of my motherboar are not designed to handle these cards, and in retrospect, I believe that my 6800 was stable simply because ... it had too little memory -- only 128MB. BIOS default AGP aperture is 64. I guess, most gamers who use 32-bit operating system (Windows XP) do not have to go through all this -- after all there is no such thing like "memory hole" and MPRR mapping); Then driver (I ended up using not the latest, and even not one-before- the-latest, but actually a 173-series NVIDIA driver. More recent ones -- 192, 195-series, and the latest 256.35 actually give better performance, but under certain circumstances -- watching CNN-embedded movie flash-player plugin (64-bit available only as beta-version right now) -- freezes the computer. I guess there is a bug somewhere (most likely is Adobe flash, or nvidia driver or, in X-server). For some reason 173 driver is immune to it. However, after all this sorted out, this video literally flies: I can do GooleEarth flight simulator full screen, and it is very light and responsive. Also impressive is the way how this card is built and its quality of craftmanship: it is very heavy and look expensive. At first I removed the top cover of heat sink to inspect and clean it from dust (if any). It quite something. solid copper heat sink, with very massive backplate on the opposite side. It is also unexpectedly quiet.Read full review
These were $300 plus in 2005-2006. This has 256MB of AGP bandwidth to the cpu. I love the look of it. This often requires a power supply upgrade, with the pitfall to watch for: what matters is the 12 volt Amps at least 20, not the total wattage. I used a PSU with dual 12v 18A outputs no problem. DirectX 9 just fine except for latest games, which I don't care about anyways. What is cool is the high-end screensavers can run and of course DVDs. Memory bandwidth, graphics power and an Nvidia GPU are reasons to buy a 7800GS. This has the Nvidia PureVideo which was improved on for the 8800 card. However, the BFG 7800GS is notorious for being very troublesome - with not working in one PC and just fine in another. I can vouch for great difficulty in the process of booting up a (pre-owned) 7800 GS in an even older Dell circa 2003. However, BFG is out of business, so paying for servicing isn't worth it. Flashing the card's bios is at risk of creating a paperweight. However, newer high end AGP cards exist. See Nvidia 7950 (new). The AMD ATI 3850, 4850,etc with DirectX 10. It is telling that the 7900GS was released not long after. My experience is: when it worked, was great. Last it displayed was the first 10min. of Toy Story 3 at the maximum quality settings without a glitch. Next boot failed, and back to basic boring 6200. BFG 7800GS OC still LOOKS great with the clear case/silver emblem and massive copper heatsink. Summary - Worked GREAT. It should work in 2005 or later AGP computers with a quality PSU. Well known for glitches and returns for servicing until BFG closed down.Read full review
I bought this card because I needed a fairly powerful card to extend the life of some of my AGP systems. Pros: Fast and powerful, and runs cool even when overclocked thanks to the big fan and quality heatsink from BFG. Cons: Sounds like an incoming WWII bomber. This is simple enough to fix by cutting fan speed while working in 2d, and having it jump fan speed and clock rates while gaming. This card blows ATI Radeon out of the water because the architecture is more recent, and when you turn on heavy anti-aliasing and high resolutions, it performs better than equivalent cards -- both in pricing and in speed. ATI wins at low res and low details, this card comes back with a vengeance on high settings.
I liked how it was very easy to install, set up, and download new drivers to my computer. The price was a added bonus to the auction. Shipping was very reasonable and it arrived just as described and in tack with no problems or unsceen situations. The improvement over my previous video card, which was a Nvidia 7600 GT was impressive. I was able to reuse all my old PC set up and not have to modify or change any of the equipment that I already was using with my old PC. The suport from the manufacturer was also a pleasing situation that was easy to deal with and complete with out any difficulties. I had bought this specifically to play the new PC game Left 4 Dead 2. My old PC set up unable to see alot of the small special effects that the game had to offer. I actually had to turn down alot of the video options to get my PC to behave with the old 7600 GT card. With the new card I was able to turn up the video settings and see all of the special effects that I was missing. My PC set up is an AMD 64 X 2, 3000+, with 2 GB RAM and 1.160 Tera bytes of hard drive storage. I was also running a Lynksys 54 Wireless/wired router with a 10/100 ethernet card. I hope this help anyone who may want to install and use a video card like this as I thought this is a wothwile update to use on a old PC set up.Read full review
Very fast shipping This video card is great especially for older AGP slot PC machines. Pros: one of the best AGP cards from BGF NVidia, graphics speed is excellent, just have a decent motherboard processor, would suggest 3.0 or higher, dual core and up will make it super fast Cons: haven't found any as yet Overall I would recommend this product!
