With the advent of PCI-E graphics slot standard, AGP remained in the past. But many people use their older machines with AGP – centimentacs some feelings, some are users of expensive workstations or just want to better utilize your old computer to a second cottage, for children or as a gift to friends. In most of the more expensive computers with AGP slots have powerful processors such as Pentium 4 HT (2.80-3.20Ghz) or Athlon 3800 +. Produced at a non-commercial times, often outside of China, the older machines differ significantly in terms of quality and reliability of the new platforms. The only weak point of such a computer is outdated AGP video card. Good video cards for AGP slot is hard to find but still available on the market. While NVidia and its partners and declined to produce AGP video cards after 7th Series, ATI continues to be enjoyed by current consumer video cards with DX10 and SM 4.0 as the Radeon HD2600, Radeon HD3850, AGP, and expects to HD4xxx series of video cards. The most powerful AGP graphics card now, which is available on the market is 256-bit ATI Radeon HD3850, produced mainly from PowerColor and Sapphire. (more…)