ATI AGP cards

[_Deano]

Peeps,
Looking at getting an AGP card from ATi. I know that the bus is on it's last legs with PCI-E now here, but i can't justify spending £xxx on upgrading an older P4 model. I just want a newer card so that i can run 2 screen at the same time.
My current choices are the ATi X800 card and the ATi X1600 card both will have 512MB of vid memory, but i don't know which will be the better choice (both are the same price) I've seen the x1600 and it has a 128bit bus running at 800Mhz, but the x800 has a 256bit bus running at around 450Mhz (i reckon this could be clocked though).

Does anyone know which is the better card or know where i can compare these two models?

thanks

DJ

[neil_cardiff]

www.tomshardware.com or just google for a gazillion reviews.

>> Edited by neil_cardiff on Friday 26th May 10:21

[_deano]

thanks.
Well there's a surprise, i thought that the newer x1600 was quicker than the x800; how wrong was i.

[mattley]

What do you need it for, apart from multiple screens?

If you don't play games matrox offer solutions far superior to ATI.

[_deano]

nope it will be used for games as well
Just trying to squeeze a bit more life out of my computer before buying a Vista PC.

[pentoman]

Sapphire do a nice X800 card that has a massive heatpipe-type passive heating solution (actually there's a fan for when it's hot..) that is silent - handy as modern cards can be quite loud.

I have it. Decent card, can't run full graphics on the newest games but performance isn't bad at all.