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Re: AGP Graphics card for older PC to improve YouTube?
« on: December 24, 2013, 11:12:10 AM »
I got the 3850 on a old 3GHz socket 478 agp computer but before I got my hands on it I uses the PCI version of the geforce 8400gs and even on the PCI buss it did a decent job on old computers for a low price and many  (most) version are passive.

So to get away cheap try getting the 8400GS.
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Re: AGP Graphics card for older PC to improve YouTube?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2014, 10:00:57 AM »
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Hey!  I found an old computer in the garbage with the following AGP card in it:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BFGR57256LE-OC

(specs at the bottom of the page).

Would this be any improvement over the motherboard Intel chip graphics (intel 865G chipset)?  I can't find out much about this chipset, except that it was released around the same time as the AGP graphics card linked to above, and had something to do with Intel's "Extreme Graphics 2", whatever that is.

I think I found some specs on it here:
http://ark.intel.com/products/27707/Intel-82865G-Graphics-and-Memory-Controller

It's hard to do a comparison....not really knowing what some of these things mean.

The FX5700 is a lot faster then the integrated intel 865G but has no support for hardware acceleration on flash videos. But still a faster card and might be useful for other things :)
I have the 865G chipset on one of my 478 boards with a P4 3GHz also and it's rubbish.