This better be real! Cause it would be awesome!

i wonder , what's the price gonna be . if its low enough i'll buy it to replace my X1600 Pro and probably a new PSU .

I saw it in Compusa for 500$ But online it should be lower.

Correction it was the x1950 pro agp and the exact price was 449.99$

WTF when is this card going to come out!!!!!!!!

this is real graphic card..bravo agp

The price of this graphics card was 370$ at bhineka.com.

I bought one of these cards and ended up returning it. The performance was absolutely terrible. The fan was too close to the heatsink so it ended up touching it thus causing it to sound like a lawnmower. Secondly after adjusting the clock speeds to that recommended by GeCube, I ran an artifact test which came up with 2500 artifacts. Thirdly after dropping the GPU clock to the BIOS default of 500 the card overheated to 85 degrees and shut down. Not worth the time, hassle or the extra 500 points in 3d mark 05 imho. Save yourself some trouble and get the HIS Radeon X1950PRO. At least that card runs cool.

I owned this card and the performance is stellar. But I had to returned mine cause it overheated, the first batch of cards came defective, the problem was that the huge and heavy cooling system tends to loose contact from the GPU over time. This card will outperforms the X1950PRO easily, it has 33% more pixel pipelines, 25% higher clocks, and 25% more shader pipelines, so the performance increase can be that high when not CPU limited, otherwise, it should be minimal except in high resolutions.

Nick I think you got the same problem as UNiX did.

So this card wil be a future problem? Or they are a probelm (not trust) right now?

What is better? The 1950 Pro or 1950 XT? Give me an opinion.

X1950 XT is faster but the X1950 Pro has a better price/performance ratio .

If you wait until 6/30/2007 Sapphire are bringing a HD 2600XT AGP version DirectX 10 for an AGP slot. Get in there!!!!!!

may i know...
can i use the 1950 xt with power supply in 500 watt...and i use pentium 4 3.0 ghz...???

may i know...
can i use the 1950 xt with power supply in 500 watt...and i use pentium 4 3.0 ghz...???

Should work - mfr specs say 450W minimum

really that can be work in 500 watt ??

I want this card badly, but I keep hearing rumors about DX10 AGP cards in the works. Does anyone have concrete proof from either ATI or Nvidia?

BTW, I can't log in to post a comment here under my account...what's going on?

I have the card by GeCube, there's indeed a problem with the cooling, as I've read from most users though.
Like mine didn't even boot at first, then I added pressure on the cooler until it did.
But it was 70 degrees Celsius idle, later I remounted it correctly and added more pressure plus AS5 and it went to 40-45 idle.
Then it would also shut down the computer at higher settings, probably when hitting 80C.

Then I also still found bad performance in games it should be able to take easily.
But I'm currently trying to sort out the problem together with other people, and I'll update on it if I can get it or another one to work right.

To get it to be cooled right takes a slight modification, very cheap and simple.
But a Zalman-cooler-set might also be a great idea if you want.
Now, the performance still needs to be figured out...

Oh yeah, if you have Vista and DX10 support and all, one of the Radeon HDs might also be nice, even though I think they might not be as fast(?).
I'm sure a Sapphire or something would work straight away, but I think the X1950XT is the fastest card around if you can get it to work.
After another AGP, we all should continue on to PCIe.
Unless they find another improvement to AGP, but I doubt it.

I also found having a 3GHz P4 and sufficient RAM would still be ok in combination with this card or similar, but it shouldn't be (much) less.

And yes, it does require 450watts minimum, I believe for other configurations (PCIe?) it needs 550watts.
I got the ZM500-HP for this card and my system.

saw the box tought the agp part was a typo :D

I'd received the RMA about 4 months ago and I didn't have a problem with the card, the performance boost over my X800XT PE was awesome when not CPU limited, but the average boost was about 30% which is not right (Even with my P4 Extreme Edition 3.4GHz). I used to score 7,784 in 3DMark05 and with the X800XT PE I used to score 6,184. I upgraded the CPU to a Pentium M (2.26GHz oced to 2.6GHz) and now it can stretch it's legs up to 10,086 in 3DMark05. It needs a nice CPU or it will be severely bottlenecked, then better go with the X1950PRO or GT.

A pentium M is a laptop CPU , isn't it ?

@ UNiX:

So they've fixed the card's problems now? Since noone seems to want to make an AGP card faster than this one, I'm getting the feeling that I'll have to track one of these down...

X1950 GT is a budget card that can be clocked to match a Pro for alot less.

I found an error on the specs.

1950xt agp memory runs at 1400mhz (700ddr) not 1800mhz (900ddr), so memory bandwidth is 44.8 gb/s.