AGP VisionTek HD 2600 XT now available. Radiator approves.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:22:38 Fri, September 14, 2007

Apparently when our very own Radiator asked, "What's keeping them from releasing the HD 2600 XT AGP?" Newegg was listening (When aren't they listening? I bet they can hear my thoughts right now!). Now you can finally purchase an AGP HD 2600 XT from a trusted source. Huzzah!

Newegg VisionTek HD 2600 XT 512MB GDDR3 for $169.99

The card appeared on their site sometime between yesterday afternoon and this morning.

13 Comments

Friday, September 14, 2007 12:38:47 PM

anonymous
guest

Is it just me, or is that link dead?

I found it searching the egg though :D

Friday, September 14, 2007 12:44:14 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

Hahah! They listened to me . *cheers*

Friday, September 14, 2007 2:20:29 PM

anonymousD
n00b

and its got 512megs of uber fast memory :D

Friday, September 14, 2007 3:02:37 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

@anonymous All three links work for me.

Friday, September 14, 2007 4:02:49 PM

anonymous
guest

$170.00 BUCKS! Rip off.......I want a Nvidia 8600GT agp....where are they????

Friday, September 14, 2007 5:27:12 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

AGP variants always cost a hell of a lot more than their PCI-e counterparts .

Friday, September 14, 2007 5:53:01 PM

anonymousD
n00b

guys. the 8600/2600 are to be avoided unles u do hd stuff in ure htpc

Friday, September 14, 2007 10:46:28 PM

anonymous
guest

@anonymousD Not entirely, I just ordered up 2 2600 XT for Crossfire and am fairly please at the moment. Scoring 8k in 3DMark06, and running 191.3fps avg in CS:Sourse video stress test. Fear is even running at a modest 60FPS avg (Ok, so it's only 59) with 96% of the frames avove 40. And the best part is that both cards together only cost $200. Well, second best, the best part is they are blue and match the rest of the system.

Saturday, September 15, 2007 1:50:12 AM

anonymous
guest

Other trusted mongers such as buy.com have had 'em for three weeks. They have also offered both retail and system builder black boxes whereas newegg only offers black box. Anyway, pity they don't include the DVI-HDMI adapter.

Saturday, September 15, 2007 6:48:53 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

"guys. the 8600/2600 are to be avoided unles u do hd stuff in ure htpc"
Thanks for stating the obvious , mate .

@anonymous - Yeah , if you leave antialiasing off , the HD2k cards perform quite nicely .
But the 2600's and 8600's are crippled with a 128bit memory bus and the HD 2600's are even more crippled by the low amount of ROPs and TMUs . ( Well , the TMUs don't matter so much , but the ROPs do antialiasing processing ) .

Sunday, September 16, 2007 6:28:22 PM

anonymousD
n00b

good that u get it :D

im selling xxx versions of teh 8600 and people going nutz over them 'look, the memory runs at 2.2 ghz, that means it will kill your x1950xtx by a large margin...'
and for dx10 even 8800 dont cut it much lol.
meh.

how did selling get in there..hmm..was supposed to be seing :D i had two in sli and the performance per buck suked arse..badly :D

Monday, September 17, 2007 11:07:46 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

Could beat the X1950 XTX ? Not by a longshot .
And DX10 ? The current DX10 hardware should be enough , but there aren't any real DX10 games out there . The ones that do support DX10 , usually suffer a massive decrease in performance , but that's the game's problem , not the card's .

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:07:01 AM

arcademan10
guest

well this video card has been disabled from newegg. idk y it was though.

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