Some AGP Radeon HD 2000 series cards now available.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 02:51:20 Fri, August 10, 2007

Thanks to one of our anonymous commenters for bringing this to my attention. Circuit City and Best Buy finally have some AGP versions of the Radeon HD series available. I also looked at Newegg, CompUSA, Fry's, ZipzoomFly and TigerDirect but I found nothing at any of those retailers. Here is what I found:

Circuit City VisionTek HD 2400 Pro 256MB for $129.99
Circuit City VisionTek HD 2600 Pro 256MB GDDR4 for $179.99

Best Buy VisionTek HD 2600 Pro 256MB DDR2 for $179.99

The VisionTek HD 2600 Pro at Circuit City and Best Buy are identified by the same model number (A2600P256AGP) but Circuit City says the card has GDDR4 memory and Best Buy says it has DDR2 memory. The box pictures on both of the sites show that the card has DDR2 memory.

23 Comments

Friday, August 10, 2007 5:30:59 PM

anonymousD
n00b

hehe. ripping the folks still on agp..

Friday, August 10, 2007 11:26:30 PM

anonymouse
guest

Bad-mouthing AGP would be n00bish indeed. Older systems can now find new life as kick-arse HTPC's. Meanwhile, tards are stuck with PCIe 1.x while smarties build 2.0 systems as their primary. Lawls. :P

Sunday, August 12, 2007 12:33:19 AM

Wraithdagger
guest

Damnit VisionTek, still beating the dead horse with current generation cards. If they do this with HD 3000 I might have to go down there and strangle someone.

Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:05:10 PM

Juggalojosh798
guest

yo wraith what ever happened to you on the Gamefaqs Message board?

Sunday, August 12, 2007 11:58:12 PM

anonymous
guest

I guess the video card manufacturers realize that they haven't fully utilized the bandwith potential of AGP, and decided to release more cards in the AGP format.

Here I was thinking that AGP was offically dead. Apparently not.

Monday, August 13, 2007 7:00:57 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

Yay AGP cards . Damn , they are expensive and where the hell is the HD 2600 XT ?

Monday, August 13, 2007 11:54:56 AM

Mach5Motorsport
guest

HD2400Pro has only a 64 bit memory path?! wt? :(

Monday, August 13, 2007 12:46:55 PM

anonymousF
guest

Still holding my breath for a PCI HD2900XT!

Monday, August 13, 2007 5:42:33 PM

Mach5Motorsport
guest

Yep, AGP will still be breathing and PCIe 1.0 will be dead ;)

Monday, August 13, 2007 7:27:56 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

Lol... PCI HD 2900 XT ? ROFL
Lol... yeah ... 64 bit memory bus . A piece of crap .
The only HD 2K card , that can beat it's competition is the HD 2900 XT and it doesn't beat the 8800 GTS by such a large margin .

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 2:10:08 PM

anonymous
guest

^HAHAHA me too

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:39:11 PM

anonymousD
n00b

actually it kinda competes with the 640meg gts but doesnt win always :D problem is 1-price and 2-power consumption and maybe 3-heat? :D

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:45:29 PM

anonymous
guest

Only the 2400 Pro is slated for PCI. Should be pretty schweet. I wonder if its UVD could be used for video when along-side a PCIe or AGP card without such capabilities.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:25:02 AM

anonymous
guest

The circuit city 2600 agp cards are ddr2 only. Only other site listing agp cards is computers4sure and best buy but both are OOS as of now. I wonder what the other retailers are waiting for.

Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:19:26 PM

Mach5Motorsport
guest

wow. heck, all that matters is these cards are DX10 for AGP and PCI. All the "uber-experts" out there said there will never be a DX 10 card for anything other than PCIe. (bwahahaha) ;)

Friday, August 17, 2007 7:09:06 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

@anonymousD - desktop users shouldn't worry about power consumption and heat , because it doesn't matter performance-wise . Only laptop users should be worried about those things .
Price ? it's like 20 - 30 dollars more than the GTS . And it does outperform it .
Lol PCI ? Why on earth would they make a PCI card in DX10 ?

Friday, August 17, 2007 12:11:04 PM

Radiator
guest

It is easy to understand why there would be a PCI DX!) card. Many computer motherboards do not have AGP or PCIe video slots. Hard to believe, but true. The potential user base is still huge and is a no-brainer for Vision Tek to fill a need.

Friday, August 17, 2007 4:41:28 PM

Mach5Motorsport
n00b

Sorry Radiator. I mistakenly typed your name. :(

Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:06:39 PM

anonymous
guest

CC prices have been lowered to $115 and $140. Don't know if the coupon codes can be applied or if BB would price match.

Monday, August 20, 2007 3:22:25 PM

dvdivx
guest

PCconnection is listing the 512 xt and pro cards at $191 and $153. XT cards are 2 weeks out. Comuters4sure is listing 512 xt and pro cards at $193 and $157. Pro cards are in stock at both stores no ETA at computers4sure for the xt cards. All cards are Visiontek.

Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:40:15 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

DX10 cards are made for DX10 gaming . If you want a workstation PC ( that's what PCs with PCI slots are made for ) , then a X1300 or 6200 PCI would be enough .
I was already supprised they made AGP cards ( pleasantly supprised of course ) .

Monday, August 27, 2007 3:22:36 PM

Mach5Motorsport
n00b

DX10 cards are made for the Vista OS graphic capabilities. If users have a system capable, then there will be a DX10 compliant card available for them. Just when DX10 games will trully be available in large numbers is another matter entirely.

Friday, September 07, 2007 10:38:21 PM

BiohazardXBW
guest

well time to Swap my crap x700pro agp to a 2600pro

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