BFG GeForce 7800 GS OC 256 MB GDDR3 AGP Graphics Card

List Price: $258.29

Features:

• Buy with confidence!
• Takes the full-throttle graphics power of the GeForce 7800 GS graphics processing unit (GPU) and overclocks it

Customer Reviews:

Best AGP Card [Posted on 2007-05-20]
Have it for more than 3 months and it has worked perfectly, great card, the best for AGP!

Blue Light Special... [Posted on 2007-06-22]
I upgraded my August 2003 Alienware computer from a 256mB GeForce FX 5900 Ultra to this card based upon more than one recommendation that this was the fastests AGP card made. Even though though this means that the technology is still old in terms of currently available products. Once the PCI-e standard became established, and eventually SLI technology became the mainstay, AGP products quickly became the dinosaurs of PC technology. While I still feel there is still some get and and go in my old mule of a PC, this change of video standards made my PC virtually obsolete. There is little chance I can get a lot more use out of it, when this is the last stop on the upgrade trail.

Still, I am surprised at the level of improvement. I have noticed some lag time when rendering scenes with a lot of depth (while panning the camera), but nothing that seems to be directly tied to performance. It is much improved. I got this based on someone else's recommendation about its performance with Neverwinter Nights 2. I found the performance to be pretty decent, and a HUGE improvement over my previous card. I was still somewhat surprised that this game didn't run better, but it is infamous for having steep system requirements. Jade Empire, however, ran perfect, and technically, it has the SAME system requirements.

I have seen recommendations as to upgrading RAM, but I have not yet done so, since I don't know if there are any special requirements for the latest RAM to function properly on my 2004 board. I just haven't spent that much time on that, hoping that the card would fix all that aills me...

Still, the performance has been good, though not blazing, and the little blue light which comes on while it is running is cool, though I doubt it helps performance any. This is a great deal on a good card, and I would recommend it for any AGP user, with the caveat that this card is far from new technology-wise, and the performance may not be enough to do wonders with the latest games... but it more than enough to get you bye.

Not so fast... [Posted on 2007-07-14]
There are some great reviews for this card here but beware not everyone may have the same experience. I bought this card as a final upgrade for my aging AGP motherboard. I use it for flight simulation and online ATC activities. These type environments tend to push the envelope a bit further than first person shooters.

Overall the card DOES improve the performance and graphics, no argument there, but...

The video driver released for this card was causing problems with the display of the flight simulator cockpit right out of the box. It took nVidia over 6 months to release a driver update that "patched" the problem but the driver is still having issues. Even though that problem has been squelched there are issues with "white outs" depending on the weather conditions simulated in the game. On another program used for online ATC simulation the program would crash randomly to the desktop when loading the radar (an error would popup related to the video).

Other games I played worked with little problem. So if you just want to enjoy a first person shooter than you might get by, but I highly recommend you go with an ATI brand because the technical support at nVidia concerning this problem has been nill to nothing! I always got great technical support from ATI.

All of the above problems disappeared when my older (and trusted) ATI card was reinstalled with the current Catalyst drivers.

I knocked off two stars because of the driver issues and the nVidia technical support issues.

Games are now playable at full detail [Posted on 2007-11-22]
My son's Age of Empires III, Empire Earth II, Sid Meier's Pirates, Star Wars Empire at War PC games now play great on his older Compaq Presario SR1550NX (2gb RAM) with this 256mb AGP video card. He uses full detail on his games. If this is your first graphics card upgrade, be prepared for fan noise from the video card's fan.

Last call for AGP! [Posted on 2008-02-03]
Game settings that choked my old card (GeForce FX5950 Ultra 256MB) to 5fps now go at tolerable 20fps with this card, while my computer's 3DMark05 score with the old card was 1262 (LOL!) and flew up to 5457 when the BFG GeForce 7800 was swapped into the system. With the old card, my comp was in the basement at the 9th percentile among 277,000+ systems tested, and went to the 57th percentile overall. It was in the top 10% of P4 systems. Basically, the GeForce 7800 took my old system as high as an AGP/P4 system can go.

No compatability issues so far (3 weeks of use) on 15 or so games. I'm pleased that I can run games such as Oblivion, Guild Wars, Eve, and FlightSim at detail settings that are satisfying.

BFG recommends a minimum of 400 watts power, which is exactly what I have. No problems feeding the GeForce 7800 even though I have plenty of other stuff running.

I was hesitant at first as to whether or not I should sink more money into my 5 y.o. system, but now I'm glad I made the purchase. My comp is viable once again for mainstream gaming.

(My system: 400W PSU, 2.8GHz P4, crappy Intel MoBo, 4GB RAM, 2 SATA HDs w/fans, 2 optical drives, 3 case fans, Win XP Pro/SP3).

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