AGP Video Cards

The name of this article says it all. You have to enter on the Amazon site and while you are there, check the Search button, where you will write “AGP video cards”. You will find many results in the search results list, but you will take in consideration the first one.

Ok, after you have reached to this point, it means that you are at the same level where I am right now. And I read about the EVGA GeForce DDR2 AGP graphics card by EVGA. The price of this card is as you can see it as well, of $45.

But let’s see the technical details of this AGP video card. If you want to see some other AGP cards, check this article, where I presented another one. The technical details of this card start with this description: AGP 8x. The video card has 6200 LE, that function at a speed of 300 MHz. You cannot compare this speed to the speed of a processor. This is the speed of the images that are presented on the screen. The DDR2 memory has 512 MB. This is good, but it can be improved. Now, there are video cards with larger amounts of video memory. The card supports the Microsoft DirectX 9.0 driver. Open GL 2.0 is another feature that is supported by this video card. The weight of the video card makes it perfect for any laptop, only 12 ounces. The shipping weight would be of only 1 pound, because it will be attached the whole package that is supposed to protect the video card during transportation. 71 customers consider that this video card is worth 4 stars out of 5.

The GeForce chipset means that this is a powerful video card and you can use it without a problem on a gaming computer. The product comes with one year warranty, but you can get also the second year of warranty for free, if after you buy the video card, you register it on the evga.com site within 30 days from its purchase. You all know that GeForce is a brand of NVIDIA, so I guess that you can tell by now that this AGP video card that is available on Amazon and not only, benefits of the NVIDIA architecture, which is unified, as we can see on the Amazon site, in the Product Description section. This is not all, you will benefit of a TV encoder, that is great for those who are addicted to TV shows. And when they are not seen on YouTube, this encoder is the solution. The effective rate of 1064 MHz makes this product a perfect gift for a person that you know he has a computer, but with a poor video card. And for 45 dollars, I think it is more than a bargain.

AGP TV Video Cards

Published by warepin, on July 11th, 2011, in the categories: Video Cards

AGP stands for Accelerated Graphics Port and it is a standard in the creation of the video cards or graphics cards. In my quest of finding an AGP TV video card, I have found the Visiontek 400518 Radeon HD 3650 graphics card, that allows the user to connect the computer to a TV.

Let’s see what are the technical specifications of thisAGP video card. The interface type is obviously AGP, while the interface speed is of 8x. The connectors that allows the actual connection to a TV are in order: the VGA port, the S-Video port and the DVI port. The graphics card supports multiple monitors. The chipset is created by ATI and it is a Radeon model. The type of the graphics card is mainstream. This is a type that is not only used when it comes to computers, but to video cards as well.

The maximum number of the monitors included is of 2. In my opinion, it is enough. The user needs to be connected on both devices at the same time and I think that 2 is the maximum number for the human eyes as well. Nevertheless, I have found central units that were connected to 3 monitors at the same time. The maximum resolution offered by this video card is of 2560x1600. This is a digital resolution and I guess that you imagined it by now that this type of resolution can be seen only on a TV, not on a computer. The video memory type is of DDR2 and the whole amount of memory is of 128 bits. The supported APIs are represented in fact by only one: DirectX 10.1. The video output of the video card uses the DVI standard. The minimum PSU wattage requirement is of 300 watts.

Regarding video cards, we have plenty of articles on our site. You can read for example,this article, where some of the best graphics cards in the world are described. This article is about the NVIDIA video cards. This manufacturer is always taken into consideration when you build your own computer. Nevertheless, the Visiontek video card, that I presented in this article, should be an option, because you have seen that this graphics card has a lot of options. Those interested in playing games on their computers, more than just watching movies or seeing how the photos appear on the screen, should get an NVIDIA card, because these ones are the best for these tasks. The rest of the cards available on market are good for almost any activity, except the gaming one. The games are perfectly seen on an interface based on the NVIDIA technologies.

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