Any recommendations for an AGP 8X graphics card?

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Without laughing too hard if you can help it.

I recently swapped computers with my other half, its an elderly but still mostly more than adequate hp workstation with a pair of 2.8GHz Xeons and 4 Gb of RAM which fair zips along running Windows 7, the sticking point being that the vintage motherboard only has an AGP slot - it currently has a 'modern' AGP 8X GeForce 6200 with 512MB RAM plus another 256MB shared memory - enough for t' interweb, casual games, office applications etc but a bit lightweight for stuff like Second Life (which is how I ended up with it - she plays, I don't) and World of Warcraft.

Does anyone know of any cards which would beef it up a bit, or am I already pushing it?

For 3D?

The Radeon 9800Pro is always a fantastic, classic performer (far better than the nVidia 6200!)

Holy modern AGP, Batman! Check out this Radeon 4650!

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6438898&CatId=3670

Oh! And the even-better Radeon 4670!!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161337&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=6146836&SID=otbknkj6hy0m

cheers - the second one looks like the kind of thing I had in mind. Now to find one in the UK for reasonable money...

At least you have two possible brand/models to hunt for! Their PCIe equivalents are cheaper, but that's the price to pay for keeping all that other old-but-good stuff!

Just keep it relatively cheap... a new mobo, i5 3470 processor, and 8GB DDR3 would still be very affordable, far faster than your 8 cores of old Xeons, and even the free Intel HD4000 video would run circles around what you already have... even coming close to the Radeon 4650 we talked about.

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to keep old stuff going.

Instead, keep your eyes open on used buy/sell forums where you could snag any number of AGP cards REALLY cheap!!