GeForce 7600 is Last of nVidia's AGP Line

Company Quietly cease's production of higher-end AGP GPUs

from Stardock Forums

The GeForce 7600 appears to be the final AGP capable card produced by the GPU giant, nVidia. After an extensive search of the company's website and a thorough combing of reputable retailers, no model of card past the powerful, but aging, 7600 could be found with an AGP interface. For those of us still running on computers built before 2004, this spells trouble. Anyone seeking to upgrade to anything higher than a mid-range card is in for a bigger bill than originally expected. While ATI Radeon may still be creating such cards, it seems that nVidia has gone exclusively over to PCIe. Anyone with further information, or facts that may refute this, please post here.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Well, honestly, if you're still running an AGP mobo you're not likely to have an excess in other specs besides video card anyway. So a full rebuild is probably in order anyway.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Kryo's right. A good videocard alone just doesn't cut it. Dropping a little extra for a new computer will get you more bang for your buck, and it will last a whole lot longer.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Building a new system next summer. Current machine is running Pentium 4 3 GHz, 2 GBs RAM, 120 GB HD, 22" WS Monitor. Can run anything save Crysis on full specs.

Reply #4 from PolMach Forums Top
Yeah AGP is gone. Gotta hope my rig last at least one and a half years so I can finish up my masters and start making some money :). New computer is on my list of things to get once I get out of school. It only follows a Grill and Workout equipment. In the meanwhile, roman noodles here i come!
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
You can run anything save Crysis on full specs? Somehow I doubt that.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That's good. In with the new and out with the old. It's the way technology works. But you can be comfortable in the fact that PCI-E will last for quite a long time. I expect a successor to arrive at earliest 2015 since technology
Sure it's a bit annoying and troublesome with selling of your old computer but 1 post on your local hardwareforum, ebay, tradera and blocket will suffice.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I thought Nvidia said cpus don't matter?

I'd kinda expect them to make $800 agp cards if thats true.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
Actually the 7800GS series is the last big AGP card made.
The 7600 is not as fast as the older 78GS.

You can still find the older 78GS' here and there but they are very rare.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
Yeah, I have the 7600GT (PCIe) so I'm barely still ok.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have only 2 PCI slots in my computer (Dell's stupid designers don't seem to think you'll ever need to upgrade), one of which has a video card, and the other of which has a sound card. Something tells me my video card isn't actually doing my system much good plugged into THAT. What is really sad though is that my computer is only a year and a half old...
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
I have only 2 PCI slots in my computer (Dell's stupid designers don't seem to think you'll ever need to upgrade), one of which has a video card, and the other of which has a sound card. Something tells me my video card isn't actually doing my system much good plugged into THAT. What is really sad though is that my computer is only a year and a half old...

You have a PCI video card? I haven't seen one of those since before PCI-E came out... and even then were rare low end cards.

What model is it?
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
@Kaloonzu: Actually the best AGP card you can get right now is the HD3850, although I see it as if your motherboard has an AGP slot, it belongs in a museum. AGP is limited by its narrow bandwidth, moving to PCI 2.0 will benefit you entirely, also open you to every new video card released.
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
You can build a pretty nice PC for around 600 bucks now, if you still use AGP on an old Mobo learn 2 save , and get a new PC :d
Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top
I got a AMD 3.2 duel but only 2 slots for plugins on the mtherboard so im in a pickle cus i dont need new any thing but hte videocards fan takes up the second slot so i cant plug any thing in, so i do need a new motherboard, but then id have to search and search for one that cand run my cpu.
Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I recently purchased an HD 3850 AGP card. Even on my old single core P4 3.2GHz system it gave me quite a nice performance boost. I can play, for example, Oblivion on high now with 8x anisotrpic filtering and 4xAA.

I upgraded from an X850. If you already had an X1950 XT PE or the like though (or even a 7800 GS), you probably wouldn't see much benefit with this card. I fully expect it to be the last AGP card made.

I'm building a new system once Nehalem hits. This system, surprisingly, got me through the first multi-core era without having to skip games I wanted to play.