PowerColor Radeon HD 4670 1GB DDR3 AGP 8X Video Card AG4670 1GBK3-P

Pros: 1. Fantastic upgrade option for AGP based systems. 2. Relatively low power supply requirement. 3. Runs cool.

Cons: 1. Must use driver from Powercolor website, latest ATI drivers aren't compatible. 2. Higher cost than PCI-E version.

Overall Review: I built my 939/AMD-based computer system in July 2004. The original video card was a Radeon 9800. The 3dmark06 score was about 700. I upgraded to an NVIDIA Geforce 7600GT in February 2007 and the 3dmark06 score increased to about 3500. Using the Powercolor Radeon HD4670, the 3dmark06 score increased to about 8000. I'm still playing the same games over this period (Half Life 2, Counterstrike Source, Doom 3, Quake 4, IL-2, Guild Wars). While the games were certainly playable using the Radeon 9800, that was at 800x600 or 1024x768. With the addition of the Powercolor Radeon HD4670, I'm now at 1920x1200 on a 26" widescreen. Frame rates on the above games average above 60 fps at that resolution; achieving this was the aim of my upgrade. No video card in existence could have achieved this in 2004 when I built the system. My guess would be that newer games (e.g., Crysis) would be bottlenecked by the CPU, though performance might be adequate at lower resolutions.

Pros: This card absolutely pushes the ability of my AGP 8x PRO slot to its limit! Drivers work both on Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows 7 Pro (not beta). Gives the system a Windows Experience Index of 6.7 in both Desktop and Gaming Graphics (out of 7.9). Plays all games out there, including COD4, CODWAW, FSX, and BF2142 just to name a few that i have tried.

Cons: Was a bit tricky for the drivers to get installed on Win7 Pro, although that was not the card's fault.

Overall Review: Make sure to have a free power connector for this card, I realize that most AGP card motherboards may not have one free.

Pros: Easy to install; quiet (but audible) fan. Applications definitely render faster, and games are smoother than older card (Radeon 9550).

Cons: Price; AGP is already becoming a dated technology, so buying a nice card for an older motherboard (PCI-E 1.0 slot) is a bit of a toss-up.

Overall Review: I wouldn't say the difference is night and day; more like 8 AM and noon. Applications seem to be faster, and SageTV Placeshifter definitely renders TV better. However, some games are still a bit laggy (which is probably due more to the CPU and memory). Not a bad investment, but since AGP appears to be a dying technology compared to PCI-E, probably not a great long-term investment.

Pros: Well, its much smaller than my Sapphire 3850 AGP. It also runs quieter and I'm sure it uses less power.

Cons: Seems to perform less than my Sapphire 3850 AGP as of right now. Future drivers might change this obviously. Also, like that card, this one will end up needing hotfix drivers in the future. Niether ATIs standard 9.6 drivers, or their 9.6 hotfix drivers will install right from the download. Only one that works is the one off the CD.

Overall Review: You can install newer drivers though, if you put your cards registry information in the downloaded driver files.

Pros: Low cost, low power requirements, good cost/performance ratio

Cons: AGP card

Overall Review: This was a nice step up from my previous 7800GS with 256MB of video RAM. And Newegg's *standard* delivery got this to me overnight! Newegg's first-rate service and support will keep me coming back.

Pros: 1 simple Molex power connection. Big quiet fan, normal card length doesn't bump into anything.

Cons: None so far with the card. Blah, blah, blah AGP.

Overall Review: Upgrade from my X1950 Pro. Keeping this rig alive as long as possible with XP 32bit and still play left 4 dead 2 at a decent frame rate. Works with driver off disk, no problem but not with ATI's AGP hotfix 9.11 XP 32bit.

Pros: I was a little apprehensive about purchasing this video card, but there were not many cards left that still used the AGP slot and had on board memory greater that 512MB. I did not notice a significant difference is graphics speed from my previous card, but this card is largely for my daughters' computer. They are not heavy gamers. It appears to work well with Windows XP and the 400W supply on an ASUS mother board and cabinet.

Cons: None that I could see so far.

Overall Review: It was worth the price and saved me upgrading the motherboard/PC for now.

Pros: Very fast card for an AGP system.

Cons: After I uninstalled my nvidia display driver and had the ATI driver installed it just made my computer terribly slow. Reinstalled the OS fresh and had the same problem. I had to RMA it for a refund. Motherboard: Abit NF8-V Motherboard Memory: 2 Gigs DDR PC 3200 CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Power Supply: 431 W Operating System: Windows XP Professional 32 bit

Overall Review: To be honest it was silly of me to buy this card to begin with since my CPU would just bottleneck it before I could get it's true potential. I just liked the idea of it. I'll just throw down 600 and build a PCI-E 2.0 x16 machine I suppose.