OCC has published a new review of the Sapphire HD 2600Pro AGP
"The Sapphire HD 2600Pro is not a card that will break any benchmark records, nor will it allow you to crank up all the visual goodies. What it will do (and quite well) is allow a large segment of consumers the ability to stretch out the usefulness of their current systems. In today's day, where you are overloaded with marketing and pushed into upgrading for no other reason than to have the latest greatest hardware, ATI has come to the rescue of the majority of users. The HD 2600Pro put up a good fight and with some tweaking, you can find a happy medium between image quality and performance. While we didn't look at any DX10 games today, rest assured OCC will take a look at them very soon on this platform."
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Sapphire HD 2600Pro AGP Review
Nice read for those still using an older AGP system, which there has to be a lot
One note I need to make here is the CON listed in the review about not having the latest drivers, hmm, I downloaded the latest Catalyst 7.10 for my X1600 Pro AGP card and it works just fine too
"Driver Packaging Version
8.421-070928a-053250C-ATI
Catalyst® Version 07.10
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 6.14.10.6727
2D Driver File Path
System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Video/{4161A371-6892-406C-8979-EFF49A15C587}/0000
Direct3D Version 6.14.10.0532
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.6956
Catalyst® Control Center Version 2007.0928.2231.38404"