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In my previous post I wanted to get the best AGP video card for my Shuttle SB65G2 and narrowed it down to the Leadtek WinFast 7600GT AGP. As also mentioned, there were two problems; the availability of the Leadtek card, and the imminent release of the Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro AGP.

The Sapphire cards have just been released here in the UK and online stores are currently selling them for about £150.00. This card would be ideal since it retains the single-slot-solution condition needed for use in a Shuttle unit.

I’ve recently sold off all my desktop machines in favour of the Small Form Factor (SFF) ones. I’m currently in possession of a Shuttle XPC SB65G2 with an Intel 865PE chipset running on 2Gb Kingmax PC3200 DDR memory (maxed out) and an Intel Prescott 3.4Ghz (fasted processor it will take). Despite the fact that it’s a rather ageing Pentium 4 (Core 2 Duo just came out two months ago) machine with an AGP 8x slot, it still performs relatively well. It had a Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro in it, and by “had”, I mean I sold it off on eBay very recently in hope to gather some cash for its successor.