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The new Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro AGP became available in UK online stores just before Christmas and I was lucky enough to be able to grab hold of one. It may be a blessing to those who are not ready yet to move on to the PCI-Express platform. That may sound fine and dandy to those with a tower or desktop system, but what about Small Form Factor (SFF) owners, namely the Shuttle XPC?

In my previous post, my initial research led me to believe that the Leadtek WinFast 7600GT AGP would be the best solution for my Shuttle SB65G2 (with a G2 case). With the release of the Sapphire X1950 Pro AGP at only £30.00 extra, the answer has never been clearer. However, with it’s length almost covering an A4 sheet and the presence of two molex connectors, I was worried that I may have made the wrong choice. Have I?

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.