A fairly short time ago NVIDIA released the GeForce 6800 GS onto the market and not without success. This model graphics card is performing close to the GeForce 6800 GT, it's massively better than a GeForce 6600 GT or standard GeForce 6800, yet is offered at a seriously superior price tag.

Some consumers however felt left out, a rather big group of consumers that bought an AGP based PC over the past two years. They are a bit stuck, they really can't upgrade anymore as the world is evolving and moving into the PCI-Express graphics bus based PC. But where there is a gap in the market there's NVIDIA. Luckily for the AGP platform owners who are still happy with their system, but would like to crank up their graphics gaming muscle a little, there is now an AGP version of the GeForce 6800 GS. For roughly 250 USD you can get some really nice brute horsepower in your AGP based system.

To be honest, initially I was not planning an AGP based review as over the past year we upgraded all systems to PCI-Express. I had one system left and it's only a crummy old 3 GHz system so I doubted we could test such a GS card sufficiently as there would be no basis of comparison to other cards anymore. However the mob with a liaison to "the GodFather" in our forums revolted and demanded a review on this card. Hey we listen, I do not want to wake up with a chucked off dead horse head in my bed you know (Ed: For you Hilbert, we leave the crushed remains of your video card... the horror). And although this review will be limited from a super-duper high-end specification based graphics comparison we'd still like to show you what the AGP version of the GS can bring to your mid-range AGP system.