Mobos with AGP and PCI-e

[Jimmy]

Are there any mobos that support both?

 

[Rugger]

<A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050131/index.html" target="_new">This article</A> says that there is. It's not AMD, but it does exist.

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[Crashman]

I have one. ALL of the boards with both types of slots CURRENTLY on the market don't really have AGP, they have a PCI slot connected to an AGP connector! With a HUGE performance penalty.

The ONLY chipset that supports both is the ULi M1695. I have a reference board here, retail boards should be comming in a month.

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[Crashman]

But that's not real AGP. I have the only board with both PCIe and full AGP8x. Retail boards comming soon.

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[Jimmy]

Sweet. Will Asus be releasing any for AMD chips?

 

[Crashman]

Supposedly only for the Asian market, because of brand loyalty in the Americas and Europe. The chipset is the ULi M1695, ULi just spun off of ALi. ALi's former memory controller issues have been solved by AMD, when the memory controller was moved to the CPU.

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[Crashman]

The AGP8x performance is well documented as being comparable to the native controller of nForce3 250 series chipsets.

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[Crashman]

If Jimmy can waste money on Intel, the electric bill to power it, and the cooling bill to make his room livable again, then Jimmy has the resources to toss his new 6800U AGP and get a 7800GTX!

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[Crashman]

Ooops, I should say, if Jimmy doesn't care about performance, he can get an Intel board with onboard graphics!

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[Rugger]

LOL!

Of course you were right about the AGP performance hit...Prozac said there was no such thing and I was just informing Jimmy to the contrary. I never said it was a good option right now, but it does exist.

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[Rugger]

Wusy - I would have raised the BS flag responded the same way. Ignoring a bad technology won't make it go away. Speaking out as consumers and technophiles is the best way to try and change to bring about change in the industry. Should I have said that the tech sticks in its current form - yes - but I'm not going to simply ignore it.

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[Turk]

Hi!
I think that Asrock had a socket 939 board at Computex that is based on the new ULi 1695 chipset. It supports both PCI-express and real VGA 8X. Read more on the following links

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2005/computex2005/day0/p1.htm

and http://www.asrock.com/news/20050530.htm

I hope this can be of any help 2 U.

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[Jimmy]

Yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks.

 

[oompa]

<A HREF="http://www.ecsusa.com/products/915p-a.html" target="_new">clicky</A>

 

[Crashman]

Oh god, you linked to THAT board, are you a moron? Everyone but you seems to know that the board you linked to doesn't have AGP. No, it has an AGP SLOT linked to a PCI bus, and its performance is horrid. I mean really bad, as in your high end P4 running worse than a 2 year old low-end system with a decent card.

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[Crashman]

Come on wusy, come to the dark side...go to <A HREF="http://www.sysopt.com" target="_new">http://www.sysopt.com</A> and read my latest review...on an ECS board! Bwuahahahaha!

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[Crashman]

You know that coating they put on boards? I think it's kind of brownish clear stuff...anyway, it looks like ECS simply uses a purple coating.

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