AGP to AGI slot?

[dbk47]

hey does anyone have motherboard with "AGI" 8x slot? very similar to "AGP" 8x i have a motherboard "ConRoe865GV" with "AGI" slot and i'm planing to buy and use with "HD-3850 AGP" will it work?

 

[tcsenter]

The AGI slot is an AGP connector wired into the PCI bus. Any AGP card you put in there will perform no better than if it were a PCI video card. And no, I would not risk putting any recent AGP card in there. The graphics card MUST be AGP 3.3V tolerant, which is why there are no recent GPUs on the ASRock VGA list.

 

[dbk47]

hmm you probably right but what is the good motherboard for HD-3850 AGP ? at any case well not work i can use another motherboard as a backup than upgrade will cost me double like buying new Memory RAM from DDR1 to DDR2 -_-'

 

[tcsenter]

If you are planning to buy a new motherboard, then don't bother with AGP anymore. You might as well buy PCI Express motherboard and PCI Express graphics card. There is only one AGP motherboard for Intel LGA775 that is still being shipped as an active product:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-SATA2

And it supports PCI Express x16 cards as well (only 4x mode), so there would be no point in buying an AGP card. If you don't have an AGP card already, there are better options for LGA775 than this old VIA chipset board. The AGP versions are more expensive than the PCI Express versons, anyway.

 

[dbk47]

Thank's for feedback appreciate it and sorry for bieng gone for while ( i been busy stuying)will i decided to upgrade my whole rig after several month's,day's of savings i only need 1month to go to buy the video card that's ( Radeon HD 4870) or (Geforce GTX 260) i came a long way after several months of savings in 2months

1month for
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0 Ghz, 12MB, 1333Mhz (i spent 1month for that on Feb)

HardDrive - SATA2 500Gig WD/Samsung 7200rpm
Memory Module - 2x 2GB DDR2 PC800 Kingston
MOtherboard - Gigabyte GA-EG31M-S2
CPU Cooler - Gigabyte 3D Rocket II Cooler GH-PCU23-VE
PSU/PowerSupply - HEC Zephyr 750 Watts

- i spent this around $410 i spent this money this March -

next month (Apr) should be Video Card that worth $230

im hoping to run every modern game with it and this rig =.='

 

[harrycat88]

If you lived in Germany or U.K. overseas in general, your could pick up a ASROCK AliveDual-eSATA2 which supports all AM2, AM2+ and AM3 CPUs along with 8X AGP support and 16X PCI-E support on the same board. The only draw back about the board is ATI AGP based videos and dual core, Triple Core, and/or Quad cores CPUs don't get along with VISTA due to the error 43 bug. I have this motherboard, and it runs rock solid and it even supports the 140WATT Phenom.
It's ashame that they couldn't use the ULi M1567 Southbridge instead of the antique Nforce3 250.