Are all AGP ports the same?

Silver_Wraith

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I have an Asus A7V133 motherboard. In the description of the board's agp slot comes the following: "This motherboard provides an AGP Pro slot to support AGP/AGP Pro graphics cards, such as an ASUS AGP-V6800DDR/64M." Does this mean I can put a Radeon 8500 on my board's AGP slot? It's because I've seen that an AGP 1.1 slot (1.5V) is required for the Radeon. Are all AGP ports the same?
 

Clarentavious

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By all gods no, they are not the same.

Older boards support 2x AGP (and 1x, AGP version 1.0). The current standard is 4x AGP (AGP 2.0). The brand spanking new boards like the KT333 and P4X333 have 8x AGP (AGP version 3), but there are currently no cards running at that standard.
 

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I think I got it better now. But do you think a Gigabyte Radeon 8500 will work good on my Asus A7V133 AGP slot? The problem is, I'm not really sure if my AGP slot supports 4x. So, I'll transcribe what's on my mboard's manual: "AGP Pro Slot: Supports AGP/AGP Pro cards for high performance, component level interconnection targeted at 3D graphical applications supporting 133Mhz 4X mode." This means, indeed, did I won't have problems connecting my 4X Gigabyte Radeon 8500, right? It's just that this "AGP 1.1 slot required (1.5V)" for the Radeon confuses me. Please do advise me.
 

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It means at least AGP 1.1. It will also work in AGP 2.0 & 2.1. It will definitely work in your A7V133 mobo.

It won't work in an AGP 1.0 slot which doesn't have the lower 1.5 voltage.

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The new mainboards don't have AGP 8x support yet. The earliest known chipset that supports it is the Sis648, which will come out this fall sometime.

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The new mainboards don't have AGP 8x support yet. The earliest known chipset that supports it is the Sis648, which will come out this fall sometime.

Doh! That is incorrect. <A HREF="http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/p4x333.jsp" target="_new">http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/p4x333.jsp</A>