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> BTW I think I heard about some motherboard which had two AGP slots, but the second one was AGP only physically/electrically, running over a standard PCI bus.

> BTW I think I heard about some motherboard which had two AGP slots, but the second one was AGP only physically/electrically, running over a standard PCI bus. But maybe my brain is just making things... I've not personally ever seen a board with dual AGP slots, but there were a number of AGP and PCI-e supporting oddballs during the transition period. I recall one of the more terrible ones doing something like basically just allowing an AGP card to hang off the PCI bus. There were some AGP/PCIe chipsets that were quite good during this time as well, but many of them seemed to be crappy hacks with performance limitations or compatibility problems. Also interesting were the graphics cards that used Nvidia's AGP -> PCIe adapter chip which allowed them to keep selling older hardware on newer platforms.

justsomehnguy 2y ago
https://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/K7Upgrade-600/ https://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/K7Upgrade-600/ It's not a real two slots, because you can use only one, of course. AlphaServer ES47 and ES80 model has support for 4 and 8 AGP slots respectevly but that's cheating, they are server scalable systems. Maxed out GS1280 can support 16 AGP slots per partition. They did test them with 4 cards, though. https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/c04324523.pdf?jumpid=in_lit-psnow-getpdf https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/c04324523.pdf?jumpid=in_lit-ps... https://docslib.org/doc/5603403/hp-alphaserver-es47-es80-gs1280-user-information https://docslib.org/doc/5603403/hp-alphaserver-es47-es80-gs1... Unsurprisingly (in the context of the thread) some guy from Russia actually did AGP to PCI converter and it worked just fine (considering you can only use 3.3V cards on it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhp1_zBnAEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhp1_zBnAEk > I recall one of the more terrible ones doing something like basically just allowing an AGP card to hang off the PCI bus Intel 915 chipset: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1344 https://www.anandtech.com/show/1344 Looks like this is what my mind mangled up to a dual AGP slot version. Welp, guess there was no dual AGP consumer cards at all.

justsomehnguy 2y ago

https://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/K7Upgrade-600/ https://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/K7Upgrade-600/ It's not a real two slots, because you can use only one, of course. AlphaServer ES47 and ES80 model has support for 4 and 8 AGP slots respectevly but that's cheating, they are server scalable systems. Maxed out GS1280 can support 16 AGP slots per partition. They did test them with 4 cards, though. https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/c04324523.pdf?jumpid=in_lit-psnow-getpdf https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/c04324523.pdf?jumpid=in_lit-ps... https://docslib.org/doc/5603403/hp-alphaserver-es47-es80-gs1280-user-information https://docslib.org/doc/5603403/hp-alphaserver-es47-es80-gs1... Unsurprisingly (in the context of the thread) some guy from Russia actually did AGP to PCI converter and it worked just fine (considering you can only use 3.3V cards on it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhp1_zBnAEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhp1_zBnAEk > I recall one of the more terrible ones doing something like basically just allowing an AGP card to hang off the PCI bus Intel 915 chipset: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1344 https://www.anandtech.com/show/1344 Looks like this is what my mind mangled up to a dual AGP slot version. Welp, guess there was no dual AGP consumer cards at all.