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Phili G · May 20, 2007 at 6:58 AM

You can get 7800GS AGP

A cute thing for AGP supporters. Gainward is shipping the BLISS Geforce 7800 GS+ SILENT 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (AGP) - Retail and it will cost you a saucy £352.44 including VAT. There is no doubt that this is the fastest AGP card to date and it is available now. Its secret is that it uses 7900 GT chip inside clocked at 450MHz+ core and 1250MHz + memory. It has a fully functional 24 pipes and we are looking forward to test this baby. You can buy it here. So the company is back to its old unique overclocking routes.

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xlink · May 20, 2007 at 1:18 PM

Originally posted by arbiter2005@May 20 2007, 01:30 PM
You can still have 2 AGP slots, My friend has a motherboard with 1 AGP and 1 PCI-e port, So i reckon its possbile. But as for the gfx card, if your using AGP then 6800gt would be enough to play the games mentioned and still is an ok card. I managed to get an OEM one for 40 quid (about $80) just as it didnt have the driver disk, Drivers are free from Nvidia.com anyway

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agp

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Variations

A number of non-standard variations of the AGP interface have been produced by manufacturers.

64 bit AGP
A 64-bit channel. Used in high end ----- graphic cards. It was once proposed as an optional standard for AGP 3.0 in draft documents, but was dropped in the final version of the standard.
AGP Express
Not a true AGP interface, but rather a way to allow an AGP card to be connected over the legacy PCI bus on a PCI Express motherboard. It is a technology found on ECS motherboards, and is used as a selling point for AGP card owners who want a new motherboard but do not want to be forced to buy a PCIe graphics card as well (most new motherboards do not provide AGP slots, only PCIe slots). An "AGP Express" slot is basically a PCI slot (with the electrical power of two) in the AGP form factor. While it offers backward compatibility with AGP cards, its disadvantages include incomplete support (some AGP cards do not work with AGP Express) and reduced performance - the card is forced to use the shared PCI bus at its lower bandwidth, rather than having exclusive use of the faster AGP.
AGI
The ASRock Graphics Interface (AGI) is a proprietary variant of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) standard. Its purpose is to provide AGP-support for those of Asrock's motherboards that use chipsets lacking native AGP-support. However, it's not fully compatible and several videocard chipsets are known to not be supported. The performance and the quality of that interface is somewhat questionable.
AGX
The EpoX Advanced Graphics eXtended (AGX) is also a proprietary variant of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) standard. It shares the same problems with the AGI port explained above. User manuals even recommend not using AGP 8X ATI cards with AGX slots.
Ultra-AGP
It is an internal AGP interface standard used by SiS for the north bridge controllers with integrated graphics. The original version supports same bandwidth as AGP 8x, while Ultra-AGPII has maximum 3.2GB/s bandwidth.
XGP
The Biostar Xtreme Graphics Port is also a variant of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) standard. It is similar to the two standards above, in that it supports AGP cards with chipsets that do not support AGP. Also like the above, it has support issues with many AGP cards.
AGR
The Advanced Graphics Riser is a variation of the AGP port used in some PCIe motherboards to offer a limited backwards compatibility with AGP. It is, effectively, a modified PCI slot with no direct interconnection with the CPU or memory, and thus slower even compared to an AGP 1x slot. Its actual compatibility with AGP cards is also limited, while motherboard manufacturers usually publish a specific compatibility list.
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he likely has one of those, it's merely AGP via emulation. No chipset that's in mass production natively supports both an AGP port and a PCI-e port

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Originally posted by Phili G@May 20 2007, 03:28 PM
You can get 7800GS AGP

A cute thing for AGP supporters. Gainward is shipping the BLISS Geforce 7800 GS+ SILENT 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (AGP) - Retail and it will cost you a saucy £352.44 including VAT. There is no doubt that this is the fastest AGP card to date and it is available now. Its secret is that it uses 7900 GT chip inside clocked at 450MHz+ core and 1250MHz + memory. It has a fully functional 24 pipes and we are looking forward to test this baby. You can buy it here. So the company is back to its old unique overclocking routes.

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it's over his budget

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