AGP 8X PRO 50 slot ??

[ss69nova]

I was looking threw some mobos and i found some that have a AGP 8X PRO 50 slot. What is this? what makes it difrent than a regluar 8x slot?

Would my ATI 9800 PRO work in this slot?

As near as i can gather it has extra voltage. so would i be able to use my v card and just not plug in the extra power molex?

Any help or links to help would be very helpful.

[BRIMCV]

found this for you

Anandtech has this up;

AGP Pro is an extension of the AGP4X specification that is primarily designed to deliver additional electrical power to the graphics add-in cards. The AGP Pro definition includes an extended connector, thermal envelope, and mechanical specifications for cards, I/O brackets, and motherboard layout requirements. It is designed for professional level video cards, such as the Intergraph/3Dlabs Wildcat 4220.

AGP Pro extends the existing AGP connectors on both ends to deliver additional power on the 12 V and 3.3 V rails. AGP Pro is intended to supplement, but not replace, the existing AGP connector set. There are an additional 20 pins at the start and 28 pins at the end of the normal AGP slot.

An AGP Pro slot will accept and operate with standard AGP cards (although certain restrictions apply in the case of i845 and i850 motherboards). AGP Pro cards however, are not compatible with standard AGP4X slots.

The common AGP slot can supply up to 25 watts of power to a video card. AGP Pro introduces two additional AGP card types that can consume more than 25 watts.

Low Power AGP Pro cards that consume 25 to 50 Watts of power are classified as AGP Pro50 cards. In addition, the AGP Pro standard calls for at least one PCI slot to remain unoccupied adjacent to the AGP Pro50 card for cooling purposes.

A High Power AGP Pro card consumes 50 to 110 Watts of power, and is called an AGP Pro110 card. The standard requires at least 2 PCI slots to remain unoccupied adjacent to the AGP Pro110 card for cooling purposes.

There is no performance difference between AGP4X and AGP Pro.

There are currently no consumer level AGP Pro video cards.

[ss69nova]

ok that answers if it is compatable. thanks for the quick response.

[sean478]

yep i got a 9700 pro in one of those slots it is compatible

[man_utd]

The only cards that really fall in there are the OpenGL style cards. The FireGL card in my sig uses the 110w slot.

[Moto7451]

A few Mac video cards for the PowerMac G5 use the Pro slot so that they do not need a molex connector for power.

[consumer9000]

Extra Voltage - 50W as the name implies... :p
No additional speed however, and useful only with a handful of pro level cards (like FireGL and Quadros etc).

[sean478]

Extra Voltage - 50W as the name implies... :p
No additional speed however, and useful only with a handful of pro level cards (like FireGL and Quadros etc).

the only pro cards ive seen are ones from 3d labs and as far as i know the fire gls and quadros use the interface of the gameing cards they are baised off of