AGP+PCI Express on a Single Card

[apu318]

Probably a repost. Thought it might be useful to those people who are torn between AGP and PCI-E. :)

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=13974

[IWasHungry]

Remember seeing that a few months ago. Whatever happened to it?

[rseven]

It makes no sense to me. The techs at MSI are on something and it's not helping them. Why would someone buy this card? Gee, I can't decider so, I'll get both in one? I understand the ULI1695 concept. You have a few hundred invested in an AGP and you buy a board that will use it till you get a pci-e. This is reversed. I have $100 invested in an AGP board so I will spend $250 on a card I can use now and when I upgrade the board. For the extra money they will get for this card you could just get a new motherboard. :confused:

[Tomatosaurus[RE]

Why is it that I get this AtomChip®-feeling from this VGA card?

:santa:

[Quailane]

Why is it that I get this AtomChip®-feeling from this VGA card?

:santa:

No, this is real.

They just try a lot of things out over at MSI, just like at Gigabyte.

[Romulox]

IMO they should have kept an AGP type interface on all the new mobos. Like
AGPx16 that still supported AGPX8X4.

[Cobalt]

There were other reasons for going to PCIe, better power management etc. AGP had come to the end of its life anyway. The architeture didn't allow for much of a bandwidth increase and it couldn't supply the power required for modern cards(even my 9800pro needs an aditional power connector).