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Other Uses for an AGP Slot?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gfx-cards-have-gone-PCIx dept.

SleepyHappyDoc asks: "AGP seems to be going the way of the dinosaur, but there's still a lot of slots on legacy motherboards out there. If you don't have need for the graphical advantages of AGP (say, on a headless server), what else could you use the AGP slot for? Could the advantages of AGP over PCI be leveraged in a use other than graphics cards?"

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  1. /dev/null by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 5, Funny

    As it is write only, it is ideal for implementing a hardware /dev/null on Unix systems.

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    Sent from my ASR33 using ASCII
  2. That one is obvious by Groo+Wanderer · · Score: 1, Funny

    You could make a lovely planter out of it. The two tiered pins would make for an exceptionally easy 'layered' approach, maybe some lucious greens in back, and shorter flowering bits in front.

    You would simply be the envy of all the other sysadmins in the data center.

          -Charlie

    P.S. Paint your boxes in pastels to compliment the florals. Black and silver is so 2004.

  3. Re:Leverage by mike.newton · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least it's been around since the 1930's. What gets me are the Olympic announcers using 'podium' as a verb. No really. "The fact that he podiumed is an amazing indication of how far he's come in the last 4 years."