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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. Very limited usage, maybe by BobPaul · · Score: 4, Informative

    AGP has more downstream bandwidth to the slot than upstream bandwidth from the slot, whereas PCI and PCIe have the same to and from the slot.

    You could use it for something like a beefy sound board.. or, something...

    No, not much other than graphics output really needs that kind of bandwidth differential.

    1. Re:Very limited usage, maybe by name773 · · Score: 4, Informative

      maybe for running hashes on something... a hash is usually smaller than the data you used to get it, and it does take some processing

  2. Re:There was this project ... by jnik · · Score: 5, Informative

    GPGPU is what you're looking for.