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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. More PCI-E cards by Ramble · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Nevemind AGP, give me a maths co-pocessor that goes right into into my spare PCI-E x16 slot.

    I want those floatig point numbers faster, damnit.

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  2. AGP=Accelerated Graphics Port by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Since AGP is an acronym for Accelerated Graphics Port, my guess is pretty much nothing except graphics cards can be used in them.

  3. Re:Running a vintage AGP card? by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only in IT could something that was state-of-the-art five years ago and a clear industry standard even a couple of years ago possibly be described as "vintage" today. :-)

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  4. Leverage by _Splat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Leverage is not a verb. Please stop using it as such. See the article posted today about loss of literacy.

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  5. Re:Running a vintage AGP card? by gweihir · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only in IT could something that was state-of-the-art five years ago and a clear industry standard even a couple of years ago possibly be described as "vintage" today.

    Indeed. But as long as enough users buy the new "standards", the industry has zero interest in defining something that lasts.

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  6. Re:Sigh you make a lousy hacker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    hahahahah. Sure, the Linux kernel keeps improving, but unless you want blazing text performance, you need to run something newer than KDE 1.0 on that hardware. Comparing Windows XP to a version of KDE that actually works and runs well on that old POS is a totally different situation. Sure, I could load up a 486 with 4MB RAM, a 2.6 kernel and run OpenWindows on it, and say.. "Yes, Linux works on here!" That was cool when I was 16, I'm a decade and a half older now.

    Unless you have never noticed, a modern KDE desktop with all the fixin's is a 512MB job. Oh, you want to run Firefox? You want Evolution with that? Do you not notice your hard drive grinding to death each time you switch windows? On your trusty PIII the disk I/O must be a blazing 33MB/s... A pig is a pig. Dress it up real purdy, and it's still.. a pig. I'm sure you must be one of those hip guys using EMACS or PINE for your email :)

    You obviously know what you are talking about. Go back to bed Linux fan-boy.