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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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