Some fighter pilots can see at rates of up 160 fps +,
Seeing motion is one thing... How far you can recognize it is another... I dunno I guess everyone is different. My friends eyes hurt when he sees a screen flickering below 60 Hz..
well.. it is viable.. but wihout the proper equipment next to impossible... you may be confident in your soldering skills.. but this isn't something i think to be done by hand... motherbooards are multi layered.. and to reach contact with all those layers is pretty hard.. if the bios is indeed firmware like, and you can replace it as you wish. Using a spare agp connector lying around and soldering it on 'should' work.. but no guarantees, something proprietary like a dell board might not be something you want to test this on.. try something else if you've got it around.. My father has personally hand soldered things onto motherboards, ie: a usb port on a thinkpad, but it was a straight replacement from another thinkpad, we've done other hand soldering on motherboards and succesfully reached all the layers.. but never something like an agp port.. i would suggest that most motherboards are very delicate to heat.. i know you can remove any chip from any multi layered board with thousand dollar tools. Like a special hot air soldering tool. Next to impossible by hand.. hand soldering could damage your circuits pretty easily when it comes to the amount of contacts on an agp port, it would have to be done VERY CAREFULLY.. At my old job we dealt with dells and i've seen them leave out the AGP connector but leave the contacts for it.. if indeed this empty connector space is really hooked up to a proper circuit, and the bios and chipset are AGP capable and this capability reaches that empty connecter space... then sure... why wouldn't it work? it's in the right place.. Dell can't screw something as standard as an AGP port... i'd research into it.. as my original post was intended for it's viability to someone who knows how it's done... that empty connector is there for a reason...
True... when they release a motherboard... they look into things like scalability, a value motherboard without a built in AGP can easily be fitted one by soldering it on with the right equipment... flash the bios and you're ready to boot... even for the home enthusiast this is no hard task... hence the low cost of adding extra peripherals..
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Some fighter pilots can see at rates of up 160 fps +,
Seeing motion is one thing... How far you can recognize it is another... I dunno I guess everyone is different. My friends eyes hurt when he sees a screen flickering below 60 Hz..
well.. it is viable.. but wihout the proper equipment next to impossible... you may be confident in your soldering skills.. but this isn't something i think to be done by hand... motherbooards are multi layered.. and to reach contact with all those layers is pretty hard.. if the bios is indeed firmware like, and you can replace it as you wish. Using a spare agp connector lying around and soldering it on 'should' work.. but no guarantees, something proprietary like a dell board might not be something you want to test this on.. try something else if you've got it around.. My father has personally hand soldered things onto motherboards, ie: a usb port on a thinkpad, but it was a straight replacement from another thinkpad, we've done other hand soldering on motherboards and succesfully reached all the layers.. but never something like an agp port.. i would suggest that most motherboards are very delicate to heat.. i know you can remove any chip from any multi layered board with thousand dollar tools. Like a special hot air soldering tool. Next to impossible by hand.. hand soldering could damage your circuits pretty easily when it comes to the amount of contacts on an agp port, it would have to be done VERY CAREFULLY.. At my old job we dealt with dells and i've seen them leave out the AGP connector but leave the contacts for it.. if indeed this empty connector space is really hooked up to a proper circuit, and the bios and chipset are AGP capable and this capability reaches that empty connecter space... then sure... why wouldn't it work? it's in the right place.. Dell can't screw something as standard as an AGP port... i'd research into it.. as my original post was intended for it's viability to someone who knows how it's done... that empty connector is there for a reason...
True... when they release a motherboard... they look into things like scalability, a value motherboard without a built in AGP can easily be fitted one by soldering it on with the right equipment... flash the bios and you're ready to boot... even for the home enthusiast this is no hard task... hence the low cost of adding extra peripherals..