AGP - the interface that would not die

[WalkinTarget]

Well looky here !! A new HiS 4670 AGP video card !!!

http://en.expreview.com/2009/07/18/h...n-arrives.html

Anybody still rockin' the AGP slot these days ?

[Apache Warrior]

The 128 Bit Memory Interface seems weak.
Apache

[juneau]

It is. I know people really want to cling onto their Old PC's but enough is enough really. If you are running a AGP system your CPU, RAM and everything else is probably going to hold this card back quite a lot, and the card itself won't really be that fast even if it wasn't being bottlenecked.

If anybody actually buys this then.... well, i have no words.

I'm actually suprised that even the new low end cards haven't surpassed the AGP acrhitecture yet.

[Trooper110]

Wait... you guys didn't order yours yet? Better get in before they realize they did something dumb and discontinue it!!!!

[WalkinTarget]

This may still be available, but Newegg was selling an Nvidia 8400 PCI card a few months ago ...

Ahh, here it is !! At only $199 also !! not in stock, drat. But it does say it will be back in stock today


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814139047

[mapes]

Dude really don't you remember ISA...that was around forever

[WalkinTarget]

ISA ?? That's too new for me. Howza 'bout VLB or MCA !!!

My first PC had a VESA Local Bus Tseng Labs ET/4000-W32 card in it ... smokin' fast card for 2D work.

I worked on a few IBM PS2 units that were running the proprietary MicroChannel Architecture stuff as well ... that's dating back to the 80's for those interfaces.

[mapes]

ISA ?? That's too new for me. Howza 'bout VLB or MCA !!!

My first PC had a VESA Local Bus Tseng Labs ET/4000-W32 card in it ... smokin' fast card for 2D work.

I worked on a few IBM PS2 units that were running the proprietary MicroChannel Architecture stuff as well ... that's dating back to the 80's for those interfaces.

Yeah on the poster thread I noticed micro channel wasn't around

[DougBob]

ISA ?? That's too new for me. Howza 'bout VLB or MCA !!!

My first PC had a VESA Local Bus Tseng Labs ET/4000-W32 card in it ... smokin' fast card for 2D work.

I worked on a few IBM PS2 units that were running the proprietary MicroChannel Architecture stuff as well ... that's dating back to the 80's for those interfaces.

Oh man, ISA was a variant from EISA The memories :lol
I also had the VESA local Bus card. Seems like it was one of the early Diamond Voodoo cards or something like that.

[mapes]

Actually the other way around. The first bus was 8 bit ISA then came 16bit ISA then EISA. I actually owned a 286 12mhz processor 8 bit ISA system like 22 years ago. Back in those days to over clock something you had to go and get a quartz crystal and swap a component on the MB. Sheesh now adays you over clockers have it so easy