Dual AGP Motherboards?

[noen]

Can anyone tell me some companies that make newer dual agp slot motherboards. I know back a year or two ago I saw a couple of Xeon and 400bx based dual agp boards, but I want to know if there have been any for the Athlon or P4 cpu's... thanks guys

 

[Viper GTS]

Because AGP is a port & not a bus, I think chipset support could be a problem...

But I probably don't know what the hell I'm talking about, so ignore the previous statement if it's wrong.

Viper GTS

 

[Vincent]

Perhaps he/she is asking about dual processor motherboards with AGP slots.

 

[noen]

well i know they exist, I just hope someone still makes em with the new chipsets out there...god i would hope to see a 760MP chipset with dual agp

 

[noen]

no i am talking about a board with 2 agp slots. Having a dual CPU AND dual AGP board would be nice too tho

 

[erub]

very little would benefit from it maybe? and costly integration? games usually have to be rewritten to be played on a dualie...and a second monitor can run fine off of a pci card. Probably not worth the effort for the manufactuer, not a big enough market....

 

[noen]

actually they are very very useful to the people who need them, IE cad/cam users and small time rendering stations like SGI Visual Workstations. I can be rendering on one card while modeling on another and NO a pci card just cant cut it in that respect.

 

[Noriaki]

AGP is a port (as opposed to a Bus like PCI), thus by denefition you can only have one.
You can't just split an AGP line...take the i815E as an example if you insert an AGP graphics card you can't use the onbaord video at the same time.

Unless there is a chipset that specifically supports Dual AGP Ports you are SOL. And AFIAK there are no chipsets that do that.

Your second video card can't really do 3D functions anyways....

Edit: Nice Sig by the way.

 

[Mday]

there is no such animal. IT DOES NOT EXIST.

 

[rahvin]

You were mistaken if you think you saw a dual AGP motherboard.

 

[Hanpan]

Sorry but everyone here is right. These is currently no chipset that has support for dual agp ports.

Sorry

 

[noen]

damn i must have, i could have SWORN i saw one a couple years ago tho

 

[Rand]

Your definitely mistaken, there are no boards that support 2 AGP slots.
There are boards that have onboard AGP graphics and an AGP slot, but not 2 AGP slots.

 

[Zach]

<< damn I must have, I could have SWORN i saw one a couple years ago tho >>



You probaby saw a dual slot 1 from a distance, they can look AGP'ish. And some high end boards have better versions of PCI (64bit and/or 66Mhz), some of which use an extended slot size..


It would be nice if a company would put dual CPU->AGP controllers in a chipset though..

 

[Jeff7]

If such a thing as a dual-AGP board did exist, think of the fun...SLI Geforce3 cards...

 

[elchen]

mmmmm...sli geforce 3 cards...yummy

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

maybe some dufus made a typo and wrote &quot;2 AGP connector&quot; instead of &quot;2x AGP connector&quot;

-Ice