Nforce 4 939 Board with an AGP Slot ? will there be any ?

[BEIF]

Anyone know if any of the Board makers are planning an NForce4 chipset 939 board that will have an AGP Slot ?

Beif

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: BEIF
Anyone know if any of the Board makers are planning an NForce4 chipset 939 board that will have an AGP Slot ?

Beif

As far as I know, no . I think there was an AGP slot originally planned for the nForce4 standard so I'm not really sure.

 

[bob661]

I think ECS is slated to have one. It was supposed to be realesed in December.

 

[kindest]

i thought nforce4 meant pci-e only.

nforce3 is meant for agp. i heard dfi is going to release a nforce3 agp after their pci-e nforce4 board.

 

[hundesau]

ECS brought a dual-system with AGP and PCIE already for Socket 755. But that was a bad only good for users who might be able to live with a "weakened" AGP port for a limited period of time. The manufacturer decided to provide an AGP-compatible slot based on PCI, by merging the voltage feeds of two slots into the AGP connector. This slot, dubbed AGP Express, is not an enhancement to AGP in any way, but rather a PCI slot physically adapted to look like AGP. SO if there will be AGP for Nforce 4 it will be something very similiar, which means something crappy if u are a gamer. If ur a gamer the low performance numbers wont please you. If ur looking for cheap upgrade and keeping ur agp card its worth a look. But i dont know a nforce4 board with AGP...

 

[Peter]

Not necessarily - board designers could take an AMD 8151 HyperTransport-AGP tunnel chip, hook it onto the HTT inbetween the CPU and the NF4, and there you go. True AGP alongside PCIE.

The other way round works too - take any old AGP-enabled chipset, slap an ULi M1695 HT-PCIE tunnel in front of it, done.

 

[hundesau]

must admit, iam not so deep into that stuff...i thought that using pci bus to convert agp would result in big loss of agp performance.
and as such combos are ususally a small market for cheap brands like ECS or Asrock i wouldnt buy one....ill change my oppinion when reviews prove they were good for my needs.

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

Sorry, but AGP = nForce3 Ultra.

Yeah, it's missing a few features from the nForce4 Ultra (SATAII, ActiveArmor, PCI-E). But it's cheaper and they're not really important features right now.