i was reading this review from t-break of an albatron motherboard that had a PCIe AND an AGP slot. cool stuff to say the least.... but it got me thinking...
nvidia uses an HSI chip grafted onto the non-PCIe native graphics card to convert the AGP bus to PCIe and vice versa, or something along thoes lines, so my idea is this....
could you impliment the HSI chip on the motherboard level to create a AGP slot? say taking 4x pcie lanes, slapping the HSI chip on them to convert thoes 4x lanes to make an AGP slot/bus?
on the albatron board only certain graphic cards from nvidia and ati will work. would an HSI chip get any card to work? would you have to program a chip for every card? or can the chip automatically convert any AGP signal to PCIe?
nvidia uses an HSI chip grafted onto the non-PCIe native graphics card to convert the AGP bus to PCIe and vice versa, or something along thoes lines, so my idea is this....
could you impliment the HSI chip on the motherboard level to create a AGP slot? say taking 4x pcie lanes, slapping the HSI chip on them to convert thoes 4x lanes to make an AGP slot/bus?
on the albatron board only certain graphic cards from nvidia and ati will work. would an HSI chip get any card to work? would you have to program a chip for every card? or can the chip automatically convert any AGP signal to PCIe?
