Question about AGP slot

[her209]

Hey Yall

Do you think its possible to have 2 AGP slots on a motherboard?
I want to run a dual monitor setup but PCI versions of video card are just too darn slow, sometimes by half. :|

Any thoughts?

 

[BFG10K]

Do you think its possible to have 2 AGP slots on a motherboard?

I doubt it. You'd need two aperture grill/sidebanding settings plus AGP texturing/fastwrites would be a nightmare to implement.

I want to run a dual monitor setup but PCI versions of video card are just too darn slow

What do you mean they're too slow? Too slow for what? At the moment AGP is barely faster than PCI (except in T&L situations obviously).

 

[sciencewhiz]

I have to agree with BFG on this one. It is my understanding that most 3d apps can only run on the primary display. Since these are the only apps that might have a slowdown between PCI and AGP versions of the same card.

If we both misunderstood you and you thought that there were not good PCI cards out, that has changed. there is a GF2mx availible in PCI and a Vodoo 4 PCI.

 

[her209]

I meant in terms of gaming on a PCI version of a video card.

Looking at the specs, a Voodoo5 PCI is no competition to a Geforce 2. That is why I am saying that PCI is slow.

 

[Hawk]

You can't run anything 3d with the secondary video card anyway...and when you compare PCI an AGP cards, you should compare to itself (5500 AGP vs. 5500 PCI for example). I heard the new drivers give the 5500 huge increases, so perhaps the 5500 PCI will be pretty fast as well, just that if you have it as your second display, you can't run games on it.

 

[Deeko]

Actually, the PCI V5 isn't much slower than the AGP, and that competes well with the GTS.

 

[Dogcatcher]

I have run 3d games on my secondary monitor in the past. I didn't have to do anything special to do it. They were 3dfx games (secondary card is was a 3dfx card) I believe you can use Power Strip to choose what monitor you want to output your games to.