PCI-E to AGP adapter?

[whc.demo]

does anyone know of a pci-e to agp adapter for ati cards??

i found some for nvidia cards but none for ati

it would be great to be able to buy a killer gfx card for my old rig and upgrade cpu and mobo etc later down the track..

currently i have a s478 p4 3.4EE with x800pro flashed to 16ppl XT/PE. its a shame there arnt really that many agp cards with greater performance & sm3 other than the 7800GS...so i dont see the point in upgrading to another agp vid card and i cant afford a whole new system for a while..


lol or even better would be a s478 mobo with both AGPx8 and PCI-E.. although i guess they dont exist either...

perhaps ill just wait and see what the x1650xt is like, but it doesnt look too promising..

i wish ati would just release an AGP x1950xtx 512mb lol

thanks!

 

[DaMulta]

I would like to see this for Nvida cards/

 

[Agility]

X1950pro Agp -- Own

 

[InfDamarvel]

....lol odd thing is I believe there was a pci-e to agp adapter of some sort of existence...I heard about it a long time ago.

 

[Agility]

I've only heard a PCI-E to agp bridge on the pcb of the gpu card.

 

[whc.demo]

so it looks like the x1950pro will be the best agp card available, but im a bit confused, it only has 12 pipelines but 36 pixel shaders(or something ) while my x800xt has 16 pipelines and 16 pixel shaders correct? so it does 3 times the work on each pipe or something??


so does that mean the x1950pro's 12 pipelines are going to cripple it? or each of the 36 pixel shaders acts the same as 1 physical pipe would on the x800xt? if you know what i mean..

 

[wtf8269]

I remember reading on here a long time ago, like shortly after I joined, about a low end 6xxx series nvidia PCIE card that could be adapted to AGP. It was one of those half width cards though to make room for the adapter. Overall a waste of time, atleast with the card it was being done with.

 

[AshenSugar]

its an x1900gt effectivly, each pipe has 4 shader units, it will STOMP your x800xt pe(i know i have one in my backup system )

the x1950pro is not crippled, its a native 12pipe chip, anymore games are moving away from pipes and on to being shader based

and yes each 1 of the x1950pro's shader units is like 1 of the x800xt pe's just newer more up to date(ps3 insted of ps2b) its a better card allaround

 

[W1zzard]

albatron had an adapter for nvidia 6200 cards or something ... but i dont thing anything exists for the higher end cards

 

[whc.demo]

x1950pro it is then! who said agp is dead


now i can hold off a bit longer for a whole new system when dx10 prices drop a bit, and by then the same cpu's mobo etc that i would have to buy now to convert to PCIe will be cheaper too..


edit:yer wizzard the albatron agp pcie adapters were for 6200 6800 (no 6600) and a couple from the 5000 series, but none for the 7000s..

 

[Jimmy 2004]

Not dead but dying as PC manufacturers try to go back to one specification again.

 

[Agility]

1900 series is based on 1600 series which means both uses the same type of function pipelines. 1pipe --> 3shaders something like that

1300 series and 1800 series. 1pipe --> 1 shader. Ok?