Any consumer mainboard without PCI - E is truly ancient. People still keep those old dinosaurs up and running?? Keep it simple, PCI - Express: Standard PEG 16 and support gen 3. Though I admit an x4 gen 3 would probably service the actual bandwidth needs.
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Dieter BSD <[email protected]> wrote: > Jack writes: > > not all machines have PCIe slots. My newest one has AGP; the rest have > > only PCI. How hard would it be to offer the same frame buffer and > > analog back end on more than one base board? > > They make adapters, but unless your current board has some unusual > feature you really need, you're probably better off getting a new > mainboard, and finding some other use for the current one. :-( > There might be a few OGD1 cards (PCI-X) still available. > > At this point PCIe has been out for several years, so I assume that > the market for PCI or AGP video cards is very small. (Is anyone else > wanting PCI or AGP? If so now is the time to speak up.) The bus > interface is different, so it would be a significant change > to the electronics. > > I have seen photos on the web of cards with one interface on > one side, and a different interface on the other. I suggested > that for OGD1 but there wasn't interest. > > Given our limited resources, I'm trying very hard to come up with > a single board that can serve as many people's needs as possible, > without raising the cost (in engineering time, economic cost, > or risk that something will not work) too much. > > Perhaps someone will to volunteer to design a 2nd board with PCI > or AGP, or to do the work looking into the possibility of > having two interfaces on one board. > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) >
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