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Motherboards with PCI-X compatible with AGP2PCI?
27.10.13 at 18:01:38
 
Hi,
AFAIK, AGP2PCI adapters have compatibility issues with at least some motherboards, so I ask for your help in sharing your experience.
I am searching for a motherboard that has at least one PCI-X slot and has been tested to work with AGP2PCI or AGP5.
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Re: Motherboards with PCI-X compatible with AGP2PCI?
Reply #1 - 27.10.13 at 22:35:04
 
From my experience the Asus workstation boards are compatible with the AGP2PCI adapter. The model I use is a P5WDG2 WS Pro s775 mb.
I have tested the adapter on a Tyan MPX2466 board but without success.
The compatibility issue seems to be related to the PCI-X controller chip. NEC ones seems to be compatible with AGP2PCI while with others it depends.

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Re: Motherboards with PCI-X compatible with AGP2PCI?
Reply #2 - 28.10.13 at 05:40:18
 
Thanks for the info, Gino. I also tried AGP2PCI with Tyan S2466N-4M and it did not work  Angry
The P5WDG2 WS Pro is great, but my hope is there are other older, cheaper motherboards with PCI-X slot that have been tested working with AGP2PCI... If you, lads, know of any such case, please share  Wink
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Re: Motherboards with PCI-X compatible with AGP2PCI?
Reply #3 - 28.10.13 at 07:33:59
 
Same here on Tyan Thunder K7X (S2469). To be honest, I think the PCI routing is pretty much crappity smacked up on 760 chipset and also the performance itself is bad.
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Reply #4 - 28.10.13 at 10:51:06
 
The best motherboard I have tested with PCI-x and agp2pci  is the ASUS WS P5WDG2. Agree with Gino about NEC PCI-x controller chip.

I have tested other WS ASUS where performance is really bad or even agp2pci does not work.

Anyway, the best combo is to use an adapter PCIe2PCI-x (SuperMicro)  plus  agp2pci.

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Oscar.
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Re: Motherboards with PCI-X compatible with AGP2PCI?
Reply #5 - 28.10.13 at 12:46:17
 
Hi Komponent,

Like Osckhar said you, the best combination is to take a MB new generation with PCIexpress 16x slot and put the Supermicro Adaptor RSC-RR1UE-AXL + AGP2PCI adaptor or AGP.5.

Like that:

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/704463GoldSE2.jpg
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/441866GoldSEbench1.jpg
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/828711test1.jpg

Regards,
Trevor.
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