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Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted!
Reply #75 - 02.12.06 at 17:30:34

I dont think that crossfire will actually work (you dont have a second agp slot for the slave card in the first place,there are some mobos that have both agp and pci-e slots,but pci-e+agp crossfire simply sounds too nutz).it is possible that they simply havent removed the connectors..

as for the (bleached) blue color,I cant say I really like it-I want my goodies in RED coating Grin

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #76 - 02.12.06 at 18:29:16 yeah true there, I wonder what the R600's PCB colour is gonna be like, I mean since that AMD took over heh I still hope for the cool Red PCB's.
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #77 - 04.12.06 at 02:12:43 Hmm...but what if AGP+PCIX crossfire really IS possible... ...only problem is finding a board that would support such a setup!
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Reply #78 - 04.12.06 at 12:12:04

well the boards with AGP and PCI-E x16 do exsist so why not go for software CrossFire Wink

no need for hardware extensions or internal connectors, just install 2 X1950 Pro's an AGP and PCI-E card and install the with ATi Catalyst 6.11 WHQL and then you can make usage of Software CrossFire! and with FSAA and AF you get performance hit's around the 55 a 60%

So about the question is it possible? I'd say surey no probs 8)

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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #79 - 04.12.06 at 14:49:00 I would think that the AGP port does not support the required IO bandwidth (bidirectional) for that. Performance hit would be very bad in such a setup, considering the 8x AGP is already in heavy use by Geometry, Shader and Instruction transfers.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #80 - 04.12.06 at 15:18:48 yeah true there, the CrossFire card does most of the work, like I found out with my X1950XTX CF/X1900XTX setup
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Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted!
Reply #81 - 04.12.06 at 15:34:33

Motherboards with AGP and PCIe slots do not support the use of both slots at the same time.

Suprisingly to say, the AGP3.0 standard (AGP8x) does support multiple AGP ports.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port
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This cannot be done with AGP 1.0 (early AGP 1x and 2x) and AGP 2.0 (AGP 4x) cards, because they do not support more than one AGP Master (videocard piece) per AGP Target (chipset piece). However, AGP 3.0 (AGP 8x) does support more than one AGP Master per AGP Target; but very few PC (if any) motherboards are equipped with more than one AGP slot, but RISC computers, like HP AlphaServer GS1280 can have up to 16 AGP slots, AlphaServer ES80 up to 4 AGP slots and AlphaServer ES47 up to 2 AGP slots in a single system.

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Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted!
Reply #82 - 04.12.06 at 15:55:26

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Motherboards with AGP and PCIe slots do not support the use of both slots at the same time.

Suprisingly to say, the AGP3.0 standard (AGP8x) does support multiple AGP ports.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port

uhm AGP 3.0 does support multi targets

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However, AGP 3.0 (AGP 8x) does support more than one AGP Master per AGP Target

it's AGP 1.0 and 2.0 that don't hehe

so then again Software CF might work, with some tweaking then

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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #83 - 04.12.06 at 16:04:44 That's what I said Obi.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #84 - 04.12.06 at 16:08:21 Sorry Nitrox I read it different, silly dislectics I have damn
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Mansfield Full Member Offline Voodoo 2 SLI - the cheapest and the best SLI Posts: 212 Finland Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #85 - 04.12.06 at 16:28:37 hmm. my AsRock 775Dual-VSTA can use agp and pci-e graphicscard at the same time to gain multiscreen(4xscreens) 8)
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #86 - 04.12.06 at 16:41:46 Quote: hmm. my AsRock 775Dual-VSTA can use agp and pci-e graphicscard at the same time to gain multiscreen(4xscreens) 8) You know this for a fact? If so, my bad. Thought I read somewhere that that was impossible.
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MrFossey Junior Member Offline \o/ Posts: 76	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #87 - 04.12.06 at 18:19:14 Quote: You know this for a fact? If so, my bad. Thought I read somewhere that that was impossible. Correct, the ASRock 775Dual-880Pro is able to work with AGP and PCIe cards at the same time. I tested it myself, besides that I thought I read it somewhere. (Either a review or a manual, don't know anymore)
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #88 - 16.12.06 at 23:41:33 yeah.and 939dual can do the same little trick as well: that motherboard rocks if you dont need overclocking,very nice performance,good layout,no hw bugs (think nforce4),support for both pci-e 16x and agp8x,SATA2..and win98 drivers .a nice home for an x1950xtx and voodoo4 4500agp I have one of those myself
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: ATi X1950 Pro AGP Spotted! Reply #89 - 17.12.06 at 13:22:19 or a X1950 XTX and a Rampage 8) that would be very UBER 8)
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