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  • #1

    Use AGP cards in PCI slots!

    I cant read Japanese, but apparently this gizmo allows you to use an AGP card in a PCI slot.

    So now you can run a GeFarce Ti48000000GtiTurbo for games and retain your old G400/450/550 as secondary display, without having to search EBay for second hand PCI G400/450s
    Athlon XP-64/3200, 1gb PC3200, 512mb Radeon X1950Pro AGP, Dell 2005fwp, Logitech G5, IBM model M.
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    I don't buy it. AGP is about a lot more than the slot, like the direct memory access and such. HiNT's own product page says that this is allows 4 PCI Masters from one PCI connection, limited to 32-bit 33MHz operation, and nothing about AGP. Still trying to figure out just what this is though.

    There's also the impracticality of the thing. Even their "demo" pic shows something that wouldn't even fit in a case.
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      No, the HINT chipset is about the PCI->2xPCI splitter.

      And of course it won't fit, it is designed for low-profile cards.

      And oh what's that? Some more IDE channels...

      Very interesting product.
      P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
      Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
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      • #4
        Had a quick read over, there appears to be a few different models of the board, 1 appears to be a 1xAGP + 1xPCI -> PCI adaptor, plus a 2xPCI -> pci and 1xAGP + 2xPCI -> pci adaptor.

        Plus having the extra IDE ports

        Interesting, but yes it defeats the purpose of the AGP slot...
        Juu nin to iro


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        • #5
          The site is dead, but those didn't look like extra IDE ports for sure to me. The connector matches, but it's a common connector. The cables they show are all crosswired though.
          Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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          • #6
            Sorry still pre-coffee here, the two ide 'connectors' are the bus between the adaptor and the pci slot - i think
            Juu nin to iro


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            • #7
              agp to pci
              申し訳ございませんが、お探しのページは見つかりませんでした。 | 玄人志向
              http://www.kuroutoshikou.com/products/agp2pci/agp2pcifset.html


              http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20020601/etc_agp2pci.html

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              • #8
                Hope I never finds one of those things in a machine thats not working....
                If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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                • #9
                  To be honest I wouldn't recommend it It is a nice Idea but at the moment it's not practical to take the risk

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Wombat Even their "demo" pic shows something that wouldn't even fit in a case.
                    Well this would fit but who knows whether it would actually work

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                    • #11
                      I *suppose* it would be useful if you had one of those whiz bang server mobo's with 4 cpu's but no agp slot....
                      Juu nin to iro


                      English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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                      • #12
                        and just where have I heard "Hint" chipset (bridge) elsewhere?
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                        • #13
                          I've seen on on the Hercules Digifire 7.1 soundcard...
                          Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!

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                          • #14
                            Nope keep guessing
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                            • #15
                              Was it the missing chip on the Parhelia?

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