What's a good Mainboard that supports AGP 4X?

[SteveC]

The current models will work in an AGP4X board, but won't run at 4X speed. The chip is capable, however, and so there will be G400s released which can to AGP4X once Matrox are able to test.

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[GTI]

SteveC: Do you think we can upgrade our current G400 in terms of driver/Bios to make it run AGP4X when the chipset/MB is ready??

GTI.

[Zypher]

Note: Camino *WILL* support "AGP Pro".

Not for us low end terds, but a full implementation of AGP pro *blocks* 2 pci slots for cooling and electrical, AND can draw up to 110 Watts just for itself! That would be a serious fricking card to pull thrice what top end cpus use right now.

Some of the preview pics of asus camino boards had agp pro slots. The pro is basically a electrical extension, it has no affect on what version (1x 2x 4x) the slot can do.

As for G400 and 4x, I heard the same, will work fine, won't do crap past 2x. Who cares, most of us use the onboard memory only [esp with 32mb :] I think a lot of the ideas of agp suck anywho.

Also,
1394 is *not* cheaper than scsi any way you pull it, sorry. But you can get a _card_ around $150 now. USB and 1394 (don't say firewire unless you're an apple slut are two different turkeys. Bandwidth ain't the pie in the sky either, there are some other serious differences. USB = My mouse 1394 = My mpeg2 stream LOL thats the way it goes.

BTW, Intel is not dumb, they aren't competing *any* version of usb against *any* 1394 regardless of what some uninformed tech writers may try to tell you. They will coexsist just fine.