what is AGP Pro 5?

[LrngToFly]

Since people are talking about the 820 chipset and AGP 4x, what is AGP Pro 5 that is integrated into the Intel 840 workstation chipset?

This article mentions it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/991019-000002.html

So when will Matrox have a card out that supports AGP Pro 5?

[agallag]

agp pro is an extended agp slot designed to provide extra voltage to high end workstation video cards. It is actually a longer slot. When I say high end, I mean >$1000, and >64MB on board memory. ie. 3dlabs Oxygen GMX types (although even that one isn't agp pro yet).

[RoGuE]

All of Asus' new i820 boards have an AGP Pro slot.

[LrngToFly]

I thought the only chipset that is out currently that support AGP Pro 5 is the i840- I don't think the i820 supports it.

The 840 sure isn't getting much press...

[Gurm]

ASUS has always done little stuff like that, it's very cool really. Their P5 boards used to all come with "PCI Pro" slots (although I can't recall the real name of the slot type) which could have some VERY fast video cards plugged into them (well, very fast for 4 years ago... hehe).

- Gurm

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