Other Uses for an AGP Slot? 160
SleepyHappyDoc asks: "AGP seems to be going the way of the dinosaur, but there's still a lot of slots on legacy motherboards out there. If you don't have need for the graphical advantages of AGP (say, on a headless server), what else could you use the AGP slot for? Could the advantages of AGP over PCI be leveraged in a use other than graphics cards?"
More PCI-E cards (Score:1, Insightful)
I want those floatig point numbers faster, damnit.
AGP=Accelerated Graphics Port (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:Running a vintage AGP card? (Score:4, Insightful)
Only in IT could something that was state-of-the-art five years ago and a clear industry standard even a couple of years ago possibly be described as "vintage" today. :-)
Leverage (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Running a vintage AGP card? (Score:3, Insightful)
Indeed. But as long as enough users buy the new "standards", the industry has zero interest in defining something that lasts.
Re:Sigh you make a lousy hacker (Score:1, Insightful)
Unless you have never noticed, a modern KDE desktop with all the fixin's is a 512MB job. Oh, you want to run Firefox? You want Evolution with that? Do you not notice your hard drive grinding to death each time you switch windows? On your trusty PIII the disk I/O must be a blazing 33MB/s... A pig is a pig. Dress it up real purdy, and it's still.. a pig. I'm sure you must be one of those hip guys using EMACS or PINE for your email
You obviously know what you are talking about. Go back to bed Linux fan-boy.