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Adding additional AGP slot in PC ?

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by shivakumar

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Hi All ,

As you aware that all the (MNC) branded pcs has intgrated agp (display) card with it with some amount of vram. The problem is in most of the pcs ( Dell , Compaq , micron ) there is no provision form adding additional video RAM . Our grphics oriented applications are required minimum of 12MB video RAM . But there is no additional AGP slot in the workstation , so adding additional higer capacity agp card is become impossible. So what is the best solution for it. Is there any ways are available to add additional agp slot on exixting mother board.?

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by dheupel

I personally don't know of any PCI to AGP graphics bridge cards - if they are out there, they are obscure products. Your best bet is to build a clone type machine that has an AGP slot on the motherboard, with which you can install your desired graphics adapter.

by m.a.s. matrix

you can not add another agp slot but you can buy a pci add on card to up your video memory or if you look on the card it's self, sometimes there are empty mem banks on the board. if there are, you might just be able to go out and pick up some mem and upgrade the board.

by aschaffer

If the PC has no AGP slot you should get a PCI video card. Even if you were able to get video memory on a PCI card, the bandwidth on the PCI bus is relatively small, and there would be a large performance hit. You can still find some decent PCI video cards, and anything is better then on board video.

by mckaytech

I'm not aware of any way to add an AGP slot to a motherboard with an integrated display adapter, especially since the architecture of an embedded adapter is typically different from a plug-in card in that it shares system RAM rather than having it'sown.

However, many PCI cards perform as well in most applications as AGP, particularly with high-end cards with lots of RAM. I think I would at least consider trying a high-end PCI card to see if it performs adequately for your application.

In my experience, it generally works out okay.

paul

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