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MSI shows PCIe/AGP on a single graphics card
This RX800 graphics card from MSI supports both PCI-Express and AGP. A working concept card, it can be used in either slot simply by flipping it around, and uses a bridge to move it from AGP or PCIe mode, depending on the slot it is pushed into.
You can see from the photo that it has connectors at the top and bottom of the card.
MSI is unsure if it will release the card though, because the company doesn't know how popular it would be.
Another concept card on MSI's stand was the fast NX6800Ultra dual GPU graphics card, which boasts a whopping 1GB G-DDR3 memory (2x512DDR3).
It's the top card in the photo, and as you can see it uses heat pipes and a fan to dissipate the heat it generates. 
Again, the company is undecided on whether or not to bring the card to market, unsure if their would be enough demand for what we be an expensive card to produce that would come with a high price tag.
The middle card, the NX6600GT-TD256E is coming out. The massive heatsink, which has a fan sitting behind it, was hand-made but it will go into mass production.
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I wonder if there is a spare PCI-E add on Bus for AGP motherboards, Nvidia and Ati wolid get highly benefited from such technology if such adapter is ever developed, you know most PC users are still stuck in the AGP era, i had a Voodoo in my motherboard in which I'm still runnig and I wolud like to run a higher end GPU using PCI-E with out changing my motherboard.
Posted by Jose Suarez | June 29, 2007 2:30 AM