<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/26 Robin Hill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myth@robinhill.me.uk">myth@robinhill.me.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed Nov 26, 2008 at 09:26:11AM +0000, Ian Clark wrote:<br>
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> 2008/11/21 Nicolas Will <<a href="mailto:nico@youplala.net">nico@youplala.net</a>><br>[snip]<br>
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> There are PCIe to AGP bridge chips out there. That's how the first AGP<br>
> Geforcce 6600GTs worked, the chip was only a PCIe part, bridged for AGP.<br>
> (This was not true of the faster 6800 AGP parts).<br>
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</div>Surely that would be PCI at the time, not PCIe?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>No, it was in the early days of PCIe, when AGP was still very prominent. The 6800 series (NV 40 series if my memory serves me well) were AGP or AGP bridged to PCIe, however the 6600, released later, were PCIe parts, that were briged back to AGP when required. (It was weird seing my AGP card reported as PCIe x8!)<br>
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6600GT">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6600GT</a> (The bit at the bottom deals with the NV43)<br><br>I feel old now. :)<br><br>Ian<br></div></div><br>