I seem to remember when PCI Express was being launched that ATI and nVidia took a different approach to it. Can't remember which way round it was, and that doesn't really matter, but I seem to remember one of them talking about continuing to make AGP cards initially and making some sort of bridge to make their AGP card work in a PCI Express slot, whereas the other company talked about doing the opposite - switching to making PCI Express cards and making a bridge to make them backwards compatible with AGP.
Was it just talk - did these solutions ever see the light of day? Is there any way to make an AGP card work on a PCI Express motherboard? Just it would be a lot less painful to upgrade in 2 steps - firstly CPU/motherboard/RAM, and then upgrade from my X800 XT at a later point, since it's still a quick card even today and doesn't need changing yet.
With CPU socket and video card slot both changing over together, I'm sure it's made upgrading very expensive for a lot of people.
Cheers in advance,
Simon.
Was it just talk - did these solutions ever see the light of day? Is there any way to make an AGP card work on a PCI Express motherboard? Just it would be a lot less painful to upgrade in 2 steps - firstly CPU/motherboard/RAM, and then upgrade from my X800 XT at a later point, since it's still a quick card even today and doesn't need changing yet.
With CPU socket and video card slot both changing over together, I'm sure it's made upgrading very expensive for a lot of people.
Cheers in advance,
Simon.