Old Motherboard with AGP need PCIe x16

[Bgordy2013]

Is there any adapter that will do this conversion? 2-3 adapters strung and Jerry-rigged together wont bother me.

 

[getochkn]

No need a new mb

 

[bccorrupt]

No, there is no adapter. Your best bet would be to look on Ebay or similar for an AGP card.

 

[dwatterworth]

There is a lot of information on one made by a company Albatron circa 2005, but no information on if this product actually came into being. There are some older Asrock motherboards that feature both AGP and PCIe, but past that, nothing that I can find.

The two interfaces were electronically different, so the controller to go between the two would probably add latency, obviously would restrict bandwidth to the significantly lower AGP spec etc etc.

 

[bccorrupt]

There is a lot of information on one made by a company Albatron circa 2005, but no information on if this product actually came into being. There are some older Asrock motherboards that feature both AGP and PCIe, but past that, nothing that I can find.

The two interfaces were electronically different, so the controller to go between the two would probably add latency, obviously would restrict bandwidth to the significantly lower AGP spec etc etc.

It worked the opposite direction, for running an AGP card in a pci-e slot.

 

[FinalDrive]

I can't even imagine how bottlenecked the PCI-E GPU would be through an AGP port, even rigged to use some of the PCI bus. Plus if the board only supports AGP then the CPU it supports would not be worthy of the GPU being installed.

Really you will need a new motherboard, and likely new CPU and RAM to go with it, otherwise it would be a latteral move.

 

[dwatterworth]

Ah my mistake. Same answer to the question unfortunately.

 

[Bgordy2013]

Thanks guys, that is unfortunate...