Whatever Happened to the AGP Slot on PC Motherboards? 

What was your first AGP graphics card and what game did you buy it for? Mine was the TNT2 Ultra and I think it was Half Life that really knocked my socks off at the time :D

i wanted a video just like this while i was remembering agp slots, i got it! thanks

great vid, i'm actually in the process of setting up a 9800gtx+ a mate gave me a little while ago. its only been used a few hours, theres a long story behind it but the card is working perfectly. sadly none of the spare power supplies that ive got spare have enough pci-e power plugs for that beast! one of my other psus need to donate themselves...

Excellent vid as always mate. AGP is where my heart lies. The first 3D card I owned was a TNT2 Ultra Maxi Gamer Xentor 32. I think I paid £179.99 back then. I think I'm fairly on the same time line as you when it comes to nostalgia. If memory serves I'd have been playing HL, Q2 and Q3 on that. Actually, I did have a Voodoo 1 from a mate but it ran like crap on our Cyrix 100mhz so I sold that on at school. Actually, the very first accelerator I bought was a 16mb Banshee I used on my P166, then I bought the Tnt2 when I went to my Athlon Slot A K7. I forgot about the banshee. I wasn't that impressed by it and upgraded pretty quickly to the K7. It's difficult to remember exact dates of purchases back then. How are you and yours over there keeping? Are you allowed out and about yet? I'm still working from home and schools are still pretty much closed except keyworkers kids. I've made some retro PC purchases lately, but luckily the sellers were nice and will keep them till things get better before posting. I'm a wimp and I hate germs lol.

I still have a couple of AGP graphic cards stored in a box. the best option to use them is to buy LGA775 motherboards, they are a few of them with AGP connectors and supporting dual-core CPUs

love old tech still got old pcs some where that work in my shed

4x agp really ushered in the next generation of gfx acceleration. Pci-E 16x was rediculous. I still have a 9800gtx+ 512mb for an xp system. It was the Gts 250 clocked lower. Saved around $100. It's still kicking because Evga

Operating systems still detect PCI Express as PCI device, because PCI Express is implemented in such a way that it will identify it self as PCI device, so it will be backwards compatible with older OS, even Windows 98. Some of the early native PCI Express graphics cards (GeForce 6 series and Radeon X300/500/800/1000 series) have Windows 98 drivers.

@4:45 that's a a7600gt i had that one. it was very good at the time. but the first had to be tnt2 riva. then geforce 4, then fx5200.

What does Asus A7V8XX GPU slot does have?

Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 and 10 1507 still haves support for AGP graphics cards and AGP bus. Not sure why they kept support for AGP.

My first was S3 trio 3D that i gott with a P2 333mhz ,32mb sdr , 8ish gb . and first one i did buy for that system, was a Nvidia Geforce 256 annihilator pro with 3d glasses 😍

I had a GeForce 2 Ti and a 6600gt agp , goat times

"Quake could just about be run on a 486DX4/100". Such high requirements! It'll run on a 486DX/33. It's a slideshow with sound breaking up, but it runs. It will not, however, run on a 486SX at all. If you try, it'll dump you back to DOS complaining it can't find the FPU.

My 1st PC build used a VooDoo 3 and a SoundBlaster ..... I feel old now.

My first Windows PC was a hand-me-down Gateway...wow, I forget the model number. I know it had a P3 500, A CD Drive, a floppy drive, ab 8GB HDD, 64MB sDRAM and an 8MB Voodoo 2. Wow I loved that thing. I added a CDRW a year or so after getting it, along with 3 more 64MB sticks of RAM for a whopping 256MB's! After a couple of years I did pull out the old P3 along with the rest of the components to build my first desktop PC. Wow was I terrified, and eventually brought it to a PC shop to show me where to plug in the wires as I was clueless and none of the wires were labeled. I was so nervous the idea of simply tracing the wires didn't even occur to me. 2 days and $20 bucks later my new PC was up and running, but wow. I'll never forget when I first wiped it, reinstalled Windows 98 2E and put in the first disc for Baldur's Gate 1. The intro may be dated now, but oh my goodness did it blow me away. I was used to Playstation 1 graphics, but this was an entirely new level of polygon heaven. I remember looking through PC World for reviews on parts and saw a 512MB Hercules GPU which completely blew my mind. A GPU that was half a Gigabyte? Who the heck would need all that? That's crazy. For $3999.99...Yep, a kid can dream. Oh, I had the original sticker that came with the Gateway in 1998, and the MSRP was over $3000 bucks. Less than the Hercules card, but still a boatload back then. I got into POV Ray for a while as well. I recall playing with a chess piece, on angled flat ground, and a grey rectangle wall on the right running from the background to the foreground to add a more shadow to the pic. It took 5 hours to render. 1 Frame. Of a chess piece with a completely plain angled rectangle. 7 hours. Oh the power of the P3 and a Voodoo 2! Heh, and folding for cancer research. That was kinda cool as well. The next GPU I remember was a Radeon X700 Pro 256MB, but can't recall what cards I had in-between the Voodoo and that. Lol, it's bugging me. You'd think I'd remember the the GPU I used in my first build...Oh well. Anyway, nice to know why they scrapped the AGP standard. I am at a bit of a loss as to why they didn't just scale up the AGP standard, as it was far superior to PCI up to x8. Not that it matters with the tiny BUS widths for the amount of memory they are putting on cards now. 16GB with a 128GB BUS... _"Yeah, but the extra cache makes up for it and gives it an effective spe..."_ No, no it doesn't. It bottlenecks constantly at high resolutions and/or high refresh rates, as does 192 bit with 12. This overcharging while underspec'ing crucial parts of GPU's really needs to stop, but that's another story for another day.

What case are you using there?

when theres performance rivalries between 2 industry titans it always feels they're part of the same ciorporate umbrella and really 1 company the whole time with their designated too slow to justify closing and recouping losses they knowibly caused

Nostalgia VGA, I have Intel 740 and Riva TNT 2 32Mb with Pentium II 333 Mhz. 😁😁😁

what WASNT fun was finding out your agp wasnt theright one 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, and they wernt all playing friendly with all the diff gpus

Still using a agp card.

So it was slow ?? so why Intel created it ?

Thats not true about quake and the 486 dx4 100mhz.. my 486 dx4 100mhz witch had a sis motherboard had 3xpci 2xisa and 2xisa vlb and i had a ISA ess soundcard and a pci sis VGA card witch i added the extra 1mb vram totalling 2mb vram and i had 16mb system ram and it played doom and duke Nukem 3D and quake just fine!! Sure quake was at the lowest settings at 640x480 but it averaged 20fps some levels was faster others slower but not as low as 8fps lol the dx4 was a beast of cpu compared to the dx2 66 was as good as the Pentium 66mhz.. especially when you are in dos not windows 95 and it run 98 pretty well for what it was especially when i added upto 32mb system ram..

a 4670 or 3850/3870 would be 2008/2007 cards not 2011. And the Geforce 7 series was not 2009.. not even close.. try 2005. Did you even live through this age how could you murder the dates so bad?

False this photo acelerator

Estrogen included?

I have a PCIe to AGP adapter and an Athlon XP 2400+ with GeForce 960 and 2 GB 😁 Technically feasible but more for show than use as it doesn't do much good as the CPU is too slow. 🥱