Hi,
I have an ECS K8T890-A AMD 939 pin motherboard. It is equipped with what they call an AGP Express graphics slot. This has limited compatibility with graphics cards. I have an Asus GeForce 5700LE and documentation from the ECS website shows it has compatibility with the ELSA GLADIAC FX736 (FX 5700) and the MAXSUN GeForce 5700-128MB so I think there's a fair chance the ASUS will work.

As a test, I was thinking of just putting the card in the AGP slot, connecting the board to a power supply and seeing if it gives me a display. Do you think this will be a worthwhile test?

Any comments/suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Pavesa

Do you realize that AGP Express is not true AGP? It's nothing more than a way to run an AGP card thru standard PCI. In other words, the performance suffers significantly compared to actual AGP.

"AGP Express
Not a true AGP interface, but rather a way to allow an AGP card to be connected over the legacy PCI bus on a PCI Express motherboard. It is a technology found on ECS motherboards, and is used as a selling point for AGP card owners who want a new motherboard but do not want to be forced to buy a PCIe graphics card as well (most new motherboards do not provide AGP slots, only PCIe slots). An "AGP Express" slot is basically a PCI slot (with the electrical power of two) in the AGP form factor. While it offers backward compatibility with AGP cards, its disadvantages include incomplete support (some AGP cards do not work with AGP Express) and reduced performance - the card is forced to use the shared PCI bus at its lower bandwidth, rather than having exclusive use of the faster AGP."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accele...

You can cretainly try what you're proposing to see if you get a display, but if gaming with it is your ultimate goal, you're gonna be very disapointed.

To expand on what jam states above the manual for that board simply states it has tested some cards for compatibility.

IF you already own an AGP 4x/8x graphics card I believe it would be safe to try it. If you don't currently own one then buy a PCIe x16 card.

Hi Jam,

oh.. I didn't know about the PCI stuff.. definitely not the way to go then. I have a PC with a GeForce 7600GS about 14 months old. Probably best to get a newer card for that PC (Athlon M2 Processor) and put the older 7600GS into this board.. I guess it would work "full speed" on a PCI Express card..