Any Graphics card which has AGP and PCI slot provisioning?

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gopikrish

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My mobo is MSI K8T Neo2. And I am current having Radeon 9600 Graphics card. I heard Nvidia Geforce 7800GS, ATI Radeon x1950 pro, or the ATI Radeon HD3850 are the best cards (AGP) available.
1) Is this X1950 from Radeon only a PCI card or is it available also in AGP card? Because when you click this link and read the specs it says "Native PCI Express x16 bus interface"

2) And is there any card which can be put into AGP slot as well as PCI or PCI express slot? Like for eg. my current mobo has AGP slot i think and in future I can put the same card in latest mobo's which has PCI or PCI express slots? Are the card's have such feature(both AGP and PCI provisioning)? Or latest mobo's have the provision for AGP slot?

Thanks.
 
AGP, PCI and PCI-E are physically different so they are not cross compatible. The performance from a PCI-E card is significantly better than an equivalent AGP one so if you are likely to upgrade your motherboard in the near future my advice would be to wait and get a PCI-E card. I could only find the x1950 as a PCI-E card. Alot of component retailers are fasing out their stocks of AGP cards anyway.
 
And I am not upgrading my card now... Suppose if my card fails then I am planning to buy a suitable card which can be used in the current mobo and also in new latest mobo (incase old mobo fails and I had to buy new one)

X1650 under Features it says.. "AGP 8x configurations also supported with AGP-PCI-E external bridge chip"

So the same card can be used in both AGP slot mobo as well as PCI-E slot mobo ? And if so, does the card come with that external bridge chip? And is this a good card?

Maybe I can go with a PCI card so that even latest mobo's have PCI slots? And if so suggest a good PCI card please.
 
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