SAM and other new hardware - missing modern graphics card slots?

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AndyFC wrote:
Why are we stuck with PCI slots and the limited array of graphics cards? Surely an AGP slot or PCI-X wouldn't be too hard to implement now, or am I missing something?

Enough people have already said that AGP is on the way out. With the Amigaone, its 2x AGP slot means that newer AGP cards aren't supported anyway, but PCI graphics cards are.

BTW, I'm working on supporting better cards.

Hans

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Tripitaka wrote:
AGP may be dead but I can still buy a new  NVidia 6 series card with 128Mb for less then £25 from dabs or novatech. Sure floats my boat more than a ancient Voodoo card.  :roll:

Unfortunately NVidia won't give anyone the developer doumentation required to write drivers, so you won't be able to use it in an Amiga. You can get Radeon graphics cards as plain PCI (I have a Radeon HD 2400 pro PCI card myself) and NVidia cards too.

Do you really think that they should waste their time developing hardware with AGP when PCI-Express chipsets are available? I certainly don't.

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NovaCoder wrote:
So do people think that SAM will (eventually) go straight to PCI-Express and skip AGP?

Why bother with AGP when PCI-Express solutions are readily available? I'm expecting them to jump to PCI-Express. Particularly if they continue using embedded chips. PCI-Express is more useful for embedded systems than AGP since AGP is for graphics only, but PCI-E is generic.

Also, am I correct in thinking that you cannot plug an AGP card in a PCI slot?

Correct.

Hans