An extension of hope for we who are bound by our AGP ports.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28456
All it takes is someone willing to take the time... and they'll make boocudles of money with it.
GeCube launches X1300 and X1600 for AGP
ALTHOUGH BOTH Nvidia and ATI are reluctant to openly speak about sales of graphics cards that fit into an AGP slot - the sad fact is that both companies don't publicly care about massive majority of their GPU sales. The reason why is a very simple one: they don't want to spend time and money on developing their high-end products for the AGP slot, so their spinner machine has to throttle on "idle" or "defensive" when it comes to the user-beloved, almost nine-year old slot...
Both X1300 and X1600 use very similar PCB, so GeCube slapped two GPU's on the very same AGP PCB and shipped them out. The simple named GC-RX1600PGA2-D3 is actually an RV530 based product, clocked at 500MHz for GPU core, while GC-RX1300GA2-D3 is an RV515LE based product, with the core running at 450MHz. Both boards come with 256MB of same DDR-II memory, but with different clocks on each board.
The X1600 product features two DVI outputs, while X1300 comes in more of a classical D-Sub+DVI combo. Also, X1600 core is being cooled by a fan and a copper heatsink, X1300 is cooled by a smaller fan&aluminium heatsink combo. Since these 90nano chips suck more power than measily 35W that AGP slot can provide, we have seen "Return of The Molex" in not so hip-hop version.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28456
All it takes is someone willing to take the time... and they'll make boocudles of money with it.