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Ninja-Kreon2
30 Jun 2003, 3:10am
I was reading a review over at Hexus.net and got to thinking if there might be a way to put a couple USB slots on the beast-like 5900 Ultra. If you don't know about it (and shame if you don't :D ) it takes up two slots, one for AGP and one for PCI, for the cooling system. http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=554&page=1 for the info.

Feasible?
Geeky1
30 Jun 2003, 4:19am
or u could just get a single-slot 5900 ultra and put a usb bracket below it... :D
drowd
30 Jun 2003, 5:37am
heh, well put, i try to give my gfx card as much room as possible . . .
Geeky1
30 Jun 2003, 5:47am
M33... I agree with you. However, there's one little problem with that... 760MPX motherboards usually have 2 64 bit/66MHz PCI slots, and they're usually the first 2 slots directly under the AGP card. Thankfully this isn't a problem for me since I only have 1 66MHz card, but if I had 2, it would be a problem...
EQuito
30 Jun 2003, 5:55am
Originally posted by Geeky1
However, there's one little problem with that... 760MPX motherboards usually have 2 64 bit/66MHz PCI slots, and they're usually the first 2 slots directly under the AGP card.Why do they do that? or the AGP/PCI1 'sharing rule' doesn't apply to those boards?
Looks like they are to blame not NVidia...
Geeky1
30 Jun 2003, 6:07am
dunno why they do it... I've always assumed that it was simply because it was somehow more convenient. Personally, I find it irritating as hell... I'd rather have them at the bottom, and have them as 32 bit/33mhz backwards compatible slots, but then that would make too much sense...
EQuito
30 Jun 2003, 6:13am
Let me see if I get this right...

NVidia or not, you still cannot use PCI1 if an AGP card is present right?

So, what's the point of having two 64bit PCI slots then? :confused:
Geeky1
30 Jun 2003, 6:16am
dunno. Never tried it... all of my cards take up 2 slots anyhow (this is the price to be paid for Honking Big Cooling Solutions, A.K.A. HBCSs) so I can't try it now, otherwise I would because now I'm curious.
CCW
1 Jul 2003, 8:41pm
Originally posted by Geeky1
or u could just get a single-slot 5900 ultra and put a usb bracket below it... :D

this is the best solution ;)
Ninja-Kreon2
2 Jul 2003, 8:02pm
Originally posted by CCW


this is the best solution ;)

That wasn't the point of the post though :o