Mod Idea. USB ports on two slot NV35 (5900 Ultra)

Ninja-Kreon2Ninja-Kreon2
edited July 2003 in Hardware
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?

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2003
    or u could just get a single-slot 5900 ultra and put a usb bracket below it... :D
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited June 2003
    heh, well put, i try to give my gfx card as much room as possible . . .
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2003
    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...
  • EQuitoEQuito SoCal, USA
    edited June 2003
    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...
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2003
    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...
  • EQuitoEQuito SoCal, USA
    edited June 2003
    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:
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2003
    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.
  • CCWCCW Suffolk, UK
    edited July 2003
    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-Kreon2Ninja-Kreon2
    edited July 2003
    Originally posted by CCW


    this is the best solution ;)

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