… I have no idea what that is. It’s in an AGP slot, which, based on the name, I always assumed were only for graphics devices, but it doesn’t have a display out. It looks like it might have onboard memory… is it some kind of VRAM expansion for an iGPU? Very odd. Take it out and get some better pictures so someone can Google the text on it.
I’m going to take a guess and say this is an agp slot for an old graphics card. Going to scroll down in the comments now to see if I’m correct . Wish me luck
Edit: woo! I was right. I feel so old since none of you kids know what this is!
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cjoaneodo
Might be an old Aegia PhysX card before NVIDIA bought them out, the math for physics was off loaded to the Aegia card then sent back to the video card. Remember Red Faction Guerilla being able to leverage one of those well.
shrikelet
That looks similar to the old L2 “cache on a stick” expansion boards. That’s not what it is, but it does look simiar.
Marco-YES
It’s RAM for onboard graphics
redstern
No that’s definitely just RAM. But what it’s doing on an AGP card by itself I don’t know.
The only thing that comes to mind is maybe extra RAM for the onboard graphics?
EdenA7
Looks like a newborn graphics card
senorbolsa
AGP inline memory module, basically adds dedicated memory for your motherboards graphics chipset. Back when computers were significantly jankier and cooler.
RunalldayHI
It’s crazy to think that AGP was superior to PCI during that time and it died off anyway lol
Zetra3
This old man still working?
Doo_D
That’s the new rtx 1030
AlienMajik
RAM
ilpsxnus
Still rocking 3com ethernet.
TempusCarpe
The massive leap is current RAM speeds in relation to the onboard cache RAM on the CPU 128mb is impressive compared to 128kb likely on this old Intel chip. I do not know if current AMD integrated CPU/GPU/APUs can access that onboard CPU 128mb cache for GPU processing, but certainly a promising path for our future. Imagine running 128GB shared system DDR5 with a 128mb cache integrated APU using 90% of system RAM for GPU purposes.
notshadeatall
Graphic chip
Svvatzenegger
Geezus, 1997 what’s their PC back.
omxIs
I can’t be the only one who read the title in Patrick’s voice
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No.
Nope
Yeah that is clearly a 4090 ti
>!/s!<
Some sort of ancient sdram? How old is that PC?
Cache
That’s an AGP inline memory module.
Basically extra vram for onboard graphics.
… I have no idea what that is. It’s in an AGP slot, which, based on the name, I always assumed were only for graphics devices, but it doesn’t have a display out. It looks like it might have onboard memory… is it some kind of VRAM expansion for an iGPU? Very odd. Take it out and get some better pictures so someone can Google the text on it.
EDIT: Found it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGP_Inline_Memory_Module
I’m going to take a guess and say this is an agp slot for an old graphics card. Going to scroll down in the comments now to see if I’m correct . Wish me luck
Edit: woo! I was right. I feel so old since none of you kids know what this is!
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Might be an old Aegia PhysX card before NVIDIA bought them out, the math for physics was off loaded to the Aegia card then sent back to the video card. Remember Red Faction Guerilla being able to leverage one of those well.
That looks similar to the old L2 “cache on a stick” expansion boards. That’s not what it is, but it does look simiar.
It’s RAM for onboard graphics
No that’s definitely just RAM. But what it’s doing on an AGP card by itself I don’t know.
The only thing that comes to mind is maybe extra RAM for the onboard graphics?
Looks like a newborn graphics card
AGP inline memory module, basically adds dedicated memory for your motherboards graphics chipset. Back when computers were significantly jankier and cooler.
It’s crazy to think that AGP was superior to PCI during that time and it died off anyway lol
This old man still working?
That’s the new rtx 1030
RAM
Still rocking 3com ethernet.
The massive leap is current RAM speeds in relation to the onboard cache RAM on the CPU 128mb is impressive compared to 128kb likely on this old Intel chip. I do not know if current AMD integrated CPU/GPU/APUs can access that onboard CPU 128mb cache for GPU processing, but certainly a promising path for our future. Imagine running 128GB shared system DDR5 with a 128mb cache integrated APU using 90% of system RAM for GPU purposes.
Graphic chip
Geezus, 1997 what’s their PC back.
I can’t be the only one who read the title in Patrick’s voice
RTX 5090 Ti Super
It’s a graphic card.
No, this is Patrick
That’s RAM for a graphics card
bro has the gtx 20🔥