What the hell is XGP?

[Username]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138249

BIOSTAR NF4UL-A9 ATX AMD Motherboard


Brand BIOSTAR
Model NF4UL-A9
Supported CPU
CPU Socket Type Socket 939
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 x2 (dual core), Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 and Sempron processors
FSB 1000MHz Hyper Transport (2000 MT/s)
Chipsets
North Bridge NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
Memory
Number of DDR Slots 4x 184pin DDR
DDR Standard DDR 400 (PC 3200)
Maximum Memory Supported 4GB
Dual Channel Supported Yes
Expansion Slots
AGP Slots None
PCI Express x16 1
PCI Express x1 2
PCI Slots 3
Other Slots 1 x XGP ????

[Johnmcl7]

Looking at the picture of the board I would say the XGP slot is an AGP riser slot, which will allow certain AGP cards to work with that motherboard.

John

[I4one]

yeah;
atleast they're not trying to pawni it off as true AGP - it's likely an emulated agp using the PCI bus, meant to tide you over till you can afford a $400 PCIe card

http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=NF4UL-A9

Xtreme Graphics Port is Biostar's unique engineering solution of adding limited AGP graphics card support to the nForce4 chipset. The XGP slot is not compatible with all AGP cards but has been tested with AGP cards listed below.

[Johnmcl7]

Waste of time I think, the VIA and ULI chipsets which have a native AGP slot are great but an AGP riser slot which works with a very limited amount of cards and even then with drastically reduced performance doesn't seem worth it. My motherboard does have one of these AGP risers but none of the cards I have are compatible with it, so I ended up buying a cheap PCI-E graphics card for troubleshooting.

John