Is there an adapter ?

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

Customer: hello ? yes, i have bought an new GraficsCard to play better games. its an Ati Radeon X1900. the person in the pc-store told me it would be no problem to play every game on market with that card. but it needs an AGP slot. i just noticed i dont have that one in my computer. i only have standard PCI and a few ISA slots. is there an adapter from AGP to PCI or ISA ?
Me: *mute* MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Customer: hello ?
me: *loooool*
customer: hello.. is there anyone ?
me: *tries to behave* *unmute* hello ? ah. yea. i had some problems with the phone. no, there is no adapter from agp to pci. you'd need to buy an new computer.
customer: can i just solder out one of the ISAs, i dont need them, an put an AGP onto the mainboard ?
me: *mute* *snort with laughter* . o O (thats not true. is it ?) LOOOOL!
customer: that shouldnt be a bit problem i guess. hm ?
me: *takes a deep breath* *unmute* oh. no. that wont work. that would kill your motherboard. to put this card into your PC, you'd need an new Motherboard. For a new motherboard you'd need an new CPU because a 486 CPU wont fit in ANY other motherboard. also the EDO-Dimms wont fit into new motherboards. so you'd need to buy an whole new computer. you might be able to keep the 150mb Harddrive and the 2x CDRom. but i dont think that would make lot of sense.
customer: do you have an CLUE what that would COST ? there MUST be another way!
me: sure. give back the graficscard and dont play games.
customer: why cant i play with this computer ?
me: oh. maybe because some games need up to 4gb free disk space which is about 40x more than you have at all. maybe because these games need about 3ghz of CPU speed which is about 50x the speed you have. or maybe because they ask for 1gb ram which is 32x more than you have and if i start thinking hard, i would find a few more things.
customer: oh... well, then i guess i'd need to buy an new computer.

Comments

[pantherchild.livejournal.com]

~Hahahahaaaaaaaa!

~*rereads*

~HAHAHHAAAAA.

~I hate people. :-D ~

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Heh, the new PC would probably cost less than the guy payed for an X1900. Which isn't even AGP (It's 16x PCI-E only)

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

oh. there is also an AGP version afaik.

[major-error.livejournal.com]

"...and we were that close to locating the stupidity singularity. Alas, the caller hung up..."

This beats the call I had back when doing support for an ISP--caller couldn't understand why he needed a modem to use dial-up. Hung up on me in a huff *after* I had already gotten payment info for a full year of service and had the sysadmin enable the account!

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

No AGP version for the X1900, ATI's fastest AGP part is the X800GTO. NVidia is the only company making a truly high-end AGP part.

(oops on the Anon)

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

hmm.. ok *shrugs* iam not a gamer so... i dont really care :) but good to know *G*
however. AGP is FAR too slow for REAL high-end grafic

PCI-X
1066 MB/s
at 2.0 2.1GB/s up to 4.2GB/s (in future)
with "PCI-X 1066" 8GB/s (in future)

PCI-Express
1x 250MB/s
4x 1GB/s
16x 4GB/s

AGP
AGP 1X 266 MB/s
AGP 2X 533 MB/s
AGP 4X 1066 MB/s
AGP 3.0 (8x) up to 2.1GB/s (in future)

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

I'm no serious gamer either, but I follow the hardware just to keep my HW Guru rep intact.

For what I play, my Radeon 9650 handles things just fine (Mostly WoW).

[jecook]

np, it's fixed. I lurv how LJ likes expriing cookies at completely random times... ::snorts::

[cmdrproteus.livejournal.com]

I could've sworn that was the beginning of a crank call :D...

Soldering an AGP port on the motherboard in place of the ISA...that is gold right there

[jamoche]

The only thing I find unusual about this guy is that he actually asked before destroying his computer; I've seen enough stories where people cut their expansion cards to fit and then try to return the card because it's "broken".

[jjjiii]

Yeah, I just snapped a few pins off, and it fits in the slot now. What, those pins weren't important, were they? Oh... Well, do you think I'm going to pay for this now?

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's better than the friend of mine who once swore blind he'd seen 64 bit ISA cards.

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

aeh.. i HAVE an 64bit ISA card. they are FULL LENGHT and have an GREY slot.
For example some old "magnetic resonance tomograph"-Controller-Cards work on 64bit ISA
my old 64bit E-ISA Card is an NIC for the DK2825 Terminal-Server from 1974

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

That's a neat trick on a 16 bit bus.

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

well. these cards wouldnt fit into the 16bit ISA slot ;)
these cards only fit into the 64bit ISA slot which is actually 1/3 longer than the 16bit ISA slot and double-rowed. (one contact over the other with an 1/2milimeter spare-place inbetween. of course on BOTH sides of the slot)
These systems normally dont even have an standard 16bit ISA slot at all.