According to Fudzilla, Albatron will present GeForce 8s with a PCI connector next week at the Computex.
The photos of the two cards below are the GeForce 8500 GT and 8600 GT equipped with GDDR3 and an 8400 GS should also be released.
A PCI-E to PCI bridge made by Pericom is of course present (on the back of the card). While Nvidia has given up AGP with its DirectX 10 GPUs, obviously the question is being asked concerning the interest that such cards represent. However, we should keep in mind that a number of motherboards in mini-ITX format do not have PCI-E ports and that in the case of the Nettop Atom,
drastic limitations were imposed by Intel. The most recent PCI graphic card up until now and produced in significant volume has been the Radeon 9200 which has somewhat aged.
Otherwise, in terms of 3D performances, we can hardly expect any miracles. A few years ago, some manufacturers took the risk of offering motherboards equipped with a PCI-E x16 port in addition to an AGP port interfaced on the PCI bus (suffering from the same limitations), which at the time already represented a major bottle neck. We can only guess what it will be with recent GPUs. The only thing is that they support a large number of interesting functions contrary to the aging 945GC...
