During Computex we saw photos of several Intel 925x boards equipped with both PCI Express and AGP slots. Since Intel’s new chipset doesn’t offer simultaneous support for PCI-E and AGP, there was a serious question as to how Gigabyte and ECS (the two manufacturers with boards on display) were accomplishing it.

At the time, I speculated to Tuan that one or both of the companies might have used an AGP connector on a PCI slot, as the only other solution would seem to be an AGP-to-PCI-Express bridge chip that left only one of the slots useable at a time, the latter option being only a proposed theory, as no such design exists to our knowledge).