Does the E8000 server board support the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)?
No, not in the traditional sense. High-end graphics are not as important on a real server platform; therefore, Intel engineers have used the AGP bus for a different purpose better suited for real server applications. The E8000 server board uses the Intel 21150 AGP to PCI bridge chip which uses the AGP bus to create two 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI slots. This provides two things; first, two high bandwidth-capable slots for I/O intensive applications or add-in cards such as fiber-channel disk I/O controllers or gigabit ethernet controllers. Second, this provides an additional, dedicated PCI bus for peripherals which could benefit from the dedicated bandwidth such as network cards or RAID cards.
