AGP PRO Card and Gigabyte Motherboard

[HMSDOC]

The manual for the Gigabyte 8KNXP motherboard shows the AGP slot and says that
for the insertion of a PRO card you need to remove a bit of plastic inserted
into one end of the slot. What is a PRO card? I am putting in a Radion 9800
"PRO" but there is semmingly nothing that goes from the card into the area
protected by the piece of plastic so I just left it in and assume that a "9800
PRO" is not a PRO card...so what is a PRO card and how is it different? Was it
correct to leave the little plastic protector piece in if no pins from the card
insert into the protected area of the slot?

Howard

 

[Dave M]

leave it in, I think pro is for a different style. I have 9800pro 256 in and
it does not utilize the extra soace removing the insert gives.

 

[Bas Ruiter]

The "pro" in AGP Pro refers to the fact that this slot has extra pins.
These pins are used to bring more power to an AGP Pro card.

The pro in your "Radeon 9800 Pro" refers to the fact that (if I recall
correctly) the core and memory runs faster than the normal version of
the Radeon card and/or it has more pipelines.

In short, the pro of the AGP slot and the card refer to two different
things.