Buses for your Graphics, please you look :)

madness 3D · Post by **madness 3D** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 15:03

Its a bit sad but i'd like to know the general level of "techiness" on this forum.

I have an AGP card because when i built my PC that was the standard, i know i could go up to PCI - E but that would require a new mobo and gfx card, so i might as well get a newer processor in a newer slot and then i'll need new ram, oh and a new copy of windows too...

So go on,
PCI - E
AGP
PCI (please no)
Are you with the bus revolution or not?

xeon_1 · Post by **xeon_1** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 15:12

my main gaming machine pci-e in my old gaming machine agp
the old one is now my dads pc

shifty_powers · Post by **shifty_powers** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 15:19

madness 3D wrote: I have an AGP card because when i built my PC that was the standard, i know i could go up to PCI - E but that would require a new mobo and gfx card

No it wouldn't

Asrock had a pretty solid motherbaord, (i used to have one), that provided both agp and pci-e on one board, without being a complete fudge

madness 3D · Post by **madness 3D** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 15:23

cool might look into it
do you know what slot it is???
(cpu)

BugMeister · Post by **BugMeister** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 15:31

current PC - AGP

..I'll get all the whistles and bells later on..

shifty_powers · Post by **shifty_powers** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 15:36

madness 3D wrote:cool might look into it
do you know what slot it is???
(cpu)

well they did have one for both socket 939 and socket 775. Iirc they did have one for socket am2 as well.

what processor are you using and i'll point you in the right direction?

madness 3D · Post by **madness 3D** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 15:37

I've got a 939 athlon 64 3200+
thx for your help btw

shifty_powers · Post by **shifty_powers** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 15:55

Well here is the spec for one of their boards...

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?M ... al-VSTA&s=

And not knowing where you live, but here is somewhere you can buy ti from...

newegg

You might need to do a bit of shopping around.... (sorry this was a very quick search. Working on essay atm)

The important thing you are looking for is the Northbridge: ULi® M1695

madness 3D · Post by **madness 3D** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 17:24

I have looked and i'm very tempted

unfortunately from what i've read there not being produced anymore, and everywhere that lists them is out of stock, might have to have a look on ebay...

shifty_powers · Post by **shifty_powers** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 18:01

well, tbh, s939 motherboards fullstop are starting to become thin on the ground. I used to have the dual sata2 and it was solid as a rock and easy to use. If you don't want to upgrade the rest of your components just yet i fully reccomend it

spaceweedaddict · Post by **spaceweedaddict** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 18:31

I voted AGP because If people still were making good cards for it then I could have saved $600(upgrade)

Java Jawa · Post by **Java Jawa** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 18:40

PCI-E. Will remain that until new mobo tech comes out and I get a new PC [I buy/build new PCs whenever major mobo tech is released]

madness 3D · Post by **madness 3D** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 18:53

shifty_powers wrote:well, tbh, s939 motherboards fullstop are starting to become thin on the ground. I used to have the dual sata2 and it was solid as a rock and easy to use. If you don't want to upgrade the rest of your components just yet i fully reccomend it

Thanks for the advice,
what i'll do i'll get one and that always gives me the option to get a PCI Express Graphics card (maybe an 8 series) But i may only install it when i need it (my machines happy now but its always there when i need it)

Thanks again I will have a go at gettiing one off ebay (i have my sights set now)

shifty_powers · Post by **shifty_powers** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 19:02

Heh well BDStyle has my old sata2, (old room mate

), so ask him how it is... There were rumours that they were going to produce a card that sits in a 'future cpu slot' that exists on the mb to support am2 sockets, but whether they did or not i couldn't say...

madness 3D · Post by **madness 3D** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 19:07

I had a look at that future cpu slot thing
(thought it was the agp slot until i looked closer)
i looked and couldn't find any actual product anywhere just a load of people saying they couldn't get them
i'll pm "BDStyle" at some point and have a chat
thx

shifty_powers · Post by **shifty_powers** » Sun, 29. Apr 07, 19:13

Heh, yeah it wouldn't suprise me. Whats better for them, that you just buy some upgtrade card, or a whole new motherboard? It's a good idea, just not for the company's bottom line

and if you pm BDStyle, mention me name. I'm very good friends with him and he's more likely to respond

BDStyle · Post by **BDStyle** » Mon, 30. Apr 07, 00:22

What's this, I'm getting accosted by random forum goers now?

Heh glad to put my limited (no where near the knowledge level than shifty has on pc's) opinion.

The board rocks

I replied to the interest in it but I could only give a general idea on the board since I'm no where near uber enough with hardware than you are. Suffice to say its certainly doing its job

madness 3D · Post by **madness 3D** » Mon, 30. Apr 07, 20:00

I was just looking at my alternative which is a £700 upgrade
when i came across this

Its the AM2 port for the mobo thought i should plop it on here

shifty_powers · Post by **shifty_powers** » Mon, 30. Apr 07, 20:31

Fantastic. Eh, BDStyle, there's a thought for you.

As i thought, it gives you some DDR2 ports as well. don't forget that the memory controller for amd64 processors is built into the processor, so you wouldn't be able to use ddr with an am2 socket processor. (and ddr2 has a notch in a different place to ddr).

Go for it my son

EDIT: though if you are going to spend 700, they do a socket775 version. No idea if it is core2duo compatible mind.

madness 3D · Post by **madness 3D** » Mon, 30. Apr 07, 20:36

EDIT: though if you are going to spend 700, they do a socket775 version. No idea if it is core2duo compatible mind.

Its a bit late
I am now the proud owner of an Asrock 939 Dual-SATA2 PCI Express & AGP mobo
Got it on Ebay and the guy said if it didn't work i can send it back for a full refund

Think i'll get the adaptor for use in the future

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