AGP and PCI-e board

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edm

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My current board (K8N Neo2 Plat) has been acting up and may need to be replaced soon. The problem is, I can't afford to upgrade from agp to PCI-e right now, but would like the option to do so down the road. I'm running a AIW X800XT on a A64 3500.

I was wondering if there are any good options out there? I have 1gig of Corsair ValueRam and do not need a board for overclocking. I'm just looking for something stable at a reasonable price.

One other question too. I would also like to replace the stock fan on the cpu while I'm doing the transfer. Any suggestuions on a good cheap fan?

Thanks
 
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Atheus

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ASrock boards are only great by a loose definition of 'great'. They are build by ASUS to an inferior standard in order to keep the price down - anything built to a high standard is labelled 'ASUS' and priced somewhat higher.

 
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grooge

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Originally posted by: nemesismk2
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081
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I also have a asrock 939 dual sata2 and think it's a very good motherboard. Pcie video card performance is excellent but agp performance isn't as good. Sata2 stability can be a problem with certain types of hard drives such as Samsung drives.
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Funny enough, I never had any problem with my samsung drive and sata2 on that board...
 
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nemesismk2

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Originally posted by: grooge
Originally posted by: nemesismk2
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081
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I also have a asrock 939 dual sata2 and think it's a very good motherboard. Pcie video card performance is excellent but agp performance isn't as good. Sata2 stability can be a problem with certain types of hard drives such as Samsung drives.
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Funny enough, I never had any problem with my samsung drive and sata2 on that board...
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I tried for ages to get my Samsung drive working properly without crashing and failed, in the end I just used my Sata2 drive as Sata instead. Which Samsung drive do you have and which settings (ide, sata, normal or strong sata2 driving) do you use? :)
 
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edm

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Really appreciate the responses all. Looks like a nice board for the money. I won't be running sata2 yet, so I'll cross that bridge when I come to it :)

Any recommendations on a good/QUIET sub $30 dollar cpu fan? I'm looking at this one here.
 
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acegazda

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cpu fan or cpu heatsink? If you have $30 to spend on a fan, then you're loaded. A <$30 cpu hsf would be the freezer 64 pro from arctic cooling. By the way, isn't the asrock mentioned above the ONLY agp and pci-e combo board?
 
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edm

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Sorry, I need heatsink+fan. I'm not sure how many other pci-e and agp boards there are, but I saw a couple more at newegg when searching, before I posted here. The asrock one actually caught my eye, so it's good to hear the positive feedback for it.
 
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acegazda

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Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
I've never understood why people when they have issues with their stuff, instead of RMAing it, they buy a new one..
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maybe they realized what they bought was total cr@p
 
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grooge

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The drive was was the 250gigs one, and I used strong driving force with sata2, but revert back to sata1 because I had to use a sata1 hdd and I did not want to go in BIOS to change setting everytime. I left the setting at strong anyway..

I sold this motherboard to my mom for her new system and got an Asus a8r-mvp (another supposely problematic board which still work very fine) and a x2 3800+. I changed the motherboard to have 1 more sata header, so I don't need to switch drive now...
 
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