AGP and ULi?

Uncle Flappy

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Perhaps you geniuses can help me.

I am in the market for a new board. I would like to upgrade to an AMD64 but just purchased a GeForce 6800 AGP last year. 3 boards have caught my interest:
ASRock 939 Dual SATA
Abit UL8
Gigabyte GA-K8U-939

Questions:
Am I correct in choosing the ULi chipset as being the fastest that supports AGP?
Which of the three would you recommend, or am I missing something better?

Performance that supports AMD64 & AGP is my goal.

Thanks!

- Uncle Flappy
 

Greenman

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Don't know anything about the abit or Gigabyte, but the ASRock board seems to have a lot of problems.
 

dunkster

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I have the Asrock 939 board with a 9800Pro256.

Mine runs fine with AGP aperture at 64, 8X and fast-writes off - though I haven't tried other combinations. I've seen multiple posts indicating AGP should be set at 128 or lower with this board.

The only disappointment with my system is that I must run with command rate at 2T, but that problem may be due to the memory controller on my 3700+. Otherwise - thumbs up!

I know nothing about the other boards you listed.

Hope this helps!
 

Reapsy01

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I also have the Asrock board running expensive ram at 2T command. The board tops out at 250 fsb for me with 1.2 bios. If you do buy one get a 3 pin fan extension cable for your rear case fan as the header is miles away.

Using an AGP 6800gt which works fine at 8x with fastwrites on and 128meg thingy wosit. Only other minor gripe is it'sdamn tricky to get to the CMOS jumper when using an AGP card with this board. I ended up taking the card out each time.
 

OvErHeAtInG

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Originally posted by: Uncle Flappy
Perhaps you geniuses can help me.

I am in the market for a new board. I would like to upgrade to an AMD64 but just purchased a GeForce 6800 AGP last year. 3 boards have caught my interest:
ASRock 939 Dual SATA
Abit UL8
Gigabyte GA-K8U-939

Questions:
Am I correct in choosing the ULi chipset as being the fastest that supports AGP?
Which of the three would you recommend, or am I missing something better?

Performance that supports AMD64 & AGP is my goal.

Thanks!

- Uncle Flappy

I have the ASRock.

I'm thinking of sending it back and getting an MSI K8N Neo2-F. That was pretty much the best of the NF3 generation - so it has the performance and the AGP that you're looking for :)

I've never heard you have to keep your AGP Aperture so low on this, funny so many people would all of a sudden mention it here...

Edit, that said, the ASRock is really good for the money, especially if you're not trying to wring every last MHz out of your CPU.... a little quirky though. Stable once you get it going.
 

Uncle Flappy

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I have the ASRock.

I'm thinking of sending it back and getting an MSI K8N Neo2-F. That was pretty much the best of the NF3 generation - so it has the performance and the AGP that you're looking for :)


Well, after plenty of research, I took your advice. A new K8N Neo2-F nForce3 Ultra is on the way along with an AMD64 3700+ (San Diego). I just could not find enough data on the ULi boards nor could I bear to move to PCI Express after purchasing an AGP GeForce 6800 just a few months ago.

- Flappy
 

OvErHeAtInG

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Originally posted by: Uncle Flappy
I have the ASRock.

I'm thinking of sending it back and getting an MSI K8N Neo2-F. That was pretty much the best of the NF3 generation - so it has the performance and the AGP that you're looking for :)


Well, after plenty of research, I took your advice. A new K8N Neo2-F nForce3 Ultra is on the way along with an AMD64 3700+ (San Diego). I just could not find enough data on the ULi boards nor could I bear to move to PCI Express after purchasing an AGP GeForce 6800 just a few months ago.

- Flappy
Good call. Then when you want to go to PCIe, you can sell the motherboard and card together.... I'm keeping my Asrock for now, but there are a lot of tradeoffs with this thing. I'm just drooling over the new boards from DFI and Asus.