AGP + PCI Exp + Dual Core?

[Amaron]

Hey I tried searching for info on this but I wasn't having much luck finding specifics.

Basically my question is are there any motherboards that can support a dual core cpu (amd or intel is fine) that have an agp slot and a pci express slot. I'm hoping to upgrade to a dual cpu but I really don't want to upgrade my video card yet. So I figured I'd check if such a motherboard exists at least. Thanks for any help.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Look down the thread list page a few lines.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1637097&enterthread=y

ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 is the one people are going for.


There were very few boards made that supported both AGP and PCIe, many of them did it by hacking a slot in with a bridge chip and made it so performance could only be dismal.

 

[imported_killuminati]

for intel teh Asrock 775Dual-VSTA : ( $57 )
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157092

supports Core 2 Duo , DDR1 and DDR2 , AGP and PCIe .

Peace & ciao !!!

 

[Lord Evermore]

The VIA chipset in the 775-Dual boards however only supports PCIe x4 electrically. An x16 board will fit in the slot and work, but it will only have 4 lanes of bandwidth. That's not a serious issue really, but one to keep in mind. x4 still has as much bandwidth as AGP8X, but as graphics cards get faster you reach the point where that might not be enough.