AGP problem or Help Design My System

[Hubris471]

I currently have a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP. Other than a noisy fan on the AGP section, it has been working well. Strangely enough, some Sandra software I run suggests that the AGP is not enabled. My ATI video driver seems to agree with that as it won't allow me to set the Radeon 8500LE at AGP(for stability it says). I may want a somewhat nicer board anyway.

If I replace it, I would like a board that has stability, mucho connectivity and real bus throughput at 400Mhz with all memory slots filled. Then a CPU, I prefer Athlons, with a good price ratio and about a Gig or so of matching memory.

What dya think?

 

[Fern]

Welcome to the forum Hubris! My suggestion is prolly irrelevent, but will serve to give ya a bump till real help comes around. Anyway, I had a mobo once with the bios set for PCI as primary graphics even though I had a G4 Ti 4200 in the AGP slot? Wacky huh? I assume this happened by a resetting of the cmos or some default in bios. Maybe check your bios to see if something similar is causing this prob for you.

If you replace the mobo, get a nForce 2 with FSB 400 (I've got a Abit NF7-S), get PC 3200 ram and a Barton 2500+. Since the board and ram support FSB 400 you can up the FSB of the Barton from 333 to 400 (or 166 to 200) thus turning the Barton into a 3200+. Talk about bang for the buck!