Anyone know anything about this motherboard?

[Rapid Fire]

ABIT "KV8 Pro" K8T800 Pro Chipset Motherboard for AMD Athlon64 CPU

1. How does it perform for the latest 3d games?
2.can it take a radeon 9700 pro?
3. how upgradeable is it?

 

[allanon1965]

link is broken....

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: allanon1965
link is broken....

 

[ts3433]

There's not a whole lot of performance difference between A64 motherboards--I'd get one of the value NF3 250 boards from Chaintech/Epox/Soltek if you can find them cheaper.

Any board with a 4x/8x AGP slot can, of course, take your 9700 Pro.

As for upgradeability, it can take any S754 CPU (up to the 3700+) and all AGP 8x graphics cards. You can also put 2 DIMMs in there before you can't run DDR400.

 

[Rapid Fire]

this is the motherboard im looking for:

1. can be upgraded
2.good for games
3.good sound card
4. efficient
5. fits any graphics card

if i could just get a link that would be great. possibly from newegg if they have them there

 

[ts3433]

1. You'll find about the same upgradeability with any S754 motherboard and most S939s. They'll take whatever their respective socket can accomodate.
2. See earlier: "There's not a whole lot of performance difference between A64 motherboards"....
3. Nothing has Soundstorm now, so you'll be looking at the same onboard Realtek codec for anything. Your typical onboard sound, which is fine for all but the highest-end speakers.
4. What kind of "efficiency" are you looking for? That's some new "key" feature of a motherboard I've never heard of.
5. You will never find a motherboard to fit "any" graphics card without taking a performance hit--one exists for Intel LGA775 with both PCIe x16 and AGP, but the AGP slot is run off the PCI bus. Decide what you want and then buy the board--if you need to buy a S939 CPU with an AGP NF3 mobo now but want PCIe later, then swapping the motherboard is your best option.

 

[Rapid Fire]

so, should I just get the motherboard i posted in the beginning?

 

[ts3433]

I'd get one of those I suggested, because they have the nForce3 250 chipset. The KV8 Pro is probably fine too, but you pay more for the Abit name. The ones I mentioned have great quality too, though.

 

[Rapid Fire]

-thanx to everyone who helped me

another question. if i dont have all the parts to start building my pc can i just put the parts i do have in? I have the psu the graphics card and the hard drive

 

[Rapid Fire]

anyone?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Rapid Fire
anyone?

I don't understand your question. Your system will not function without a motherboard, PSU, CPU, RAM, and video card (and a hard drive with an operating system on it, if you want it to actually *do* something, unless you want to boot Knoppix or something like that).

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Rapid Fire
-thanx to everyone who helped me

another question. if i dont have all the parts to start building my pc can i just put the parts i do have in? I have the psu the graphics card and the hard drive

if you get a new motherboard that supoprts your old cpu, you can do a swap no problem. but you do need ram, ie. ddr ram of your choice. that would be probably your most basic upgrade. you would even see some performance increase as i did when i received my new mobo a couple months back. a jumper setting enabled support for my old 900mhz Duron and with the ram i basically got a head start on my build.