does kyro2 works with nforce2 mobo?

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: billy2003
this is ridiculous. my aopen kt600 refused to boot with the kyro2 in the agp but if i take it out, it would boot. anyone have any other idea..otherwise this board will be shipped back)

How about ditching the Kyro2 and getting something which uses 8x agp? As much as I loved my old Kyro2 (I have a FX5900 XT now) it appears it's pretty much hit and miss whether it will run on 8x motherboards.

 

[billy2003]

i can't do that, since the only other option would be a radeon 9600 pro or higher and those are overprice still i think..and no to geforce ..i wasn't impressd with their 2d quality...i'm getting the asrock..hopefully it will work.

 

[Peter]

My point exactly - if the Kyro is strapped to 2x AGP, a 4x/8x AGP mainboard that is in its right mind will refuse to fire it up.

 

[WobbleWobble]

The reason why it doesn't work has already been explained... but here is my experience.

I have a Kyro2 card and a nForce2 board. My Radeon was being RMA'd so I had no other video card so I tried my Kyro2. Simple answer, didn't work at all. But it didn't kill either the card or the board. I'm pretty sure it did fit, I would have remembered if it didn't fit.

 

[Peter]

That's because stupidly enough, the Kyro2 cards do have the key notches of a "universal" AGP card, claiming to be compatible to 4x/8x boards just as well as 1x/2x boards, even though they are configured to be limited to 1x/2x.

 

[billy2003]

Just got my asrock k7s8xe from newegg and got revision 3. booted up the kyro2 and so far its been rock solid and the sound is excellent. have not overclocking it yet but will.

 

[zodder]

Originally posted by: Superbike
My 4500 kyro2 would not work on a 845PE motherboard.

Oh no! Does anyone know if it works with the 865PE chipset?! I traded a small hdd for one to put in my upcoming 2.6C/865PE rig.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: zodder

Originally posted by: Superbike
My 4500 kyro2 would not work on a 845PE motherboard.

Oh no! Does anyone know if it works with the 865PE chipset?! I traded a small hdd for one to put in my upcoming 2.6C/865PE rig.

Nope. Won't work on any Intel chipset since 850/845, maybe earlier(don't recall which was first).

 

[CraigRT]

I have a PCI Kyro2 at work... willing to try it in my Soltek SL75FRN2

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: billy2003
Just got my asrock k7s8xe from newegg and got revision 3. booted up the kyro2 and so far its been rock solid and the sound is excellent. have not overclocking it yet but will.

When you are interested in getting the most out of your asrock the best place for information and the performance bios you will need is:-

ocworkbench

I think you will find the Asrock motherboards to be very stable, I've so far owned 2 K7S8X v1.0 (for my main pc and my second pc) and I then upgraded one of them to a K7S8XE+ for my main pc and I've never had problems with any of them!

I usually only buy Asus motherboards but when I heard they had started releasing budget motherboards under the Asrock name I had to get one and ended up with three.

Incase your wondering what kind of performance difference there is between the official and unofficial bios for the Asrock I did an article for my website:-

Asrock k7s8xe+ bios comparison

For extra stability get the official bios from the Asrock website but for a nice performance boost with overclocking options then get the unofficial bios instead.

 

[zodder]

Nope. Won't work on any Intel chipset since 850/845, maybe earlier(don't recall which was first).

Damn! I guess I'll have to look for an 8500 then. Would an AIW 8500 be good for a HTPC for a few years?

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: zodder

Nope. Won't work on any Intel chipset since 850/845, maybe earlier(don't recall which was first).

Damn! I guess I'll have to look for an 8500 then. Would an AIW 8500 be good for a HTPC for a few years?

sure!
my friend just bought an 8500DV and he loves it.. (the AIW card)

 

[billy2003]

ok i think i'm set for now. i'm running my 1800xp at 2100ghz at 200fsh at stock vcore. i think this one is a keeper for now until amd64 becomes cheap

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: billy2003
ok i think i'm set for now. i'm running my 1800xp at 2100ghz at 200fsh at stock vcore. i think this one is a keeper for now until amd64 becomes cheap

I'll be upgrading to amd64 as soon as Asrock marketing send me a nice new k8s8x!