I need a bit of advice of a setup

[Stumps]

I currently looking for more grunt out of my AGP setup, I guess I'm getting greedy now.

I recently purchased a Sapphire X1950Pro 512MB AGP and I'm pretty happy with it's performance...but now I'm wondering how much of a bottleneck my A64 is (see sig)...

would it be worth getting a C2D E4300 or E6300 and Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA?

I'm not really familar with Asrock's products but they seem like the only choice for an AGP/C2D setup....

Are they as solid as Gigabyte boards?, this would have been a no brainer for me if the only Gigabyte board with similar specs, GA-8VT880P Combo, had C2D support.

I normally don't stray to far from Gigabyte products simply because I had such a good experience with them and I still have mobo's and Video cards from them that are nearly 10 years old and still work as good as the day I bought them.

what is the VSTA like as far as overclocking goes?

would my Antec TPII550 still be enougth for the Sapphire and a OC'd C2D?

 

[LittleNemoNES]

oops -- nevermind

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: gersson
nah -- go for an X2 3800+ if you want otherwise youd have to go with a PCI express card as well

I'm using a Skt 754 mobo so X2's aren't an option...as for needing a PCI-E card, well I wouldn't need one right now because the VSTA supports PCI-E and AGP, so I could still use my X1950Pro

I just want to get some opinions on whether or not the VSTA is a good motherboard or not.

 

[happy medium]

Originally posted by: Stumps
I currently looking for more grunt out of my AGP setup, I guess I'm getting greedy now.

I recently purchased a Sapphire X1950Pro 512MB AGP and I'm pretty happy with it's performance...but now I'm wondering how much of a bottleneck my A64 is (see sig)...

would it be worth getting a C2D E4300 or E6300 and Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA?

I'm not really familar with Asrock's products but they seem like the only choice for an AGP/C2D setup....

Are they as solid as Gigabyte boards?, this would have been a no brainer for me if the only Gigabyte board with similar specs, GA-8VT880P Combo, had C2D support.

I normally don't stray to far from Gigabyte products simply because I had such a good experience with them and I still have mobo's and Video cards from them that are nearly 10 years old and still work as good as the day I bought them.

what is the VSTA like as far as overclocking goes?

would my Antec TPII550 still be enougth for the Sapphire and a OC'd C2D?

Stumps I'd thought I"d post this for ya I don't know if you missed it.

part 1.....

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2810

part2.....

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2813

part3..

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2814