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I'm looking for a recommendation for a cpu/mobo combo w/ both AGP and PCIe

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bupkus

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I'm looking for a recommendation for a cpu/mobo combo w/ both AGP and PCIe.

Person with RADEON 9800 Pro playing UT2004 wants more speed and frames than his current platform of a Barton @ 2.0GHz, 2x512 sticks of PC2700 and EP-8K5A2+ mainboard with single memory controller.

Please make > one recommendation for these parts.
 
what do you want to do? whole new system or use some of those parts? if you wanna use someof those parts your only gonna keep the video or run some SERIOUSLY slow ram on a 939

new cheap system
ASRock 939Dual SATA2
S939 Venice 3000+
1Gb DDR400
keep the video card

new good system
A8N-SLI Premium
S939 SanDiego 3700+
2Gb DDR400
2x 6600GT's in SLI or if money is there get a couple of 7800GT's


just curious why are you running so much voltage for 2.3Ghz? im at 2.27 on a winchester at 1.4-1.45
 
There is only one motherboard with full speed AGP and PCIe, thats the ASRock dual SATA II. It's a very good value board.
 
Originally posted by: KBTuning
what do you want to do? whole new system or use some of those parts? if you wanna use someof those parts your only gonna keep the video or run some SERIOUSLY slow ram on a 939

new cheap system
ASRock 939Dual SATA2
S939 Venice 3000+
1Gb DDR400
keep the video card

new good system
A8N-SLI Premium
S939 SanDiego 3700+
2Gb DDR400
2x 6600GT's in SLI or if money is there get a couple of 7800GT's


just curious why are you running so much voltage for 2.3Ghz? im at 2.27 on a winchester at 1.4-1.45
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That's what the bios and cpuz report the default voltage to be, although AMD is reporting it as 1.4v. *shrugs*
 
Ok, it seems that many owners of the above recommended AsRock find it problematic. How I hate that word.

Perhaps I should just look at the boards with AGP and a 754-pin Sempron; the AsRock isn't recommended as an overclocker.
 
Originally posted by: bupkus
Ok, it seems that many owners of the above recommended AsRock find it problematic. How I hate that word.

Perhaps I should just look at the boards with AGP and a 754-pin Sempron; the AsRock isn't recommended as an overclocker.
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I don't think I'd call it problematic, it does have some quarks, but pretty much all boards do. The biggest problem the board has is what people expect it to be. It's a value board, a very good value board, but still a value board. A lot of people get upset when it won't clock as high as a DFI, but it was never intended to clock that well. I have one, and I read about it for weeks before buying it because I had the same concerns you do. After running it for a couple weeks without a hitch, I'm very happy with it. If you're looking for a ton of bells and whistles, and super high overclocks, then you don't want it, if on the other hand you're looking for a pretty darn good cheap board, this is it.
 
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