Looking for perfect match for my 6800GT AGP

[Tylanner]

I want to keep using my DDR1 and AGP card, and looking for something that will not limit my card on games like HL2 and Oblivion.

I'd prefer socket 939 or AM2, but the all sockets are available with AGP in some for or another...

I was looking at the Athlon 64 3500+ Manchester...

And ideas?

 

[jswjimmy]

well AM2 is out, as it is ddr2 only. 939 only had a couple good boards with full speed agp (most boards with agp now are crippled and dont preform well). you might be able to get a asrock 939 dual sata or dual vsta, they had good agp support.

 

[harpoon84]

To be blunt, the 6800GT will be more of a bottleneck than the 2.3GHz XP in any semi recent games, especially Oblivion which is VERY shader heavy and would bring a GF6 class card to it's knees even at medium detail. Even with a CPU upgrade, you'll only be looking at low/medium details at most - if you're happy with that then fair game, but a far better upgrade for 3D games would be to keep your current CPU but get an X1950 AGP card. You might be CPU limited, sure, but it's far better to get 30fps and be CPU limited than get 15fps and be GPU limited...

 

[Lunyone]

Originally posted by: harpoon84
To be blunt, the 6800GT will be more of a bottleneck than the 2.3GHz XP in any semi recent games, especially Oblivion which is VERY shader heavy and would bring a GF6 class card to it's knees even at medium detail. Even with a CPU upgrade, you'll only be looking at low/medium details at most - if you're happy with that then fair game, but a far better upgrade for 3D games would be to keep your current CPU but get an X1950 AGP card. You might be CPU limited, sure, but it's far better to get 30fps and be CPU limited than get 15fps and be GPU limited...

That is what I would recommend too, but just remember that you need to have a quality PSU to handle it. At the minimum I'd recommend the 380w Antec Earthwatts PSU or a FSP 400w. The Antec has 30a on the 12v rail and the FSP has 29a's. So either will work fine.
Here's the links for the cheapest price for either, if you need to go that route.
$54 shipped
FSP Group FSP400-60THN ATX2.0 400W Power Supply 115/230 V UL, CSA, VDE, NEMKO, TUV, CE, CB, FCC - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817104032
or
8800gtx on 380w Antec PSU! Not recommended to run it this hard for a long period of time, but the review is here to show you that you don't have to spend $150 on a PSU to run a 8800gtx.
http://www.overclockers.com/articles1452/

PSU - $49 shipped - $39 w/Goggle checkout Can power 8800gtx and an OC?d e6600! See link above for proof!
Antec Earthwatt 380W P/Satx 12V v.2.2 80MM P/S2 Fan 80-Plus Certified - EA380
http://www.buy.com/prod/antec-...loc/101/203477214.html

 

[teclis1023]

Well, from the standpoint of someone who just bought a 939 motherboard for some spare parts, I can tell you that it will be very difficult to find what you're looking for AMD abandoned 939 for AM2, but the performance never really was up to snuff with AM2.

I can only suggest that you bite the bullet and buy an LGA775 system while memory is CHEAP.

 

[jjmIII]

I can only suggest that you bite the bullet and buy an LGA775 system while memory is CHEAP.

This seems to be a pretty common question. I'm not a gamer, but as a builder, I would say AGP is dead........move on as suggested above.

 

[Denithor]

Abit IP35-E + e2180 + 2GB DDR2 for $218 + shipping at Mwave
Thermaltake 500W power supply for $35 after MIR at Newegg
Add a stock 8800gt for around $250 (or $200ish if you wait a few weeks)
Recycle your other parts (HDD, DVDRW, case, etc).

Total cost for complete refresh: $505
Minus whatever you can get selling off your old parts (eBay, forums).

Could also consider adding $40 to upgrade to the e4500 for higher stock performance.

 

[Mogadon]

If you're really desperate to hang on to the old video card you can get this board from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/MSI-K8N-Ne...ameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

there's a few listed on there and these are good boards, probably one of the best 939 boards with AGP.


I would, however, recommend that you take everyone else's advice above, Denithor has some great equipment listed.

 

[vailr]

ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813157115
(1)AGP slot, (2)DDR slots, Intel quad-core capable, VIA chipset.
Or, if you care to import from outside the U.S., there also exist Intel 865 chipset boards
from Gigabyte or ASrock that are also Intel quad-core capable. Those 865 chipset boards
have (1)AGP and (4)DDR slots.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: vailr
ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813157115
(1)AGP slot, (2)DDR slots, Intel quad-core capable, VIA chipset.
Or, if you care to import from outside the U.S., there also exist Intel 865 chipset boards
from Gigabyte or ASrock that are also Intel quad-core capable. Those 865 chipset boards
have (1)AGP and (4)DDR slots.

True.

If you don't want to look further than NewEgg, they also carry the Gigabyte 8I865GME-775-RH rev 2.0, which is a micro-ATX i865G mobo with an AGP slot, and supports the C2D. Not sure if it supports the quad though.

Edit: Darn, seems like they don't carry that one anymore. It used to go for $50, looks like they sold out and aren't carrying it anymore.
Edit2: I picked mine up at a CompUSA B&M, but it looks like they don't carry this model any longer either.

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Doesn't support the quad. I installed one running on a Celeron 440, it runs great for a desktop machine. Had to replace the northbridge heatsink with an Evercool VC-RE copper heatsink though, otherwise I got BSODs during XP's install.