mobo for Athlon 64 3000+

[zylander]

I am going to be upgrading to an Athlon 64 3000+ cpu and am going to need a new motherboard to go with it. I was going to go with the DFI lanparty UP nF4 ultra-d until I realized that it did not have an AGP slot, so now I am looking at the DFI NF3 ultra-d because it has agp, but it doesnt have nforce 4. I skimmed through some of the threads and it looks like a lot of people are going with the DFI nf4 ultra-d of SLI boards. I started looking at some other boards and it looks like all nF4 boards dont have AGP support, is this true? Is AGP going out?

Basically I need a mobo that can support my card and that cna easily overclock it. I would prefere it to have an AGP slot because I dont want to get a new vid card now, but if agp is going out and the new boards dont support it, I might as well upgrade now, so if I have to I will switch over to another card.

 

[imported_Kensai]

DFI NF3 Ultra-D. AGP is going out because newer chipsets do not support it.

 

[zylander]

well I decided to go with the DFI nF4 Ultra-D. if AGP is going out I might as well upgrade now. also getting a chaintech SE660g geforce 6600gt.

 

[zylander]

how do the ram slots on the nf 4 ultra-d work? i was reading through another thread and someone said "make sure to use the correct rem slots". I currently have one stick of DDR 400 512mb, and stick of DDR 400 256mb. I would like to add maybe 256mb more, but I dont knwo if it will cause problems. Do I need equal sticks of ram if I want to use more than 2 banks?

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Heh. Check this board out:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1637097&enterthread=y

# Native AGP 8x
# PCI-Express x1 and x16 slots
# PCI-E based SATA2 controller
# 'ASrock Future CPU Port for upgrading to M2 in the future'

So basically you can put in your AGP card, upgrade to PCIe later AND upgrade to Socket M2 later!

-TPG