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[onlyCOpunk]

Was wondering if there was ever a board that had this combination of features:

Socket 939 or 754
AGP slot
DDR PC-3200
ATA-100
and was able to use Dual Core CPUs.

 

[postmortemIA]

of course, ever heard of bug with nforce3, dual core, ati graphics and vista?

 

[onlyCOpunk]

huh?

 

[Keitero]

Any nForce3 based 939 board will do all that you asked.

 

[Heidfirst]

or VIA K8T800 Pro, ULi 1689

 

[onlyCOpunk]

Basically, let me get down to the point. Are there any "newer" motherboards that allow for dual core cpu's, agp cards and pc3200 ram? I only ask about newer because it is somewhat impossible to find old hardware and when you do, it's absurdly overpriced.

I'm basically looking to upgrade my cpu/motherboard with minimal other costs such as buying new ram and a new video card.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: onlyCOpunk
Basically, let me get down to the point. Are there any "newer" motherboards that allow for dual core cpu's, agp cards and pc3200 ram? I only ask about newer because it is somewhat impossible to find old hardware and when you do, it's absurdly overpriced.

I'm basically looking to upgrade my cpu/motherboard with minimal other costs such as buying new ram and a new video card.

No. AGP is dead, S939 is dead, DDR1 is more or less dead. You're going to have to pay the premium for older hardware since what you want is no longer in production. And for the love of Mike stay away from the nForce 3.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

If AGP is dead, then why am I seeing some AM2 boards with AGP slots? Is that right?

 

[SerpentRoyal]

AGP IS DEAD!!! If you want to run the latest games, then you need to migrate to DDR2 and PCI-E.

 

[bka4u2c]

I wouldn't say AGP is dead, but it's certainly dying. There are boards out there that have what you want but as you stated most are overpriced. So its kind of a toss up depending on how quick you need this new system and how much you have to spend. You could probably get a motherboard that supports DDR2 with an AM2 or Intel Dual Core and a PCI-E resonably priced. DDR2 memory is so cheap now days its hard not to buy additional memory.

You probably concerned about having to buy a new graphics card when the one you have does what you want already. But that may be a choice you have to make. Since AGP products seem to be priced more than they are worth you may be able to recoup some of the loss of buying a new PCI-E graphics card by selling your current AGP graphics card.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

Unfortunately I just invested in an x1950gt, it's not that much of a concern to me at the moment, I just get obsessed with finding solutions, not that any will most likely ever materialise. This system only has to last me 3 more months, and I think it can survive that.