There aren't any s754 motherboards that support both pci-e AND AGP are there?

[PingSpike]

I'm pretty sure there's a few that use some undesirable method to make the AGP slot work...are there any that are uncompromising like the asrock?

 

[coolpurplefan]

I don`t believe so, but if you have a very powerful graphics card, maybe you can improve performance by simply switching to a more powerful CPU or get 2x1GB RAM. I believe they are coming out with a series 7 Geforce card for AGP.

 

[Order 66]

The MSI K8N NEO3-F supports AGP 4x and PCI Express x16. It costs between $60 to $80 and only supports certain cards according to MSI.

 

[coolpurplefan]

wow, me surprised. while supplies lasts on that site though.

edit: MSI is a good brand

 

[Peter]

That MSI board doesn't do _real_ AGP - it's 3.3V PCI, compatible only to AGP cards old enough to still support "0x AGP" mode w/ 3.3V signalling. This is why the list of compatible cards is so short and contains not one halfway current card.

The only (!) AMD64 chipset to support true AGP and PCIE is ULi's. Short of using the big gun server grade Opteron chipsets where bus bridges are freely combined, there's no other way of doing that.

 

[PingSpike]

Thats what I thought. I'd heard of a few different ways of doing AGP on PCI-E boards but until uli's asrock board they all used an undesirable method to "sort of" get AGP on the board.

Its to bad they don't make one of those asrock cpu upgrade cards with socket 754 on it that I could stick in the port of the asrock 939dual. But I suppose they would consider that a "downgrade" card, not an upgrade card.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Thats what I thought. I'd heard of a few different ways of doing AGP on PCI-E boards but until uli's asrock board they all used an undesirable method to "sort of" get AGP on the board.

Its to bad they don't make one of those asrock cpu upgrade cards with socket 754 on it that I could stick in the port of the asrock 939dual. But I suppose they would consider that a "downgrade" card, not an upgrade card.

I'm pretty sure that they made a 754 riser card for one of their older Socket A motherboards, but I think the connector is different...so you're pretty much out of luck.