Vista & amd dual core / ati gpu

[tdawg]

Hey All,

Sorry if this has been asked already, but I'm looking to upgrade my computer as my Opteron 165 wasn't playing nice with my x850 agp graphics card. I would have to limit the processor to one core if I wanted my graphics card to work at all. I'm confident that it's my motherboard (K8N Neo2 Platinum-Nforce 3).

So, I'm looking at a new AM2 setup (core2 not what I want to spend at the moment). My question is if anybody has recieved the "code 43" error on your PCIe graphics card with an AM2 X2 processor and Vista installed. Specifically, I'm looking at an AM2 X2 4200+, Sapphire 1950gt, and Gigabyte nforce 590 motherboard.

Any experiences people could share would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Trevor

 

[tdawg]

So, everybody's happy with this or a similar AMD socket AM2 setup? That's good news.

 

[Mem]

Vista has native support for dual core CPUs,unlike WinXP no AMD optimizer or AMD dual core driver are needed for Vista.

I can confirm no problems with AMD x2 dual core CPU or gaming with my Vista x64 HP.

 

[loup garou]

Don't know about your particular setup, but we have lots of Dell machines with socket AM2, ATI GPUs and Vista humming along nicely.

 

[masteraleph]

It's a problem specific to nForce3 AGP chipsets with ATI cards and dual core processors. To my understanding, there's no issue with any of the PCI-E chipsets.

 

[tdawg]

Originally posted by: masteraleph
It's a problem specific to nForce3 AGP chipsets with ATI cards and dual core processors. To my understanding, there's no issue with any of the PCI-E chipsets.

Seriously? That's conveniently specific.

Since there's probably so few of us left that match this exact configuration, it's probably not too frequently experienced.

Thanks,
Trevor

 

[aka1nas]

There were only ~6 socket 939 nforce 3 motherboard models produced IIRC. The chipset has been poorly supported on socket 939 for most of it's life as it was quickly superceded by the Nforce 4 soon after the 939 boards were finally released. It took a while to get official BIOS dual-core support for my Neo 2 at the time also. A good chunk of the functionality never worked right, either(ActiveArmor, TCP/IP Offload, SATA II).