Does this type of mobo exist?

Cookeh

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Hi guys,

Just wondering if there is something as a 775 socket DDR AGP 8x mobo that supports dual cores? :o

Sorry if its a daft question :eek:

Alistair
 
mmj_uk said:
Why not buy a PCI-E motherboard along with a *modern* graphics card? :p
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Because I cant afford one atm.
And my graphics card is the best AGP you can buy!

Also, im currently on a P4 socket 478, so looking for a cheap tempory upgrade, I thought this might do the trick!
 
Cookeh said:
Because I cant afford one atm.
And my graphics card is the best AGP you can buy!

Also, im currently on a P4 socket 478, so looking for a cheap tempory upgrade, I thought this might do the trick!
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How much do you have to spend? and what's your AGP GFX card?
 
pastymuncher said:
That's not much. Is that as far as the board will get it? I had one that did 3.6Ghz in a £35 Gigabyte P31-DS3L.
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No I think It might be 2.3 Ghz. Either way yes, a better board will go further. I didn't buy it for overclocking though. I bought it a 2-3 years ago to upgrade my old athlon system. It took my old ram, my old gfx and my ide drives. I got the mobo and processor brand new for £70 (30 + 40 ).

Since then I've stuck a pcie and DDR2 ram. and sata drives.
 
pastymuncher said:
Asrock did a Frankenstein type of board that would suit your need's. See here.
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I got one of those from eBay for £17 to build my brothers computer with, and it's RUBBISH. Nothing I did could get it to boot with 2 sticks of RAM.

I've been building computers for about 8 years now, and I've never seen such a rubbish component. When he gets round to upgrading it, I'll probably end up folding it in half.
 
Muel said:
I got one of those from eBay for £17 to build my brothers computer with, and it's RUBBISH. Nothing I did could get it to boot with 2 sticks of RAM.

I've been building computers for about 8 years now, and I've never seen such a rubbish component. When he gets round to upgrading it, I'll probably end up folding it in half.
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works fine for me. DDR or DDR2 . You can't mix ram types though.
 
asrock do **** motherboards. when i got my first core2 i had to get a cheap board so i got an asrock conroe 945g, it was pathetic. couldn't overclock it, couldn't boot with all the ram slots filled. dropped it like hot **** as soon as possible.


i'd suggest the post writer just save and save for something decent, even a board with onboard graphics to tide you over until you can get a decent video board, but please don't buy an asrock, it's a human rights violation in a box.
 
Well that's the whole point of asrock boards. They are the 'value' brand of ASUS, and as such won't have all the features and some corners will have been cut. As I said above if you fill all the ram slots it won't work... The manual specifically states that doing so may damange the modules and/or the board.

The board above is a board with a special purpose which it fullfils adequetly - a transitional board. It's like the old days of the super socket 7 boards etc.
 
I bought the Asrock 4Coredual Sata II mobo and updated the Bios with the Trieber 2.13 I think it was.

I had some negative comments when I asked the exact same questiosn.

I had an old PC, didn't want to fork out a fortune, it was an old Gigabyte with an AMD Sempron 3300, 2gb of Corsair XMS Pro PC3500LL, and the HIS IceQ 3850 AGP. The Asrock would need a new CPU, but I could use my graphics, my ram , my IDE kit, PSU etc and due to it being DDR or DDRII and AGP or PCI-Ex4 it was a no brainer.

The Asrock board needed a bios update to utilise the E7400, but I ended up pairing it with an E5200. I have to say it worked very well, it was not a great overclocker, but fun to play with, I ended up adding 4gb of PC-6400, then a Sapphire Toxic 4870 1gb PCI-E card, and Windows 7 with a 640gb F1.

Most of this kit then got transfered to a new Gigabyte P-45 board, and as I upgraded the old unused kit ended up back on the Asrock, which ended up in an LC13 case as an HTPC.

For me it provided a nice easy carefull upgrade path that was not hard on the pocket, it is still sitting here, though unused.
 
whitecrook said:
Well that's the whole point of asrock boards. They are the 'value' brand of ASUS, and as such won't have all the features and some corners will have been cut. As I said above if you fill all the ram slots it won't work... The manual specifically states that doing so may damange the modules and/or the board.

The board above is a board with a special purpose which it fullfils adequetly - a transitional board. It's like the old days of the super socket 7 boards etc.
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What on earth is the point of having all of the RAM slots if you can't use them? That makes no sense surely?
 
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