AGP Motherboard

PaulStat · 18 May 2007 at 11:37

I currently have an ageing Athlon 2500XP+ with Abit NF7 v2

So i'm wanting to get into this 64 bit (dual core aswell preferably) malarky, thing is i'm not wanting to upgrade my RAM, IDE HD's, or AGP Graphics card.

So what motherboard options do I have which also have the possibility of upgrading to PCI-Express.

Oh and i'm probably wanting to go the AM2 route.

hp7909 · 18 May 2007 at 11:48

You could go Intel C2D instead which is faster, etc with the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA (here)

WJA96 · 18 May 2007 at 11:57

You can pick up an ASRock Conroe-775i65 Motherboard and a cheap Core2Duo for under £90 at the moment. Less than that on MM. That motherboard will tolerate a 50% overclock if you have decent RAM.

PaulStat · 18 May 2007 at 12:43

WJA96 said:
You can pick up an ASRock Conroe-775i65 Motherboard and a cheap Core2Duo for under £90 at the moment. Less than that on MM. That motherboard will tolerate a 50% overclock if you have decent RAM.

Provide a linky to them on OcUK?

waso_dude · 18 May 2007 at 12:55

IIRC OCUK don't stock that board for some crazy reasoon

WJA96 · 18 May 2007 at 13:05

waso_dude said:
IIRC OCUK don't stock that board for some crazy reasoon

Not enough profit in them. 10% of £25 is £2.50 profit, 10% of £50 is £5 profit - which one would you sell?

hp7909 · 18 May 2007 at 13:37

There's ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA (here)

EDIT: Could be a typo on OcUK site, because specs same as 775Dual-VSTA :confused:

WJA96 · 18 May 2007 at 13:48

Yes, it is at OcUK, but it's twice the price and it's a much weaker chipset - the 865 was the predecessor of the 965 - it was the perfomance Intel chipset in 2005/early 2006.

The VIA880 is a clever chipset, but it has so many compromises that it is quite slow compared with the 865 chipset.

In this case the cheaper board is also the better board, unfortunately OcUK don't sell it, so....

PaulStat · 18 May 2007 at 14:30

So that ASRock MB is compatible with this then?

link

How come peeps are going Intel these days then? Just curious

ron3003 · 18 May 2007 at 15:37

This guy had the same spec as you PaulStat,
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17728180
I have an e6600 in my Asrock dual/vsta ( I have the 4core/vsta here as well, they are exactly the same board ).
I was rock solid at 300fsb with my agp 6600gt and ddr pc3200 ram.
I now have a pci-e 7600gt and 2gig ddr2 pc5300 which is solid at 290fsb.
With the agp and ddr at 300 fsb my superpi_mod time was 19.16secs.
Now at 290fsb it's 19.65secs.
Not too shabby for a 'slow' via chipset

hp7909 · 18 May 2007 at 18:21

PaulStat said:
{snip}How come peeps are going Intel these days then? Just curious

Intel have (seriously) overhauled AMD in terms of performance. C2D is the new 'holy grail'

& prices are not that bad either