ATI 3850 - chipset problems?

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Hello there,

I'd like to give my older socket 939 AGP system a boost by upgrading to a 3850.

My motherboard uses the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset and I'm sure that I read somewhere previously that ATI cards had problems running on boards with VIA chipsets.

I'd be grateful if anyone could give some advice before I part with my hard earned pennies.

Thanks

 

[Devil_Spawn]

There has been quite a long running issue with AGP cards with ati, supposedly on VIA chipsets.

In the main release drivers, there is a good chance that it may not work properly, however, ati have recently been releasing hotfix drivers to solve the problem

omega drivers also work great.

 

[dagwoood]

My motherboard uses the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset and I'm sure that I read somewhere previously that ATI cards had problems running on boards with VIA chipsets.

The problem you're thinking of concerns PCI-E 2.0 backwards compatibility.

Most motherboards with older VIA chipsets aren't compatible with the latest cards as they can't run PCI-E 2.0 cards out of the box. As the card you're interested in is an AGP card, the PCI-E compatibility issue shouldn't apply in your case I'd have thought.

Have you checked your motherboards site and checked if the AGP 3850 is in a list of tested GPU's for your board? If not, it might be worth checking.