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Bolerus

Bolerus

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Hi.

There is a motherboard that has a built in agp 7200 (i think) and has a pci-e card, but still uses ddr 1 memory

does anybody knwo what it is, somebody mentioned it to me in conversation, and now I have forgotten what it is.

I did have look through some of the boards on the OC main site, but not knowing the manuafacturer etc, its a needle search.

SO if any body knows off hand :)
 
I meant exactly what I wrote. Asrock does several boards that have both AGP 8x and PCI-e 16x slots. They also have several that will take both DDR and DDR2. As I recall their popular skt 939 board is also upgradable to AM2 and DDR2 with a riser board.

Again, what CPU socket do you need?
 
no, it had a built in (integrated) on board, nvidia 7200 (may have been a 7300)

and also a pci-express slot

the memmory was DDR not DDR 2

so sounds like it may have been the asrock

The reason for the question, is dependant on what the baord was,(if anybody knows) would be a good way into pci-express without going to the expense of replacing all the memmory.

I doubt my cpu woudl go on any modern mother baord now anyway it is a intel 2800, but not even hyper thread lol

So it doesent really matter what chipset etc.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
I meant exactly what I wrote. Asrock does several boards that have both AGP 8x and PCI-e 16x slots. They also have several that will take both DDR and DDR2. As I recall their popular skt 939 board is also upgradable to AM2 and DDR2 with a riser board.

Again, what CPU socket do you need?
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No not you, I meant Bolerus!
 
Bolerus said:
no, it had a built in (integrated) on board, nvidia 7200 (may have been a 7300)

and also a pci-express slot

the memmory was DDR not DDR 2

so sounds like it may have been the asrock

The reason for the question, is dependant on what the baord was,(if anybody knows) would be a good way into pci-express without going to the expense of replacing all the memmory.

I doubt my cpu woudl go on any modern mother baord now anyway it is a intel 2800, but not even hyper thread lol

So it doesent really matter what chipset etc.
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Ah makes sense now, you mentioned AGP in your first post - that got me confused! But if you type board wrong one more time - I will set the forum police on you!
Are you planning to use this as a gaming machine? How much memory is there? Anything less than a 1Gb and you're wasting your time to start with. Plus that CPU would mean a large bottleneck.

If you've got some spare components knocking around, then this would be good for putting together a cheap 2nd PC. Using this board for gaming would only be hiding the real problem - you need to upgrade your system!
 
The reason for the question, is dependant on what the baord was,(if anybody knows) would be a good way into pci-express without going to the expense of replacing all the memmory.
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Is the Intel 2800 LGA775 or 478 as it could be either socket? If your unsure use CPU-Z from http://www.cpuid.com

Very popular hybrid board here (no onboard VGA but LGA775, DDR & DDR2, AGP and PCI-E 4X which accepts 16X cards):
http://www.asrock.com/product/775Dual-VSTA.htm

You really need to tell us which socket your looking for though as there are many boards with onboard VGA and a PCI-E 16X slot. The onboard 7200/7300 you mention would be an nVidia chipset which makes me think your talking about an Athlon 64/X2 AM2 or 939 board.
 
I dont really mind if i stay intel or go back to amd.

I do like the idea of a mother baord yes that is baord :) that has both pci and agp slots (i coudl use my current card untill I have the spare cash to get a pci one)

I have had my gigabyte motherboard and the intel 2.8 for a couple of years and it currently has a leadtek 6800ls in it. with a gig of ddr 400 memmory.



the reason for this whole thread, I would like to upgrade, but I do not want to have to effectively start again with a new board, new cpu, new grachics card and new memmory.

A friend mentioned a board with integrated graphics, and a pci express slot
(meaning i could upgrade to that and not worry about a graphics card for a little while) which would take ddr memory (meaning that I wouldnt have to shell out for ddr2)

I apreciate my cpu is now too old, and wouldnt likely go in any new motherboards

On a side point, just because a computer doesent have the latest cpu, g.card and memmory does not mean that it will no longer play games,

my sons pc is a 2gig amd with a fx5200 and 512 memory, and that still plays new games (the latest one we have is Need for Speed : Carbon)

and if you mean that my current cpu would give a huge bottle neck, well I wouldn't know about that (although I am thinking of changing up because it is getting old) but I am yet to find any game that It is struggling with, includint NFS:carbon on the standard out of the box settings (not tried to turn it up or down to see any differnces)


the MB is a gigabyte
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ok just ran cpuid

my cpu is:-

Intel Northwood
socket 478 mPGA

core speed: 2807.1 mhz
multiplyer x21.0
bus speed 133.7 mhz
rated fsb 534.7 mhz

Cache
L1 Data 8 kbytes
L1 trace kuops

L2 512 Kbytes
 
I think my cheapest, and probably best all round option would be to go for

ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

and a core 2 intel cpu.

that way I can use my memmory and graphics card for now

would you agrea?
 
There are actually a few PCI Express based 478 boards:
P4RD1-MX (ATI X3000 onboard, also PCI-E 16X slot)
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=12&l3=230&model=771&modelmenu=2

P4GPL-X (PCI-E 16X)
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=12&l3=158&model=425&modelmenu=1

P4GD1 (PCI-E 16X)
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=12&l3=27&model=167&modelmenu=1

But they are all very rare and kinda expensive for what they are now.

More suitable is a LGA775 board for Core 2 Duo (obviously you'd need a new CPU). Few other examples:

Abit IP-95 (onboard VGA, 2x DDR 400 OR 2x DDR2 533, PCI-E 16X)
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=329

Asrock 775Twins-HDTV R2.0 (onboard ATI X300 VGA, 2x DDR 400 OR 2x 667, PCI-E 16X)
http://www.asrock.com/product/775Twins-HDTV R2.0.htm

The 775Dual-VSTA is a pretty good board and seems ideal for what your looking for.
 
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