Decent Socket 478 motherboard with AGP 8x

[Rendog]

Hello all,

Having recently decided wanting to do a little upgrade to my PC, I have been trying to find a decent socket 478 motherboard with AGP 8x and SATA, as my graphics card is an 8x, but my current motherboard is only 4x.

Everywhere I look, most socket 478's are either discontinued (yes i know it's old school now) or out of stock. I keep on seeing some ASRock motherboards, but I have no idea if they are any good? I heard that certain chipsets are rubbish with certain boards.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Andy

 

[Tetras]

The Asrock boards are generally fine and one of the few still available, but, if your planning to do this to make full use of your graphics card then I wouldn't bother, the improvement will most likely be very small, if anything.

Keep in mind there are 939 boards like the Asrock dualsata thingy at £40 with both PCI-E and AGP which you could then pair with a 64 3700+ for not a lot of moolah and keep your AGP card until you feel a need to upgrade further.

There are also (rare but they do exist) PCI-E boards for 478 which paired with something like a 7600 GT could potentially be a very nice boost too