Does such a motherboard exist?

dagwoood

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I'm thinking about replacing my current motherboard but, as I don't want to spend much more money, is there a budget socket 939 board with an AGP socket that will overclock well?

Getting a bit fed up with my current Asrock DS's reluctance to set a HTT value above 274 and all of the other problems associated with it.

Cheers, dagwoood.
 
trojan698 said:
Do you mean is there another board that supports both AGP & PCI-E?
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Sorry, I haven't made myself clear :o

I'm looking for an AGP only board, that's cheap, but still has the functionality to overclock the CPU/RAM.

williamw11 said:
Have you tried the beta bios' on the asrock?
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I have tried them williamw11. The only two beta's(v1 and v2)that will let you set an HTT value over 274 wont "remember" their settings if I reboot. I spent 36+ hours testing with the beta2 BIOS, running at 2.65GHz and performing stress/memory/stability tests, only for the BIOS settings to return to the default values when I turned my system off :mad:
 
mayby asrock will release an update to the bios that allows for a higher than 274htt speed.

thats why i got a opteron 146 cuz it gives me the 10x multi to compensate for a lower clocking board.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
mayby asrock will release an update to the bios that allows for a higher than 274htt speed.

thats why i got a opteron 146 cuz it gives me the 10x multi to compensate for a lower clocking board.
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There's a thread over on OCW where someone emailed Asrock and asked if the HTT limit would be removed in a future BIOS release and Asrock said no, try an OCW beta BIOS. I don't know if this can be taken as true, but I can't see Asrock removing the limit as it could impact on the sales of more expensive offerings from themselves and Asus.

Also, getting an Opteron 146 wasn't an option when I purchased my CPU as there weren't any available anywhere :(

It's not just the HTT limit that's getting to me though. The boards seems to be optimized for PCI-E cards so your AGP performance is lacking, you can't put much voltage through the CPU/RAM without doing some sort of mod, it has cold boot/restart issues and I can't run my RAM at 1T.
 
I am currently using the Epox 9NDA3+.

Beauty of a board, very pleased with it, I can take the overclocking to 290FSB odd without much of a problem.

Installed the newest bios yesterday (which caused me to reinstall my system because the hal file wasn't compatible anymore >.<) and that appears to have given me some more features to mess about in within the bios, mainly RAM stuff I think.

So I dont think you would be disapointed in the Epox board. Overclocks well, works well and is good value for money imho.
 
problem is that the modded bioses for the asrock board are based on old version official bioses. need someone the basically get the latest 1.6 asrock bios and just mod it to remove the htt limiter.
 
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