Is a PCI motherboard 64 bit only?

KHAN · 30 Aug 2006 at 19:30

I was looking for a replacement motherboard, it needs to be PCI so I can put a geforce 7800 in there but I can only find ones that say 64bit.

The processor I have is a Athlon XP 2800

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Tetras · 30 Aug 2006 at 19:33

I think your a little confused? (or I am reading your post

) PCI or PCI-Express? There are no PCI 7800s, only PCI-Express or AGP ones.

An Athlon XP 2800 can only be on socket A, I'm not sure if there are any PCI-Express socket A boards.... don't think so...

Cob · 30 Aug 2006 at 19:38

Nah you'll need to upgrade both your cpu and motherboard to atleast Socket 939 to get a PCI-E graphics card.

Tetras · 30 Aug 2006 at 19:41

Actually 754 and 478 have PCI-Express mobos, both older than 939 but neither any use with an Athlon XP anyway

Cob · 30 Aug 2006 at 19:49

Tetras said:
Actually 754 and 478 have PCI-Express mobos, both older than 939 but neither any use with an Athlon XP anyway

It's debatable whether either of those would be an upgrade from a Barton

pastymuncher · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:43

There's nothing wrong with 754 mate. I had a XP2800 and went to a 754 3400+ and it was a big leap in performance. Check my siggy to see what i have now. It would certainly give many 939 rigs a damn good run for their money and now i've gone watercooling i can get even more out of my rig.