Mobo with AGP and PCI-e?

Dan G · 13 Apr 2006 at 23:44

Hi! Considering an upgrade to a AMD Opteron UP 144 San Diego 1.8GHz 1MB Cache (Socket 939), for which I will need a new mobo. No cash for a new PCIe card, nor new RAM.

Is there any Mobo's, preferably under £100 that would let me use my AGP 6800LE and GeIL Value 1Gb, and a possibility to upgrade to PCIe later? It must have great OCing potential of course!

Damn my tight budget! Thanks guys.

Cyber-Mav · 13 Apr 2006 at 23:45

asrock board like the one i got. cost me £43 inc vat and delivery.

Dan G · 13 Apr 2006 at 23:48

How would my OC be on one of those with the Opty 144 then? Looking on Anadtechs reviews they where pimping Abit for OCing, more expensive though I suppose?

BruceLee · 13 Apr 2006 at 23:56

Asrocks OK, poor vcore options but if you want you can mod it.

I ve had a few problems with it but most boards are like that.

ocworkbench have a good thread on it.

ajgoodfellow · 14 Apr 2006 at 00:41

Your only real option is the ASRock board as this features the ULI M1575 chipset offering native PCI-E and AGP

Most AGP and PCI-E combo boards have the AGP bus derived off the PCI bus crippling the performance of AGP cards

The A-Bit is a better clocker, namely due to the higher HTT speeds and VCore, but you'll have to move to PCI-E or be stuck with AGP

Cyber-Mav · 14 Apr 2006 at 09:25

asrock board can handle 400HTT if you know what your doing.

even for me im doing a mild 290HTT which is easily attainable once you flash to the beta bios. also asrock m1695 chipset offers native agp slot which has no performance loss.

best to read the review http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2524
and then make your decision. for the price there really is no competition to this board.

vanandjuanunited · 14 Apr 2006 at 09:27

Another vote for the asrock.
Even on standard bios you should be looking at 2.45Ghz.
With money saved on board get a 146 with a 10 multi and hopefully you will get 2.7 from it.

Dan G · 14 Apr 2006 at 10:23

Well to be honest I don't really want to go much over £150 so that kinda limits me to a 144.

However if I was to sell my DFI UT NF3, 3000+ and 6800LE, which clock quite nicely and the LE unlocks 16*6, how much do you reckon I would get?

Possibly I could afford a XFX GeForce 6800 XT Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 to go on PCIe then, and a Abit KN8 nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard at a pinch?

What think ye? Could a sale like that fund that kit? Ta

ajgoodfellow · 15 Apr 2006 at 00:20

Dan G said:
Well to be honest I don't really want to go much over £150 so that kinda limits me to a 144.

However if I was to sell my DFI UT NF3, 3000+ and 6800LE, which clock quite nicely and the LE unlocks 16*6, how much do you reckon I would get?

Possibly I could afford a XFX GeForce 6800 XT Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 to go on PCIe then, and a Abit KN8 nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard at a pinch?

What think ye? Could a sale like that fund that kit? Ta

Hi

I'd expect about £40 for the motherboard, £70 for the graphics card and £50 for the CPU if it's Socket 754, £60 if it's Socket 939

If you want both the motherboard and CPU for £150 then even the 144 will bring it a little over budget (the 144 is £120). If it's just the CPU then the 146 is just over (£152 inc VAT)

The 6800XT is basically a 6800LE so it'll be about the same. For £100 inc you'd be better to get a 7600GS or a 7600GT if you can stretch to it