PCI EXPRESS?????????

the asrock board PCIe slot is 16x physical but only 4x electrical so will be a big bottleneck on most high-end cards, if going for a cheap board, avoid the asrock
 
Great board for the money !!!

I had a Asrock Dual Vsta which had a PCIE x 4 board and it was excellent! i then needed to upgrade as i had 4gb of ddr2 to put in, so got another asrock but this time it had PCIE x 16 - i saw a little increase in my 3d mark score (about 200 points) so there isn't that much difference between x4 & x16 from my experience.

Not an amazing overclocker tho got my CPU from 2.6 to 3.0ghz no problem, very stable, cant go over that tho!

I would defiantly get another asrock board in the future

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The ASRock is a great stepping stone board and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

I wouldn't use it as a long term board, but for versitility and alowing you to upgrade over time it can't be beaten.

I got one of the Mrs who went from an old 775 P4 AGP DDR1 system, we changed the board to the ASRock, then changed the graphics to a PCI-E card, then moved to DDR2, and now she's getting a Core2 (which was unsupported on her old board).

Once we have the Core2 we'll look to move to a new mobo later down the line, but for the sake of £40, of which we'll recoup a good £25 when we sell it on its a great bit of kit.

Yes the PCI-E is only 4x, but unless you are using a top end card you won't notice, also be warned 8800's don't work in this board.

The wife is using a X800XL though so the performance difference of being on 4x compaired to 16x is non-existant.
 
would i notice a difference if i got this board and lets say the x1950? would the port bottleneck the card? i am currently using a p4 3.2ghz (lga 775) 1.5gb ram and the x800gto agp, the motherboard i am currently using is S*^T (ecs 661fx) i am allowing myself £200 to upgrade the pc, would the Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard be a better idea ?http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-065-GI i can get it for £80 with free fitting from pc world
 
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i used a dual core VSTA board, and was utterly dissapointed in it. Unstable at the best of times.

In fact i had 2 boards, both of which gave me problems using a pentium D and a core 2 duo... I decided to bite the bullet and go for a total new rig with the Abit Ab9 Pro, new ram, sata HDD and Graphics etc.. and i havnt looked back.
 
winngames said:
would i notice a difference if i got this board and lets say the x1950? would the port bottleneck the card? i am currently using a p4 3.2ghz (lga 775) 1.5gb ram and the x800gto agp, the motherboard i am currently using is S*^T (ecs 661fx) i am allowing myself £200 to upgrade the pc, would the Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard be a better idea ?http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-065-GI i can get it for £80 with free fitting from pc world
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No it wouldn't bottleneck the card --- don't go to pcw there skanky

Its up to you if you wonna get the Gigabyte great mobos apparently - if you get the asrock you will left with more money to spend on other things - imo
 
Looking at this board then, used it last year for a mate's machine cos he didnt have much to spend, if the PCi-Express is only electrically 4x, would this hold back his 1950XTX?

Just wondering, as if it was would it be worth buying a different Sckt939 board for the time being until he takes the plunge with a new upgrade?

Soz bought the hijack
 
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