Socket 478

There is an ATI one too. Manufacturers include Asus, Albatron and Asrock (I think)... Saw a 4x DDR slot 915 chipset Asus board go on a large auction site the other week for £89.

At that point, you start getting near the point where you justify one of the AGP bridged 7900GTs from leadtech, or a whole new rig - a second hand socket 939 rig could be built pretty cheaply with lots of people jumping ship to conroe.

The PCIe + 478 boards are really rare and highly contested at the moment, sadly. My 2.4 @ 3GHz northwood will meet its maker soon (or at least be sold on ;))
 
The Asus p4gd1 is the one you want...combined with a Dothan m780 (using the 479 converter), for games, it's in the same league as a 4800+/965ee, and that's without any overclocking!
 
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Its my mates computer. He has a socket 478 2.8 @ 3.5, Sapphire 9800XT and 1 gig of OZ PC 4200.

His gpu has given up and so needs a new card. I was thinking of the gainwood gs+. Its just that it seems so much money £250 when you could get the HIS X1900XT for £230, if he had pci extreame.

The computer still does everything he wants it to. Im worried also that if he buys the new gpu something else might go wrong as the computer is three years old?

Is he going to be able to run fear ect at high res and effects?
 
There is the Asus P4GPL-X which only has 2 DIMMs and no RAID, or the P4GD1 which has everything you'll ever need.

EDIT: Hmm, looks like my PC's decided to show cache pages.
 
I can not seem to fing the Asus P4GD1 for sale anywhere and if it is going to be around a £100 it just seems like a waste of money.

He might have to bight the bullet and go Conroe.

It is so difficult to advise him of what to do. He could get the conroe which would be a massive jump from his old system, but it will set him back about £1,200.

Or he could get the Gainwood GS+ which is a rubbish card for its price of £250, plus something else could go wrong with other parts of the system. How different is the GS+ to say the HIS X1900XT say on average FPS?

Any suggestions welcome?
 
The Gainward 7800+ is a good card, performance wise in the same ranks as a 7900gt or 7800gtx (technically it is a 7900gt, they just couldn't brand it as such due to liscensing issues).

However, a x1900xt would displace it.
 
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