My main system board is really giving me some problems, so it's gonna get changed. I'd like to reuse as much as I can to keep the costs down (currently using a A-Bit K8V Deluxe) - It needs to have AGP x8 slot and if possible PCI-X slots but failing that PCI slots (even PCI-X) with at least 4 slots (I have a lot of cards!). If I can I'd also like to keep my memory (Cosair LLPT 3x512mb ddr 400). This is one area I've fallen behind so any pointers are welcome.
Which AMD 64 754 motherboard? (AGP & PCI-X)
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Be careful what you buy. Some of the ones that have agp and pci-e slots for graphics cards actually only have a pci-e slot and an AGR slot. These agr slots are not true agp slots and you will take a considerable performance hit, thats if you have an agp card thats compatiable with it in the first place as they only support certain cards, a list of which is usually on the manufacturers website.
The only mobo's that have a proper agp slot as well as a pci-e slot are the ones with a ULI (i think its ULI) chipset but i have no experience of these boards so cannot say what the performance is like.
If you are not interested in pci-e slots for your graphics card and you want to keep using your agp card then i can heartily reccommend the MSI K8N Neo Platinum. It is an excellent motherboard and uses the Nforce 3 250Gb chipset. I had one (still got it actually) before i did my upgrade. It has 3 ram slots so you can fit up to 3 1gb sticks, 5 pci slots, so you are ok there, an 8x agp graphics card slot, up to 8 USB 2.0 ports, 4 sata ports and a realtek 7.1 onboard sound processor. It also has the bonus of a passive chipset cooler. Overall a very good motherboard and comes with loads of cables, a usb 4 port backplate and an excellent manual.
The only mobo's that have a proper agp slot as well as a pci-e slot are the ones with a ULI (i think its ULI) chipset but i have no experience of these boards so cannot say what the performance is like.
If you are not interested in pci-e slots for your graphics card and you want to keep using your agp card then i can heartily reccommend the MSI K8N Neo Platinum. It is an excellent motherboard and uses the Nforce 3 250Gb chipset. I had one (still got it actually) before i did my upgrade. It has 3 ram slots so you can fit up to 3 1gb sticks, 5 pci slots, so you are ok there, an 8x agp graphics card slot, up to 8 USB 2.0 ports, 4 sata ports and a realtek 7.1 onboard sound processor. It also has the bonus of a passive chipset cooler. Overall a very good motherboard and comes with loads of cables, a usb 4 port backplate and an excellent manual.
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i think your only option if you want to have agp and pci-e is to get a new 939 cpu and the asrock 939 dual sata2 as far as im aware asrock are the only manufacturer that have native pci-e and agp 8x support, all the others use and agp to pci bridge.