New Horizon on 17/2/2007 at 03:18
Just be wary of cheap 'too good to be true' motherboards. I picked one up a few years ago when I was trying to save a few dollars. I ended up in reboot city, the thing was just crap. Dropped an extra $150 down, on top of the $80 I was going to pay for the cheap board, and I never had a problem afterwards. Used the same hardware as the cheap board, but the more expensive board made life that much easier. Just depends what you're looking to do, save money...or save a headache. :)
bikerdude on 17/2/2007 at 09:42
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Just be wary of cheap 'too good to be true' motherboards. :)
I'm using one of the boards I recommended in my second pc, so no fear there
biker
voodoo47 on 18/2/2007 at 20:12
I'm using one of the dual series mobos as well,no problems at all.
Cliftor on 19/2/2007 at 09:30
Really? But the review says there are some problems, and that the PCIe slot is actually a proprietary imitation that only has x4 channels, not the max PCIe x16.
bikerdude on 19/2/2007 at 10:57
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Really? But the review says there are some problems, and that the PCIe slot is actually a proprietary imitation that only has x4 channels, not the max PCIe x16.
Its is a Fully functional PCI-e slot, that just runs at 4x instead of 16x - most users wont notice the difference. The Cpu that most people will be running on this type of board isnt going to be fast enough to take advantage of a 16x graphics card, the idea is to give you a choise of PCI/AGP/PCI-E thats all. Im actually running vista premium/suse linux on the spare pc and its fine...
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Search ebay for an AGP Radeon 9800 Pro. They MUST be cheap by now, and they'll run Thief 3 more than well enough.
This was a very good card in its day, and yes its cheap as chips, but honestly there are much better/faster/newer card that dont cost much more.
X800 agp/pci-e or 6800 agp/pci-e
biker
Ultraviolet on 19/2/2007 at 15:45
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I wish they'd used a different name when coming up with PCI Express.
How about PIPELANE ULTIMAX?
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Damn HP, why would they build a compy in 2005 with a mobo with no AGP or PCIe slots? *sigh*
To save a little money on every PC they build, and thus save a LOT of money over all, and STILL overcharge the customer.
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From now own I build my OWN computers...
Just remember, when in doubt, ask TTLG. :P
voodoo47 on 19/2/2007 at 18:27
4 pci-e lanes are enough for any mainstream graphics card,the performance difference is simply not noticable (1-5%,compared to a 8 lane slot).actually a 8 lane slot is pretty much enough for ANY graphics card out there (thats why most SLI/crossfire chipsets give 8 lanes to each vga card if you are running SLI/CF,its simply enough,16 lanes for a single card is overkill.or marketing,if you want).
I would say,if you dont want to buy new cpu and memory,go for the asrock dual board,they simply own for the price,and you can slap in just about any graphics card that is out there :thumb:
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http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/22/sli_is_coming/page10.html) see here..
Cliftor on 21/2/2007 at 03:10
Well, I guess what I'd do is buy an Asrock mobo, if I can find a reliable seller in the states. That way I can continue to use my CPU which is plenty fast enough, and my memory. Hell, I might not have to buy a new compy for a while with that mobo + a new card.
