Need new motherboard

[J.B. & Kathy]

I just got an ATI X800 XL AGP video card and need to build a new system
around that. What is the best board for performance and gaming out now with
AGP? I've been looking and the more I look the more confused I get. Any help
will be awesome.
Thanks,
Jay

 

[Hawkeye]

ASUS A8V DELUXE if your going AMD is a good choice

 

[Phil]

I would recommend the very sweet DFI Lanparty 875P-T

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136148#DetailSpecs

 

[farmuse]

I would recommend the very sweet DFI Lanparty 875P-T

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136148#DetailSpecs

Abit NF7-S or socket 939 dual channel would be my choices

 

[Julian Richards]

I just got an ATI X800 XL AGP video card and need to build a new system
around that. What is the best board for performance and gaming out now with
AGP? I've been looking and the more I look the more confused I get. Any help
will be awesome.
Thanks,
Jay

Not wishing to be funny about it, but if you are building a new system
around a card, why isn't the card PCI-E?
--

Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

www.richardsuk.f9.co.uk
Website of "Robot Wars" middleweight "Broadsword IV"

 

[DDC]

I just got an ATI X800 XL AGP video card and need to build a new system
around that. What is the best board for performance and gaming out now with
AGP? I've been looking and the more I look the more confused I get. Any help
will be awesome.
Thanks,
Jay

sell the card before the price dro donw to 300$ can that way you will
get an auther card pci-e like a x800 and benefit from a pci-e
architecture witch deliver smooter frame rate "not the x800 card" the
pci-e slot. imo.

 

[JK]

I recommend any ASUS motherboard with an Nvidia or ATI chipset, AGP, and the
latest AMD socket (939 I think). Go AMD for gaming, absolutely the best
bang for the buck.

JK

 

[Kevin]

I just got an ATI X800 XL AGP video card and need to build a new system
around that. What is the best board for performance and gaming out now with
AGP? I've been looking and the more I look the more confused I get. Any help
will be awesome.
Thanks,
Jay

I assume you want an AMD64 cpu. If so, I would get this motherboard
because it has both AGP and PCI-E (allows you to go PCI-E when it
actually shows a benefit). Asrock is Asus.


http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=16165&vpn=939DUAL-SATA2&manufacture=ASRock

 

[J.B. & Kathy]

Thanks for the suggestions. I am planning on going with AMD so for now it
looks like the ASUS A8V Deluxe is the one. This will certainly hold me for a
couple years. Again thanks to all for your input.

Jay

 

[Wookie]

Go for the ASROCK 939SATA2

 

[DDC]

So far nobody has demonstrated successfully that AGP 4x is a bottleneck for
any real-world purpose. While there are good reasons for going to PCI
Express, better video performance than AGP is not one of them.

Have you try the agp 8x version ???.

Anyway agp8x/pci-e are mostly the same but the name... pci-e are
agp16x but with a different slot to make people buy supposedly new
technologies.

If it was't about the video card switching i would have done the move
to 64cpu for long...

 

[TonyC]

I just got an ATI X800 XL AGP video card and need to build a new system
around that. What is the best board for performance and gaming out now with
AGP? I've been looking and the more I look the more confused I get. Any
help will be awesome.
Thanks,
Jay

Whatever board you get it's the chipset that's most important, make sure
it's nForce3/4.

 

[farmuse]

Not wishing to be funny about it, but if you are building a new system
around a card, why isn't the card PCI-E?
--

Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

www.richardsuk.f9.co.uk
Website of "Robot Wars" middleweight "Broadsword IV"

because it is not. because you can't have a device be two things.
because he bought an AGP card. get over it.

actually, the only compelling reason to go PCI-E is to upgrade to
a new motherboard etc. AGP is still a fine and useful video protocol,
despite what the industry says. I bet there are many many more people
who will be using AGP in the next two years than there will be PCI-E
simply because they have no need to upgrade. For every new PCI-E video
card made today, there are hundreds of AGP cards that simply do not need
to be replaced. Someday maybe, but the transition will be slow.

 

[Kevin]

sell the card before the price dro donw to 300$ can that way you will
get an auther card pci-e like a x800 and benefit from a pci-e
architecture witch deliver smooter frame rate "not the x800 card" the
pci-e slot. imo.

Show me the benchmarks that prove what you say. No need, I already
know you are full of it.

 

[J. Clarke]

because it is not. because you can't have a device be two things.
because he bought an AGP card. get over it.

It's actually a fair question.

actually, the only compelling reason to go PCI-E is to upgrade to
a new motherboard etc.

Which is exactly what the OP is doing.

AGP is still a fine and useful video protocol,
despite what the industry says. I bet there are many many more people
who will be using AGP in the next two years than there will be PCI-E
simply because they have no need to upgrade. For every new PCI-E video
card made today, there are hundreds of AGP cards that simply do not need
to be replaced. Someday maybe, but the transition will be slow.

Which has exactly what relevance to the building of a completely new system?

 

[TonyC]

because it is not. because you can't have a device be two things.
because he bought an AGP card. get over it.

actually, the only compelling reason to go PCI-E is to upgrade to a
new motherboard etc. AGP is still a fine and useful video protocol,
despite what the industry says. I bet there are many many more people who
will be using AGP in the next two years than there will be PCI-E simply
because they have no need to upgrade. For every new PCI-E video card made
today, there are hundreds of AGP cards that simply do not need to be
replaced. Someday maybe, but the transition will be slow.

The end is nigh for AGP cards, newer models don't even come in AGP format
only PCI Express.

Whats the point of building a new PC to stick with AGP!?!

 

[Julian Richards]

Have you try the agp 8x version ???.

Anyway agp8x/pci-e are mostly the same but the name... pci-e are
agp16x but with a different slot to make people buy supposedly new
technologies.

If it was't about the video card switching i would have done the move
to 64cpu for long...

Kevin has recommended an AGP/PCI-E board.
--

Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

www.richardsuk.f9.co.uk
Website of "Robot Wars" middleweight "Broadsword IV"

 

[farmuse]

It's actually a fair question.




Which is exactly what the OP is doing.

right, and the op has an AGP card

Which has exactly what relevance to the building of a completely new system?

because many people build a new machine when what they have is
fine. AGP is fine. PCI-E, SLI, and all that is silly stuff, the only
reason to upgrade is if you HAVE TO in order to run newer apps, and the
only reason to buy PCI-E is because that motherboard does not have an
AGP slot. People buy what they really don't need.

 

[farmuse]

Whats the point of building a new PC to stick with AGP!?!


That's a reasonable question.

there are still plenty of motherboards that support AGP that
are good choices, some folks do like to save money. lots of those
motherboards are at bargain prices too.

 

[J. Clarke]

The end is nigh for AGP cards, newer models don't even come in AGP format
only PCI Express.

Which specific "newer models" do you have in mind?

Whats the point of building a new PC to stick with AGP!?!

That's a reasonable question.