Motherboard for Optron 144 with AGP & DDR slots?

I'm looking at getting an Optron 144.
I've got an X1600 AGP card and 3 stick of 512MB PC3200 memory.
And a 600W power supply, 1 SATA & 1 PATA HD and a DVD burn & a DVD player.
What would be a good motherboard for overclocking?

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wrote:

I'm looking at getting an Optron 144.
I've got an X1600 AGP card and 3 stick of 512MB PC3200 memory.
And a 600W power supply, 1 SATA & 1 PATA HD and a DVD burn & a DVD player.
What would be a good motherboard for overclocking?

Life would be a lot simpler for you, if you used a PCI Express
video card. There are some AGP motherboards, but some of them
have unlockable clocks (so PCI/AGP clocks rise when the CPU
clock is increased over 200MHz). Others are missing necessary
features, like the ability to change Vcore to any great
extent. I believe Gigabyte made some Nforce3 S939 motherboards,
but I don't know anything about them in terms of feature set.
You can look for more possibilities, by selecting S939 and
AGP, in this search engine. (I don't know how many of these
are still being manufactured.)

I got 59 hits, by using "S939" and "AGP 8X" external graphics:
http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/index.html

Note that not all brands are mentioned there, as the Asrock
939Dual-SATA2 is not listed. I believe that board has limited
Vcore.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2005/asro...emodguide2.htm

Paul

Anyone tried the AsRock motherboards?

"Tod" wrote in message
nk.net...
I'm looking at getting an Optron 144.
I've got an X1600 AGP card and 3 stick of 512MB PC3200 memory.
And a 600W power supply, 1 SATA & 1 PATA HD and a DVD burn & a DVD player.
What would be a good motherboard for overclocking?

Tod wrote:
I'm looking at getting an Optron 144.
I've got an X1600 AGP card and 3 stick of 512MB PC3200 memory.
And a 600W power supply, 1 SATA & 1 PATA HD and a DVD burn & a DVD player.
What would be a good motherboard for overclocking?



tyan are the best suitable board for your opteron, you have boards that
accept up to 4 cpu and 64 gb memory..


power supply go for 680W +, the x1600pro be better, but for a opteron
make it the Fire series of ATI... put 2 memory stick of 1.Gb be better
if its ECC and awsome control with buffalo memory or Samsung or Crucial.


See ya bro.
mike from Antissn.com.
antissn.phpbbnow.com

I haven't used your particular combination, but I liked an Asus A8V Deluxe.
(The A8V-E Deluxe is a PCI-Express board.) www.newegg.com doesn't list it at
the moment, but the A8V is the it lacks mainly the third-party SATA/PATA
RAID controller and the Firewire port. The Via K8T800 Pro chipset appeared
to be a good one, even though Via has a reputation for dicey chipsets.

I'm not sure that it would be regarded as a good overclocker, but the
AGP/PCI locks are supposed to work on the newer revision of the board. I ran
a 4400+ X2 at a (manual) 10% OC, quite reliably. I didn't do a lot of
testing, but I don't think things were reliable at 20% with a Thermalright
XP-120 heatsink.

I think that using DDR DIMMs is not recommended (1 is OK, but only in a
specific slot), but I doubt that's unusual for Socket 939 systems, which are
intended for dual-channel use.


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"Tod" wrote in message
nk.net...
I'm looking at getting an Optron 144.
I've got an X1600 AGP card and 3 stick of 512MB PC3200 memory.
And a 600W power supply, 1 SATA & 1 PATA HD and a DVD burn & a DVD player.
What would be a good motherboard for overclocking?

Was thinking more of AsRock with ULI chipset.

"Bob Knowlden" wrote in message
...
I haven't used your particular combination, but I liked an Asus A8V Deluxe.
(The A8V-E Deluxe is a PCI-Express board.) www.newegg.com doesn't list it
at the moment, but the A8V is the it lacks mainly the third-party
SATA/PATA RAID controller and the Firewire port. The Via K8T800 Pro chipset
appeared to be a good one, even though Via has a reputation for dicey
chipsets.

I'm not sure that it would be regarded as a good overclocker, but the
AGP/PCI locks are supposed to work on the newer revision of the board. I
ran a 4400+ X2 at a (manual) 10% OC, quite reliably. I didn't do a lot of
testing, but I don't think things were reliable at 20% with a Thermalright
XP-120 heatsink.

I think that using DDR DIMMs is not recommended (1 is OK, but only in a
specific slot), but I doubt that's unusual for Socket 939 systems, which
are intended for dual-channel use.


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"Tod" wrote in message
nk.net...
I'm looking at getting an Optron 144.
I've got an X1600 AGP card and 3 stick of 512MB PC3200 memory.
And a 600W power supply, 1 SATA & 1 PATA HD and a DVD burn & a DVD
player.
What would be a good motherboard for overclocking?

This one, maybe?

http://www.asrock.com/product/939Dual-SATA2.htm

Asrock boards tend to be budget products, but this one is supposed to have
good performance (competitive with an nVidia nForce 4 board), as well as
supporting both PCI-E and AGP graphics cards with full performance. I have
no idea how overclockable it may be, though.

"Tod" wrote in message
nk.net...
Was thinking more of AsRock with ULI chipset.

"Bob Knowlden" wrote in message
...
I haven't used your particular combination, but I liked an Asus A8V
Deluxe. (The A8V-E Deluxe is a PCI-Express board.) www.newegg.com doesn't
list it at the moment, but the A8V is the it lacks mainly the
third-party SATA/PATA RAID controller and the Firewire port. The Via
K8T800 Pro chipset appeared to be a good one, even though Via has a
reputation for dicey chipsets.

(snip)

"Tod" wrote in message
nk.net...
I'm looking at getting an Optron 144.
I've got an X1600 AGP card and 3 stick of 512MB PC3200 memory.
And a 600W power supply, 1 SATA & 1 PATA HD and a DVD burn & a DVD player.
What would be a good motherboard for overclocking?

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p..._Neo2_Platinum


Running a Optron 165 at 9 x 300, AGP works well unlike what you may find
with some of the dual pcie-agp boards. The only thing that was required for
a good overclock was fast ram.