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AGP based motherboard and CPU suggestions please
I have an ABIT NF7-S board with XP2500+. I need to upgrade but am, frankly, lost with the choices! I need to use my AGP based ATi 9800 AIW card as one of my need is to capture and convert home videos. I want to go the AMD route. For video work I need a reasonably fast PC. The PC will not be for gaming use. Also, I do not need on-board graphics or audio. Will very much appreciate suggestions please. |
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AGP based motherboard and CPU suggestions please
In article , SDR wrote:
I have an ABIT NF7-S board with XP2500+. I need to upgrade but am, frankly, lost with the choices! I need to use my AGP based ATi 9800 AIW card as one of my need is to capture and convert home videos. I want to go the AMD route. For video work I need a reasonably fast PC. The PC will not be for gaming use. Also, I do not need on-board graphics or audio. Will very much appreciate suggestions please. This site is a great source of information, but the database can never have every motherboard in it. I use this, plus the chipset makers web sites, to pick out some of this info. http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/index.html Asrock is always good for some wacky hardware combos, and that is another source of interesting chipset info. In the following, I've placed emphasis on finding an S939 board, as the S754 is too "dead end" for the job you want to do. When S939 boards first came out, the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset was used on some of them. It has an AGP interface. So boards built on that chipset are one possibility. Asus A8V Deluxe was an example. The Nforce3 chipset had an AGP interface. I think that is mostly on S754 boards, but there are exceptions, like this Gigabyte board and the DFI Lanparty UT nF3 Ultra-D. http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/mo.../GA-K8NSC-939/ http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_prod...YPE=LP&SITE=US ULI has at least one chipset with AGP on it. M1689 does AGP, but some boards are S754 and some are S939. These are S939: ASRock 939A8X-M Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 Chaintech S1689 Abit UL8 The ULI M1695+M1567 has both PCI Express and AGP video interfaces. http://www.uli.com.tw/eng/products/p...tion.php?ssn=4 An example would be ASRock 939Dual-SATA2. You have to be real careful with ASRock, as some of their AGP slots are "fake" AGP. The safest thing to do, is look up info on the chipset itself, and see if the chipset has a "real" AGP interface or not. (I think the yellow slot is a processor expansion slot.) http://www.asrock.com/product/939Dual-SATA2.htm That is just a sampling, and I didn't bother reviewing the SIS offerings. I think they have an AGP chipset suitable for the job too (760GX). Hmmm, I don't see any S939 boards with that chipset though. Paul |
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AGP based motherboard and CPU suggestions please
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:44:16 GMT, SDR wrote:
I have an ABIT NF7-S board with XP2500+. I need to upgrade but am, frankly, lost with the choices! I need to use my AGP based ATi 9800 AIW card as one of my need is to capture and convert home videos. I want to go the AMD route. For video work I need a reasonably fast PC. The PC will not be for gaming use. Also, I do not need on-board graphics or audio. Will very much appreciate suggestions please. Hmmm. This is what I just built recently: www.geocities.com/wilkes_charlie/new_system.htm It's not too different from what you've already got, and I'm using it mostly to edit/render videos. I'm just a hobbiest and not someone with deadlines to meet... but I can get quite a bit done over the course of a day. I'd suggest you either go the cheap route -- max out RAM and overclock your CPU, which is a good one for overclocking -- or else go to NF4/PCI-E with a new video card. Otherwise I think your upgrade might be a disappointment. Charlie |
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AGP based motherboard and CPU suggestions please
"SDR" wrote in message ... I have an ABIT NF7-S board with XP2500+. I need to upgrade but am, frankly, lost with the choices! I need to use my AGP based ATi 9800 AIW card as one of my need is to capture and convert home videos. I want to go the AMD route. For video work I need a reasonably fast PC. The PC will not be for gaming use. Also, I do not need on-board graphics or audio. Will very much appreciate suggestions please. Best choice for AGP is Nforce3 motherboard, try http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...umbna ils=yes While AMD is better for gaming, INTEL is better for video, but it may be harder to find AGP support. eg. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...ilterKeywords= Mike. |
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AGP based motherboard and CPU suggestions please
Charlie Wilkes wrote:
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:44:16 GMT, SDR wrote: I have an ABIT NF7-S board with XP2500+. I need to upgrade but am, frankly, lost with the choices! I need to use my AGP based ATi 9800 AIW card as one of my need is to capture and convert home videos. I want to go the AMD route. For video work I need a reasonably fast PC. The PC will not be for gaming use. Also, I do not need on-board graphics or audio. Will very much appreciate suggestions please. Hmmm. This is what I just built recently: www.geocities.com/wilkes_charlie/new_system.htm It's not too different from what you've already got, and I'm using it mostly to edit/render videos. I'm just a hobbiest and not someone with deadlines to meet... but I can get quite a bit done over the course of a day. I'd suggest you either go the cheap route -- max out RAM and overclock your CPU, which is a good one for overclocking -- or else go to NF4/PCI-E with a new video card. Otherwise I think your upgrade might be a disappointment. Charlie said the ****wit that did not understand o/c the radeon video card. your best bet is to ignore this idiot! HTH, HAND, and GFIA -- sbb78247 Speak the truth and leave shortly there after |
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AGP based motherboard and CPU suggestions please
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:38:17 +0545, "sbb78247"
wrote: Charlie Wilkes wrote: On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:44:16 GMT, SDR wrote: I have an ABIT NF7-S board with XP2500+. I need to upgrade but am, frankly, lost with the choices! I need to use my AGP based ATi 9800 AIW card as one of my need is to capture and convert home videos. I want to go the AMD route. For video work I need a reasonably fast PC. The PC will not be for gaming use. Also, I do not need on-board graphics or audio. Will very much appreciate suggestions please. Hmmm. This is what I just built recently: www.geocities.com/wilkes_charlie/new_system.htm It's not too different from what you've already got, and I'm using it mostly to edit/render videos. I'm just a hobbiest and not someone with deadlines to meet... but I can get quite a bit done over the course of a day. I'd suggest you either go the cheap route -- max out RAM and overclock your CPU, which is a good one for overclocking -- or else go to NF4/PCI-E with a new video card. Otherwise I think your upgrade might be a disappointment. Charlie said the ****wit that did not understand o/c the radeon video card. I figured it out. your best bet is to ignore this idiot! What is your sage advice to this person? Charlie |
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AGP based motherboard and CPU suggestions please
In article , Enos Nivek
wrote: On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:10:17 GMT, (Paul) wrote: http://www.uli.com.tw/eng/products/p...tion.php?ssn=4 An example would be ASRock 939Dual-SATA2. You have to be real careful with ASRock, as some of their AGP slots are "fake" AGP. This specific mb doesn't use a "fake" AGP slot. In fact it's the only mb that has both AGP and PCI-E were the AGP runs at full speed. I agree that not every one of their motherboards is like that. But is ****es me off to see motherboard companies take advantage of people, so when I see a company hiding the details of what they've built, I have to say something. If I was buying something from Asrock, I would research whether the hardware is capable of driving the video card slots properly, and so I warn other potential customers to do the same check. I have no problem with kludges, as long as a company is honest about what the performance will be like. Paul |
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