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opinion: fastest agp board
I'm still slugging it out with 478pin p4 agp technology.
Can anyone tell me what the fastest agp board is, since I'm not in the market to jump to pci-e yet... I have 4gbs of ocz platinum pc3200 ram and an ATI x850xt platinum video...thanks very much. |
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opinion: fastest agp board
"Luvrsmel" wrote in message ...
I'm still slugging it out with 478pin p4 agp technology. Can anyone tell me what the fastest agp board is, since I'm not in the market to jump to pci-e yet... I have 4gbs of ocz platinum pc3200 ram and an ATI x850xt platinum video...thanks very much. ATI makes a 3850 AGP. That's the fastest. But at anything over 1024x768 resolution in most newer games, you'll be severely CPU limited with any S478 P4. |
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opinion: fastest agp board
Luvrsmel wrote:
I'm still slugging it out with 478pin p4 agp technology. Can anyone tell me what the fastest agp board is, since I'm not in the market to jump to pci-e yet... I have 4gbs of ocz platinum pc3200 ram and an ATI x850xt platinum video...thanks very much. I use an Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 motherboard, as it supports AGP video cards, and accepts Core2 processors. But it is hardly a full featured motherboard. It has two DDR slots and two DDR2 slots for memory (use only one type at a time). I simply got 2x1GB of DDR2 for it, and didn't bother reusing my existing 2x512MB of DDR. DDR2 is dirt cheap, compared to the price I paid for the other memory. One thing I've found about this board, is memory bandwidth is on the low end of the scale. http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...2%20R2.0&s=775 So that is a mechanism to reuse an AGP video card, if that is what you're looking for. The processor socket is LGA775 on that one, and allows upgrading to faster Core2 processors. I use an E4700 processor with it, but it turns out the board needs to be hacked to overclock it (I've run the processor at 3.46GHz, by boosting Vcore with a soldering iron). So using an FSB1066 processor is probably the best you can do if you don't own a soldering iron. For example, the E7300 is probably relatively cheap ($120), compared to some of the other entries. http://www.asrock.com/mb/cpu.asp?Mod...2%20R2.0&s=775 These are my results from testing yesterday. (The hyphens are to try to preserve the formatting, when archived in Google.) The DDR2-533 memory is running 3-3-3-12 1T. -------------------------------------------------------SuperPI Memtest 1.65 -------------------------------------------------------1M (sec) Bandwidth -------------------------------------------------------lower is (MB/sec) ------------------------------------------------------- better 200 x 13 = 2.60GHz, FSB800, DDR2-533, Single channel 24.05 2203 (stock) Dual channel 22.87 2668 266 x 10 = 2.66GHz, FSB1066, DDR2-533, Single channel 23.47 ---- Dual channel 22.52 ---- 266 x 13 = 3.46GHz, FSB1066, DDR2-533, Single channel 19.37 2419 Dual channel 18.42 3305 For comparison, you can test SuperPI and calculate 1 million digits of PI and compare your current time. On my 3200+ and P4 3.1GHz systems, I'd get about 45 to 50 seconds for 1 million digits. SuperPI runs on one core of a processor. http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/ http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/super_pi_mod-1.5.zip I think the current record for 1 million digits, is below 8 seconds, so I have a ways to go yet. HTH, Paul |
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