Esskie -> RE: Advice Needed (2/24/2006 4:59:24 AM)
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Hi There, PCI-Express is the new graphics card slot/interface & runs at x16 speed opposed to AGP's x8 maximum. Having also used AMD cpu's for ages now I can't see me going to Intel but you never know?, I've no immediate plans to go the Intel route though. I currently own two AMD processor motherboards, one is a fairly inexpensive board made by WinFast/LeadTek, who have become one. I think WinFast & LeadTek worked together on various projects previously until WinFast bought over LeadTek?. This motherboard is a 6100-K8MA with PCI-E, it has an nForce 410 MCP chipset so works well with NVidia graphics cards, I've got a 256MbDDR2 6600 card in there atm but there's an NVIDIA GeForce 6100 onboard GPU if you need it. I won't go into detail as you can check for yourself by following the link to it's sec page. Another Sckt-754 board which supports x8 AGP is the Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro, it supports AMD cpu's from Sempron 2600+ (Paris and Palermo) through to the Athlon 64 3700+ (Venice, SledgeHammer, Newcastle). Both motherboards have onboard 7.1 or 8.1 sound, DDR400, FireWire, onboard LAN etc,. It might be worth considering the PCI-Express graphics interface though as the word on the vine is that AGP is being phased out gradually, I can't comment on this myself? but Im presuming AGP will be around for a while yet as there are still new AGP cards being shipped?. All I know is that Doom 3 looks amazing running at 1024 x 768 and above with 32-bit colour with my PCI-E card compared to my 128Mb GeForce4-4400 (x8 AGP) & I'm achieving consistent frame rates in the multiple hundreds range with Quake 3. Sorry for my long reply but I've a habit of prattling on [sm=8.gif] [;)]. Regards, Esskie.
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