Re: Any New Asus Boards With An AGP Slot?

I've always heard good things about the Asrock motherboards.
Asrock is a subsidiary of Asus.
I believe Asus has ECS builds the motherboards for them.

"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <r8jee21pj35cnio22v9rngukcukavuk4e4@xxxxxxx>, justin david
<ustindavid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I want to build a new box but I also have two very good AGP graphics
cards and I don't want to spring for a new card. I need the board to
accommodate at least 4 gigs of memory. Thanks.

The problem is one of chipsets.

Intel is fully committed to PCI Express, and generally tries
to push the industry to new technologies, before the customer
base is ready to move. 875/865/848 was the last family to support
AGP well, and some manufacturers still seem to have some
stock from those chipsets.

For Athlon64, the last candidates might have been Nforce3
from Nvidia, K8T800Pro from Via. Those were the mainstream
solutions. ULI has a chipset pair uses on an Asrock board,
that offers both an AGP 8X slot and a full PCi Express x16 lane
slot (and ULI was bought by Nvidia).

Right now, on the Intel side, there are still a few 865
solutions (again, check Asrock). Those would have an AGP
slot and use ICH5.

Via makes PT800 Ultra, where the Northbridge has an AGP
interface, but only PCI Express x4 lane wiring for the
x16 video slot. That means there is slightly less bandwidth
available for a PCI Express video card on the board
(Bidirectionally 1GB/sec versus 4GB/sec on a normal
PCI Express chipset. AGP 8X is 2.1GB/sec unidirectional
by comparison.)

Asrock likes to build boards based on solutions like that,
and is the place to look for legacy support. Asus doesn't
use that ULI chipset for example. I think Asus does have
a PT800 Ultra solution, but they may not be available
in all parts of the world. Asrock likes to make Conroe
compatible solutions, whereas this one probably won't go
there:

Asus P5VDC-X LGA775 PT800 Ultra AGP+PCIE x4 video (No Conroe)
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=206&model=1126&modelmenu=1
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpu_support_right_master.aspx?type=1&name=P5VDC-X&SLanguage=en-us&cache=1

Paul




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