Re: Gigabyte with Gigs


"Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Customer with A8V-VM board asked me to upgrade mobo: I've basically taken
his PC apart and rebuilt with Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H mobo and 4x1GB
Crucial DDR2 800MHz RAM sticks, AMD 64x2 4800+ 2.5GHz CPU. I've got as far
as powering up and testing POST = OK. I'm not too sure about the following
scenario though: The board has ATI Radeon onboard graphics but I'm hoping
to run the PCIe nVidia t/c graphics card from his A8V-VM . - Is this wise
or does anyone forsee problems in doing so? Would I be better off just
sticking to the onboard graphics for now?

Secondly I chose this board for him on a bit of female intuition having
read a few reviews and checking out the spec of several easily-available
not-so-pricey motherboards: (I've never used this particular board before
to date.) IMO it's quite a respectable board for the price. Initially I'm
installing 32-bit XP on it for him (I am aware that XP won't see all of
the installed RAM.); with a view to a possible future os upgrade to Vista
or Windows 7; hence the large amount of RAM. Would anyone like to share
opinions? I'd appreciate it, and any comments may be helpful.

This is a rather early stage for me to say any more: I have to get into
the BIOS and everything now... All I've done so far is build it and it
seems to work OK. If anyone has any useful comments I'd appreciate your
sharing them with me. Thanks.

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Generally, a plug in graphics card is better in performance as opposed to
onboard unless it's a particularly crap card or particularly good onboard
chip. Some manufacturers occasionally do produce boards with high
performance vga chips onboard but these tend to be expensive boards and the
one you mention seems to be a budget one from how you speak.

So, what exactly is the pci-e graphics card you intend to use, make and
model please? You should be providing these details as a matter of course by
now.



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