am2 AND AGP in one board?

[BruisedJohn]

I'm looking to upgrade my system to an am2 MB/dual core AMD and faster memory. I'd like to keep my AGP graphics board. Are there any mobos out there that can do that?

 

[shabodah]

Closest thing you're gonna find is the AsRock 939DualSata2 board. It has both PCIex16 and AGP slots. You'll have to get the AM2 riser board for it for what you have in mind. By the time you upgrade everything else, you got to keep in mind, the GPU won't be that much more. You can get a very nice PCIe card for a great price.

 

[Pompeii]

Just get a pci-e card. In the end it will cost you about the same anyway.

Pci-e cards can be bought pretty cheap now.

 

[shabodah]

thanks for the repost:

By the time you upgrade everything else, you got to keep in mind, the GPU won't be that much more. You can get a very nice PCIe card for a great price.

 

[CannedTurkey]

This is the only one I've come across. I'm not even sure it exists, as the only boards listed on Biostar's website for the AM2 socket have Nvidia chipsets.

Biostar K8M800-AM2

It may only be available in some sort of pre-order context, if at all.

 

[BruisedJohn]

thanks everyone for the input

 

[pat]

I'm looking to upgrade my system to an am2 MB/dual core AMD and faster memory. I'd like to keep my AGP graphics board. Are there any mobos out there that can do that?

Asrock has a motherboard, listed on its website with nforce3 for AM2.

 

[MrCommunistGen]

What is the reasoning behind getting an AM2 with AGP? I can understand wanting to recycle a GPU, I ran into this same problem when I wanted to upgrade my mobo. The main advantage of AM2 is futureproofing, since you can currently get (virtually) all the same processors on S939. They haven't yet gotten around to making faster processors to make AM2 "special". Using AGP is almost the exact opposite since AGP is already basically dead. I'd just stick with S939 if you're looking to stay AGP, or save up a bit more cash and get and AM2 or C2D system with PCI-E.

-mcg

 

[chrone]

Yeah, here is the exact mobo type from ASRock

ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA
http://www.asrock.com/product/AM2NF3-VSTA.htm

looks pretty good to me, the only drawback that the pcb doesn't support sata 2, but it's ready for windows vista though.

 

[pat]

Yeah, here is the exact mobo type from ASRock

ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA
http://www.asrock.com/product/AM2NF3-VSTA.htm

looks pretty good to me, the only drawback that the pcb doesn't support sata 2, but it's ready for windows vista though.

But SATA2 aint really useful.. NCQ don't really help for desktop environnement, Hot swapping is not really useful unless you have to swap HDD while your computer is doing mission critical operation and the extra speed for the interface is wasted as hdd don't even fully use the ATA100 bandwidth ... as most hdd gives about 60 MB/s ..

So, that aint really a drawback IMHO, as for one, I never put SATA2 on my priority list for now... maybe in 4-5 years, when HDD will perform better ..