Any Motherboards with AGP and PCI express

[TurkzZ]

i was wondering if there were any motherboads with both AGP and PCI, tis is for i am plannig a PC that will last for the long term, i have a good 9800 pro now agp and i am not looking to replace it. But in the future PCI will be better.

Also should i wait untill the next Intel Pentium rage comes out or will the AMD now be more powerfull?

thank you

the turk

 

[Crashman]

There are a few, but all except for the ULi chipset boards use PCI for an AGP card, hardly an acceptable solution. And ULi chipset boards are very hard to find!

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[lonelypauly]

Just get a socket 939 board!

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[Crashman]

Which one?

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[TurkzZ]

ARE THEY ANY GOOD, (these AGP and PCI boards)

the turk

 

[dunklegend]

Probably not as good as a dedicated PCIe or AGP board.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one thath will go wrong first will be the one that will do the most possible damage

 

[Crashman]

ULi's solution looks promissing, their combination chipset putting a real AGP8x controller on the southbridge and linking that to the PCI-Express nortbridge via a HyperTransport bus, but I still haven't found any boards using it!

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[markgun]

Here's a <A HREF="http://www.ocworkbench.com/2005/uli/m1695/g1.htm" target="_new">review</A> of a <b>reference/sample</b> board using the chipset Crashman was speaking of.

I hope some manufacturers higher up the tier pick up this chipset (instead of the typical ECS, Jetway, et cetera). I'd hate to see a good chipset go to waste on cheap boards, like how SIS gets continually screwed over. Abit recently picked up the ULI 1689 chipset with a <A HREF="http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/techspec.php?categories=1&model=271" target="_new">socket 754 board</A>. So, there's a glint of hope that they'll make a board using another ULI chipset(the M1695)!

 

[TurkzZ]

thanks mate

the turk

 

[Crashman]

Wow, that does look just about perfect, no?

Give me the contact info for ULi, I'll ask them which partners I should contact for a review sample on a production board.

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