Having been a mild 'fanboy' of AMD since the K6-2 days, I recently came to a hard decision and decided I simply couldnt justify the price of an A64 3500 when the Pentium D 805 was so much cheaper and such a legendary overclocker
Unfortunately the mobo I bought with it (which was an 865 chipset board, I need AGP and DDR support here!) did not support it, which does make me wish Intel would have a socket change each time they change compatibility rather than leave the annoying guesswork, but no matter....
As such I'm in the market for a new Mobo, and have a couple of Ideas in mind....
The Asus P5VDC-X, which annoyingly only has 2 DDR slots, but also has 2 DDR2 slots, AGP and PCI-E tho I understand the x16 slot is only x4 electrically.
The ASrock 775Dual-880Pro, which seems almost the same board, not surprising as ASrock and Asus are the same company I suppose....
The idea here is that I can upgrade in stages and dump the mobo when I have a PCI-E gfx card and DDR2 ram - Although I own one of the 24 pipeline Gainward 7800GS cards based on the 7900GT chip so this is likely to last a while.
Anyone have any better mobo suggestions? I realise the ASrock one doesnt allow me to increase the CPU voltage, and therefore limits my overclock, but I cant find any reviews of the Asus one at all so I'm not sure.
Thanks!
Unfortunately the mobo I bought with it (which was an 865 chipset board, I need AGP and DDR support here!) did not support it, which does make me wish Intel would have a socket change each time they change compatibility rather than leave the annoying guesswork, but no matter....
As such I'm in the market for a new Mobo, and have a couple of Ideas in mind....
The Asus P5VDC-X, which annoyingly only has 2 DDR slots, but also has 2 DDR2 slots, AGP and PCI-E tho I understand the x16 slot is only x4 electrically.
The ASrock 775Dual-880Pro, which seems almost the same board, not surprising as ASrock and Asus are the same company I suppose....
The idea here is that I can upgrade in stages and dump the mobo when I have a PCI-E gfx card and DDR2 ram - Although I own one of the 24 pipeline Gainward 7800GS cards based on the 7900GT chip so this is likely to last a while.
Anyone have any better mobo suggestions? I realise the ASrock one doesnt allow me to increase the CPU voltage, and therefore limits my overclock, but I cant find any reviews of the Asus one at all so I'm not sure.
Thanks!