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hussainshah   12-19-2006 at 09:31:59 PM

I recently bought an x850pro agp graphic card and unlocked the 12 pipelines to full 16. Now the problem is that my motherboard broke down so I have decided to go for a new motherboard + cpu. Can somebody please help me.

Limitations:
Agp Slot
DDR Ram
200$ budget


Any help would be appreciated.

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o1die   12-19-2006 at 11:08:33 PM
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After reading your post more carefully, I recommend you get socket 939 while you still can. There are still a few 939 boards that support agp, but no am2 that I know of. I just purchased a spare retail boxed 3200 with an old chaintech 1689 board. Total was $108 shipped, from newegg and 3b tech. I have 6 sticks of ddram and 3 agp cards.

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hussainshah   12-20-2006 at 08:46:11 AM
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Any Advice with links to motherboards and cpus. I once again thankyou for your help.l

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hussainshah   12-20-2006 at 10:50:29 AM
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How does the following three cpu's look to you:

setup 1:
amd opteron 144
msi k8n neo2

setup 2:
amd 3800++
msi k8n neo2

setup 3:
core2duo e6300
asrock 775

I would welcom any other setup suggestion specially ones using intel setups.

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Anoobis   12-20-2006 at 07:20:34 PM
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Any one of those combos would be sufficient with the Opty being the weakest link. If you can swing it, then the Asrock and the E6300 isn't a bad route to go but I'm not sure you can justify the cost. For the money the E6300 isn't going to make a huge difference in gaming compared to the 3800 and you can save a few bucks by going with the 3800.

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o1die   12-20-2006 at 11:36:37 PM
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Fry's still has the ecs board combo with e6300 about once every 2 or 3 weeks, if you live near one. Cheapest deal (with retail boxed heatsink) was $179.99.

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