ATI Xpress 200 can handle a 8800GT?

Itll work fine. You wont lose as much performance with this mobo as you will with your 939, and even that wont bring a 8800 down, unless its crsis, which brings everything down or flight sim, which needs a kick cpu

No worries neibour.The 1.0 version will run the 8800GT just fine.Your only bottleneck will be the CPU.Maybe.Depends how fast it is and if you're willing to overclock.Goodluck.

Dahak

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Thanks guys, I was hoping for that answer

Yea my CPU is hitting a low end I know 939s are on there last leg so I was just gonna throw the AMD Opteron 185 in there and just ride low on all games for hopfully 2 years.

Out of all games I bet Computer manufactures love Crysis the most, a huge zerg of upgraders.

That Opteron 185 will overclock quite nicely.Get some good after market cooling and start oc'ing to your hearts content.With a stock speed of 2.6ghz,you should be able to hit 2.8-2.9ghz fairly easily.Goodluck.

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Hmm I was looking at what CPUs the Xpress200 chipset can use and I don't see Opteron listed I only see
AMD Sempron™, AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Athlon™ 64 FX processors

Will an Opteron 185 work in my chipset?

You may be required to update your motherboard BIOS.Other than that,you should be good to go.Goodluck.

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I have the opposite problem, I first considered an 8800GT but have decided to go X3870 instead. My MSI motherboard does not like ATI cards. Note the following:

Quote:

One PCI Express X16 slot (Run at x8 mode)
(Due to the specification of the chipset, ATI X8xx, X7xx, X5xx, and X3xx series graphic card will not be supported.)

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K9N6SGM-V&class=mb

The manual actually adds the X1600, X1800 and X1900 to the list.

So, I swapped PCs with my son and will go with a P4 630 on an ASUS X200 based ATI board. That way I can get an X3870 next Monday.

When AMD releases their hybrid Crossfire DX10 board in January, I'm going to build a new system with a 2.2 Phenom anyways. I'm also ordering a new powersupply from Newegg (a Corsair 450 with 33 amps on the 12 volt rail), as the ones in both PCs are Cooler Master 450's with only 22 amps.

Is the 405 chipset the only example of a chipset that won't take the other company's cards? All the other Nvidia and all the ATI chipsets can get along with any card that matches the slot.

Good luck with your upgrade, I'll be CPU bottlenecked on Hellgate London, though it probably won't affect The Witcher, which are the two games I'm really looking forward to playing over the holidays.