WTB: Socket 754 mobo w/PCI-E

[RobertM525]

I'm interested in buying a good condition Socket 754 motherboard that has a PCI-E 16x slot on it and supports SATA hard drives. Preferably one that Windows XP natively can see without having to use a FDD to pre-load drivers (I think nForce mobos are this way... maybe).

I also need a decent PCI-E video card, too, really, but I was going to worry about that separately.

 

[badge]

I have several 754 Mbs that may be of interest. Post message me for details.

 

[ibleet]

What type of PCI-E card are you after?

I have an EVGA 7900GS KO that I might part with. Let me know.

 

[RobertM525]

I'm looking for something better than an AGP 256MB GeForce 6600 that's cheap.

It'll be a backup computer that my wife will play WoW on, but that's basically it. I don't need anything that fancy.

 

[ibleet]

Send me a PM if you want to make me an offer on my EVGA 7900GS KO - it is less than 6 months old and never overclocked. It plays WoW extremely well. Thanks

 

[basketcase]

I have a combo that could be of interest... though it is AGP. But, I also have a AGP EVGA 7800 GS 256 GDDR3 Ram video card to go with it.

The mobo is a EPOX 8hmmi-a (I have to look it up for sure.) micro ATX. I also have a socket 754 A64 3200+ Venice core. Combine that with the 7800 GS and it is a pretty formadable PC. The board supports sata natively (no extra drivers needed).

On top of that, I do have 1 gig of ram (two sticks of ram, DDR 266 2 x 512 Mb). I had all of it working together perfectly. I was able to play every game I tried very well, Enemy Terretory: Quake Wars, Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights 2, Rainbow 6 Vegas. It played WoW flawlessly on almost max settings (I think I used 4xAA and 8xAF, but everything ingame maxed).

I am looking to get rid of all of it, so let me know if you have any interest in any or all the parts. None of the parts are older than a year, the video card is about 4 months old (never OC'd, though I heard it is very good at it). The CPU has never been OC'd either, though it is supposed to be a champ too. I also have a stock AMD HSF to go with it.

But, I don't know how you feel about going AGP. The video card will definately blow your 6600 out of the water, though.

 

[ibleet]

Did you even read the Original Post basketcase? Its clearly listed that this person wants PCI-E! AGP is like the dinosaur of the PC industry and people avoid it like the plague. I can't even give an AGP card away.

 

[basketcase]

Hey, I got that. I also read that he wants it for his wife as a backup PC that can play WoW. I just thought I would throw it out there.

"AGP is like the dinosaur of the PC industry and people avoid it like the plague." - And a socket 754 CPU isn't?

For WoW, my stuff works great. I know that AGP is dying, believe me, I know. But, as a second PC, they probably don't want to spend too much or plan on doing major upgrades. I mean, whateve CPU they may have or plan on having that is socket 754 would bottleneck anything better than a 7800 GS. Let's say they get a PCI-e mobo and a 8800, the CPU just won't keep up. The CPU and video card I got are a good match. I didn't specify a price, but believe me when I say I will let this stuff go for cheap.

ibleet, I am beginning to notice a trend of you being a complete forum jerk. Just because I posted my stuff, doesn't mean the guy needs to buy it. Just laying an option out there for him.

 

[RobertM525]

If it were cheap enough, I might be interested in the video card and one of those 512MB RAM sticks. But my ASUS AGP mobo works fine. I just wanted PCI-E so my wife wouldn't have to suffer my completely craptastic videocard and lack of options for upgrading it to a decent modern one. I figured that since a lot of people have upgraded out of Socket 754 that someone must have a S754 PCI-E mobo lying around they wanted to get rid of cheap.

 

[JaYp146]

OP, I have the board you need. PM to follow.

 

[Guest]

I have several 754 Mbs that may be of interest. Post message me for details.

hey badge
i managed to kill my k8n4-e and need a replacement do you have any?seems pci expressmobo's for s754 are rare as rocking horse droppings
let mwe know if you got something at richbrown_87@hotmail.com
cheers

 

[JDFan]

Like basketcase I've also got an old Socket 754 AGP MOBO (gigabyte K8 Triton series) with an Athlon 3200+ newcastle core CPU and a BFG 7800GS AGP card and a 1GB pc3200+ low latency Ram module (Patriot PEP1G3200LL) that I'd let go cheap - If anyone is interested send me an offer . (figure it is just sitting here collecting dust since I upgraded to a Phenom II X3 720 CPU and sapphire 5770 GPU back in January and I could use another 2GB DDR3 RAM kit to go with my system- It was all working fine at the time I upgraded but was getting a bit slow on performance for the new games coming out (though It played games like Oblivion fine for 2 years)

@ RobertM525 - IF you have an AGP system already and just need a better GPU I've got a BFG 7800GS AGP card that I could sell you for a good price if and Basketcase don't work something out - Let me know if you are interested (E-mail addy is listed in my profile page)