Is this motherboard any good? New question*
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Is this motherboard any good? New question*
I know this should be posted in the computer tech. section, but I need some quick responses as I would like to get it tonight.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813185074
I need it for my old computer, specs are:
AMD athalon XP processor
512mb memory
120g hard drive
ATI graphics card (not sure of specs)
Old board was an albatron Nforce 2 series board.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813185074
I need it for my old computer, specs are:
AMD athalon XP processor
512mb memory
120g hard drive
ATI graphics card (not sure of specs)
Old board was an albatron Nforce 2 series board.
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RE: Is this motherboard any good?
Well as stated, I have a seperate graphics card, I know it would not be worth crap for gaming in its own form, lol. I am looking for something to get this computer going as my computer, so it will be a secondary computer but primarily a gaming computer. Nothing like 1st person shooters though.
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RE: Is this motherboard any good?
This is what my brother said. Anyone have any suggestions based on this info?
No. I did look for some boards a while ago and nobody has anything that is worth buying new. Search for Asus or DFI motherboards on Ebay. Socket A (462) that supports 400FSB AMD Athlon Barton CPU's. It should have a nForce 2 ultra chipset.
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#8
04-01-2008, 12:16 AM
RE: Is this motherboard any good?
well if you want it to be a gaming rig and ur getting an AGP mobo ur basically shooting urself in the foot to begin with.
with what you have ur really not gonna be able to build a good gaming rig. a good desktop yes. gaming rig no.
it has a max memory of 2 gigs. which isn't that much for gaming rig. 2gb is a minimum to run games at decent frame rates. also AGP graphics cards suck. you could get a low end pci x16 mobo and graphics card and still perform better than a mid-high end AGP setup. mainly due to speed of the connection. 4x to 16x u do the math.
with what you have ur really not gonna be able to build a good gaming rig. a good desktop yes. gaming rig no.
it has a max memory of 2 gigs. which isn't that much for gaming rig. 2gb is a minimum to run games at decent frame rates. also AGP graphics cards suck. you could get a low end pci x16 mobo and graphics card and still perform better than a mid-high end AGP setup. mainly due to speed of the connection. 4x to 16x u do the math.
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04-01-2008, 01:50 AM
RE: Is this motherboard any good?
Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, DFI all are decent mobos. I'm preferential to Asus and Gigabyte myself (have a 7 year old Socket A desktop with a Gigabyte mobo that ran nearly constantly until I picked up an XPS at the pawn shop over Christmas bread). It doesn't have to be an Nforce chipset, the Gigabyte I had wasn't. Make sure it supports AGP 8x and 2GB of ram (with the specs of your system there is no point going with more than that, heck 1GB might be enough, CPU and video card are going to be your bottlenecks) Keep in mind it's still going to be a slow system by today's standards either way. Depending on the gaming you want to do you may be better off saving up and building a new computer.
