Mobo choice?
15 November 2004, 12:05 AM
#1
Mobo choice?
Main machine has XP2400 chip on K7S5A board, also have spare Duron 1200 that will not fit in old machine running K23D 350.
2 choices... - new board for main machine - ideally AGPX8 (FX5200 Pers Cinema graphics card), on board LAN(Home network), Firewire (Digital video camera), SATA (for future HD upgrade) DDR400 (already got 512 MB of Pc3200 RAM) - are any able to take socket A and new 64bit chips?
2nd choice - el-cheapo board to allow use of duron chip in old machine, & wait for new technology 64 bit stuff to become established & get next gen kit?
Any recommendations?
Cheers
Mick
2 choices... - new board for main machine - ideally AGPX8 (FX5200 Pers Cinema graphics card), on board LAN(Home network), Firewire (Digital video camera), SATA (for future HD upgrade) DDR400 (already got 512 MB of Pc3200 RAM) - are any able to take socket A and new 64bit chips?
2nd choice - el-cheapo board to allow use of duron chip in old machine, & wait for new technology 64 bit stuff to become established & get next gen kit?
Any recommendations?
Cheers
Mick
15 November 2004, 07:19 AM
#2
No, you have to go for socket A or 64-bit. And 64-bit comes in two flavours (three actually, but you can ignore socket 940): socket 754 and socket 939. The difference is essentially that 939 is better but rather pricier.
64-bit is established in hardware, but there is only a beta version of Windows XP to run on it (plus Linux of course) and no sign of an official Windows before late next year. Obviously 32-Windows runs, but it doesn't take advantage of the 64-bit bus. Good socket A boards meantime can be had for about £70, so that might be a better route - but for the main machine, as a tranquilised snail in a treadmill is faster (and more reliable) than the ECS board. Personally I'm waiting for nForce4 and the new ATI chipset to come out becaue I want PCIe and socket 939.
M
64-bit is established in hardware, but there is only a beta version of Windows XP to run on it (plus Linux of course) and no sign of an official Windows before late next year. Obviously 32-Windows runs, but it doesn't take advantage of the 64-bit bus. Good socket A boards meantime can be had for about £70, so that might be a better route - but for the main machine, as a tranquilised snail in a treadmill is faster (and more reliable) than the ECS board. Personally I'm waiting for nForce4 and the new ATI chipset to come out becaue I want PCIe and socket 939.
M
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