Mobos and ide, agp

[robmazco]

Well probably jumping into a new mob and cpu soon.
Seems to me, very limited in boards with IDE connectors and AGP slots.
My ide HDDs and my agp vid card are all up to snuff.
Anyone have good leads on mobo/cpu combos or am I gonna have to spend a ton o' $$ to get a new system up and running?
Just lousy that some of my equipment is still perfect yet now seemingly obsolete.

 

[kmcferrin]

You are most likely going to need new hardware. I looked high and low, and the only AGP motherboard I could:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157115

On the bright side, it's cheap and will take your older and newer memory. It even supports some of the Core 2 Quads. Asrock made a name for themselves in the early days as having good transitional boards.

The down side is that it's old, based on old technology, and an old chipset. It won't be nearly as fast as something totally new, and if you jumped into this board you would just be prolonging the inevitable. While it supports DDR and DDR2 memory, DDR3 is now the emerging standard.

I would probably just move to something newer altogether.

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[kjv1611]

I second kmcferrin on moving to something new altogether. PCI Express 16x/PCI Express 2.0 is not even comparable to AGP. The power and throughput available just flat blows AGP out of the water.

That plus the fact that you can get a pretty nice PCI Express video card for $50 to $100 also should make it not quite as painful. If you are looking for a "mid range" to "low range" card, then $50 will get you by easily.

The 8600GT, by nVidia, which I have at home right now, is quite a little graphics card. It'll handle anything I've ever wanted to throw at it, so long as I didn't demand the absolute highest settings (video game wise). Otherwise, it performs well for everything else. And even that's already dated technology!

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[Grenage]

Speed aside, it will be much more cost effective for you to purchase a 'bare bones' system. With onboard sound and graphics, you can keep your costs down and get a pretty reasonable machine.

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[kjv1611]

True... what Grenage said, unless you intend to keep gaming. I'm assuming you've been gaming some to have a higher end graphics card to begin with. ;0p

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[Grenage]

Yup, you can of course replace onboard graphics as per Steve's fine suggestion. If you really want to keep the IDE drives, you 'can' get ATA to SATA adapters.


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[kmcferrin]

You can also get IDE/ATA add-in boards for pretty cheap. Of course, IDE drives are slower and smaller, so you might just opt for a SATA disk instead.

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[kjv1611]

robmazco,

Give us an idea as to what you do/want to do with your PC, and what sort of budget you're looking at, and I'm sure you can get a boatload of suggestions!

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[robmazco]

well went midrange with everything. also went with sata drive, pci-e vid card. its gonna be a home pc, moderate gaming, so it all should suffice for the next 3-6 years.

I spose ive been falling behind the times with my ide and agp, still saddens me to get rid of the ide/agp.
so off we go to the future...and beyond!!!
thanks for all the info

 

[wahnula]

Don't be sad, going forward the support for AGP will falter, there will be no drivers available and community support will also dwindle. I remember a few years ago wanting to keep NT 4.0 as my server OS, only to find that no new hardware supported it. I migrated to SBS and am very happy with it, lots of new & improved features, and never looked back. Best of luck to you.

Tony

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