Closed agp/pci-e dual motherboard

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Asrock 4coredual-vsta atx motherboard - has agp and pci-e slots for graphic cards, 4 pci slots, takes sata and pata drives, ddr and ddr2. Covers a lot of bases! Socket 775 so you can use single, HT, dual and quad core cpu's. Onboard network interface is proving a bit dodgy, I think the actual socket is the issue [loose connection] but the board works fine with a 3c905 [not included].

Will include a p4 3.2ghz HT processor [640].

£25 plus p/p [probably £6 in the uk using parcel2go].

Paypal gift, buyer pays fees.

 

[johnim]

nice board as i have 1 i got it for the ddr to ddr2 and agp to pci-e change over i used mine with my q6600 and now have a pd 945 in her good luck with your sale mate

here is some info

• LGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® XE / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D, supporting Quad Core Kentsfield processors
• VIA® PT880 Ultra Chipset
• Supports FSB1066/800/533MHz processors and H-T Technology
• Supports Dual Channel DDRII667 (DDRII x 2 DIMM slots) and DDR400 (DDR x 2 DIMM slots)
• Untied Overclocking : During Overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed AGP/PCIE/ PCI Buses
• 1 x PCI Express Graphics slot (@ x4 mode)
• 1 x AGP 8X slot
• Hybrid Booster - Safe Overclocking Technology
• 2 x SATA 1.5Gb/s connectors, support RAID 0, 1, JBOD functions
• HDMI_SPDIF header, providing SPDIF audio output to HDMI VGA card, allows the system to connect HDMI Digital TV/projector/LCD devices.
• 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)
• Supports all features in Windows® Vista™ Premium
• HD 8CH I/O: 4 ready-to-use USB 2.0 ports, HD 7.1 channel audio jacks

 

[ddni]

Hi what speed is the PCI-E slot?

 

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I believe it's 4x:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-VSTA

Ah - see johnim's post - same info.

 

[imaga_050]

Hi what speed is the PCI-E slot?

hehe i was just about to post about 4x too , great m/b tho. even overclocked my e2200 about 140% on this board. Works best with DDR2 mem IMO.

The PCIE speed isn't that relevant since if you use a good PCIE card you still about the same speed as the fastest AGP card on the market the HD3850. From what i read at least.

 

[ShambleS1980]

Hi what speed is the PCI-E slot?

hehe i was just about to post about 4x too , great m/b tho. even overclocked my e2200 about 140% on this board. Works best with DDR2 mem IMO.

The PCIE speed isn't that relevant since if you use a good PCIE card you still about the same speed as the fastest AGP card on the market the HD3850. From what i read at least.

athe agp 3850 is a really good card and although not as good as the later pci-e gfx cards its easily comparable to nvidia 8800 or similar and as such is still a really good card.
The AGP slot iotself was never fully exploited to its full potential and its a shame every one moved over to purley pci-e boards as theres defunatly still room to get better gfx via agp. Unfortunatly the demand for such cards will be minimal at best so the 3850 agp will probably be the agp's swan song card. But its definatly able to run the newer games, and combine it with a Q6600 I doubt you will find a game you cant run comfortably If at slightly lower resolutions or trading off Antialiazing for the res.

 

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Cancelling this, no longer for sale sorry. Was selling originally because my video capture card seemed to be incompatible but [woot] used a driver cleaner and now it works. Two days to get a card to work... lucky I'm not in IT support .