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Angel-Ronin
11-02-07, 18:48
What mother board should i buy?

I want a mother board that is :

*Core 2 duo compatible
*Has four channels for ram
*At least one AGP slot, but will allow me to put in another SLI capable card.

Pls help, cuz im a noob in need! :)

mac124
11-02-07, 20:59
As far as i know the motherboard below is likely to be the only conroe / agp motherboard available.

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards/Socket+775+%28Intel%29/+Asrock+775DUAL-VSTA+Socket+775?productId=23695

Angel-Ronin
11-02-07, 21:00
Cheers man your a legend!!!!

mac124
11-02-07, 21:01
LOL been called alot of things don't think i have been called a legend before, but your welcome. :D

Cheule
11-02-07, 21:27
It has four ram slots, but two are for DDR and the other two are for DDR2, they cannot be used together.

Anonymous
11-02-07, 21:28
Also, the pci-e is actually 4x instead of 16x, due to its via chipset.

Cheule
12-02-07, 05:59
[quote:1d8d7871fa=\"blaineoliver\"]Also, the pci-e is actually 4x instead of 16x, due to its via chipset.[/quote:1d8d7871fa]

Indeed, that was the main reason I was put off buying it. I don't understand why they've done that, I bought an ASRock Dual-SATA2 939 board at the end of 2005 and it's a great hybrid board, it even has 16xPCI-e.

Angel-Ronin
12-02-07, 13:06
cool, it kinda sucks cuz i just bought the 7800gsoc and i dont want to get rid of it but i also want to engage my sli and up grade my processor and theredoent seem to be any way of doin that.

Thanks for all your help lads.

Biodoid
12-02-07, 13:19
you can't sli agp can you? I thought it was only pci-e that was sli