I'm still slugging it out with 478pin p4 agp technology.
Can anyone tell me what the fastest agp board is, since I'm not in the
market to jump to pci-e yet...
I have 4gbs of ocz platinum pc3200 ram and an ATI x850xt platinum
video...thanks very much.

"Luvrsmel" <> wrote in message news:cS%Tk.20407$...
> I'm still slugging it out with 478pin p4 agp technology.
> Can anyone tell me what the fastest agp board is, since I'm not in the
> market to jump to pci-e yet...
> I have 4gbs of ocz platinum pc3200 ram and an ATI x850xt platinum
> video...thanks very much.

ATI makes a 3850 AGP. That's the fastest. But at anything over
1024x768 resolution in most newer games, you'll be severely CPU
limited with any S478 P4.

Luvrsmel wrote:
> I'm still slugging it out with 478pin p4 agp technology.
> Can anyone tell me what the fastest agp board is, since I'm not in the
> market to jump to pci-e yet...
> I have 4gbs of ocz platinum pc3200 ram and an ATI x850xt platinum
> video...thanks very much.
>

I use an Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 motherboard, as it supports
AGP video cards, and accepts Core2 processors. But it is
hardly a full featured motherboard. It has two DDR slots and
two DDR2 slots for memory (use only one type at a time).
I simply got 2x1GB of DDR2 for it, and didn't bother reusing
my existing 2x512MB of DDR. DDR2 is dirt cheap, compared to
the price I paid for the other memory. One thing I've found
about this board, is memory bandwidth is on the low end of
the scale.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...2%20R2.0&s=775

So that is a mechanism to reuse an AGP video card, if that
is what you're looking for. The processor socket is LGA775
on that one, and allows upgrading to faster Core2 processors.
I use an E4700 processor with it, but it turns out the
board needs to be hacked to overclock it (I've run the processor
at 3.46GHz, by boosting Vcore with a soldering iron). So
using an FSB1066 processor is probably the best you can do
if you don't own a soldering iron. For example, the E7300
is probably relatively cheap ($120), compared to some of the other
entries.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/cpu.asp?Mod...2%20R2.0&s=775

These are my results from testing yesterday. (The hyphens are
to try to preserve the formatting, when archived in Google.)
The DDR2-533 memory is running 3-3-3-12 1T.

-------------------------------------------------------SuperPI Memtest 1.65
-------------------------------------------------------1M (sec) Bandwidth
-------------------------------------------------------lower is (MB/sec)
------------------------------------------------------- better

200 x 13 = 2.60GHz, FSB800, DDR2-533, Single channel 24.05 2203
(stock) Dual channel 22.87 2668

266 x 10 = 2.66GHz, FSB1066, DDR2-533, Single channel 23.47 ----
Dual channel 22.52 ----

266 x 13 = 3.46GHz, FSB1066, DDR2-533, Single channel 19.37 2419
Dual channel 18.42 3305

For comparison, you can test SuperPI and calculate 1 million digits
of PI and compare your current time. On my 3200+ and P4 3.1GHz
systems, I'd get about 45 to 50 seconds for 1 million digits.
SuperPI runs on one core of a processor.

http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/
http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/super_pi_mod-1.5.zip

I think the current record for 1 million digits, is below 8 seconds,
so I have a ways to go yet.

HTH,
Paul