Asrock 775Dual-VSTA.htm

[djgandy]

http://www.asrock.com/PRODUCT/775Dual-VSTA.htm

Novatech should stock this ;)

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/377/1/
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2814

Yes AGP has plenty of life in it, i know some people won't have that. This was tested with a 7900GTX, a top end card in PCI-E 4x (less than half AGP 8x bandwidth).
If you are buying this board you don't buy them cards anyway, so this board will last you a good 3 years if you want it to :wink: and will make the cheapest Core2Duo upgrade there can be 8)

[Nox]

I was looking at that over the weekend! and then checked novatechs website - didn't get further as I saw how much raptor 150's have come down to!

Nox

[Nox]

Maybe these forums should have a product suggestion section.

Nox

[djgandy]

I think it's a perfect cheap board. The sort of thing novatech would put in their range and bundles ;)

[Nox]

good for upgrades too - run ddr on an allendale/conroe sounds good to me!

Nox

[Taxation]

so does that mean that you can run a set of ddr and a set of ddr2 memory, or would the chipset chose what memory to use according to what processor you have installed

[Nox]

No idea about at the same time, but unlikely.

Nox

[Taxation]

surely if novatech did sell these then there would be people buying them and getting confused about which memory to put in

[djgandy]

You can put either in. You can't use both at the same time though.
It would say that in the product description anyway ;)

[Taxation]

how many people read manuals anyway :roll:

[djgandy]

I meant in the novatech description. You must have read something to know it can run ddr1 and ddr2...Anyway people building systems should question these things before buying. I can't really see someone buying 2gig of DDR and 2gig of DDR2. Might aswell argue someone buying a asus board could buy the wrong memory.

[Chewie]

Well here's something for the AGP restricted folks, if they read this. The Gainward 7800GS 512mb silent that novatech sells, apparently, this particular model of 7800, is in fact a 7900gtx in AGP format.

But apparently there's only 1500 of em worldwide. And it looks like novatech has 13 of em.

But need to check, as theres a 7800GS that has just 20 pipes, and the 7800GS that has 24 pipes. Found it at Toms, when they did an article yesterday/today, was last in the line up of PCI-e/AGP cards for price ranges.

I know OC have some of both types (which is where i got the 1500 info from, so could be more could be less) but they don't list stock levels like Novatech do.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/09/2 ... _money_uk/ (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/09/26/the_best_gaming_video_cards_for_the_money_uk/)

[jimmeh]

the board is a great idea.

unless you want todo anythign with the cpu, or require any kind of extra functionality :p

you know im right. xD

[djgandy]

You'll have trouble tweaking your cpu at all if you have no mobo, ram, or gfx card.

You know i'm right.

Barton -> Core2 upgrade cost £200, (would have been 170 if i got the E6300)

You know i'm right :)