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The older GeForce board will not work in an 8x AGP slot. Bob Meyer bought a new GeForce 8X AGP video card from me last week and he was lucky. See, the newer video boards will work in the older AGP slots on the older motherboards but not the other way around. The newer 8X AGP ports have an extra separator in the slot that your older video card does not have. So you would need a new video board for the newer motherboards with 8X AGP ports.<BR>
The onboard sound works fantastic with ALSA installed, and this is a standard ATX motherboard so specifically it has onboard, Sound, GamePort, 2 serial, 1 parallel, 2 USB and PS/2 keyboard and mouse. It has 5 PCI slots and NO ISA slots. None of the newer boards have ISA slots anymore either. So, if you have any ISA cards, they would have to be replaced as well. So really all you would need is a new video board and ethernet card. 10/100 PCI NIC's are $15.00 and we have the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 64MB 8X AGP w/TV out video board for $59.00 of the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 64MB 8X AGP DDR w/TV out video board for $79.00. I am in Williamsville and by appointment only. If you want, call me tomorrow at 553-8525. Thanks<BR>
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 21:06, David Mangani wrote:
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<FONT SIZE="3"><I>Thanks for the advice. I have an older geforce 2 board, that I plan to use at least for now. I also have an almost new 20 gig 7200 rpm hdd I plan to reuse. As for sound, if the on board sound is good and it is supported, I'll save the slot for something else. Does the mainboard you mention have on board usb and or ethernet? Or should I use separate cards for those functions as Kevin suggested.<BR>
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Thx again,<BR>
Dave.<BR>
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P.S. Where is your store? I'm in Clarence. Is it far for me?<BR>
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Cyber Source wrote:
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You will probably have a hard time finding a motherboard today without onboard sound but that's ok, if you install ALSA, they rock! Or, if you want to reuse your SBLive, you could just disable the onboard sound in the BIOS.<BR>
I sell Gigabyte motherboards for AMD cpu's <BR>
Gigabyte GA-7VA 8xAGP motherboard $109.00<BR>
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On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 18:14, David Mangani wrote: </FONT>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3">I'm considering doing a rebuild on my box. I intend to go with AMD
again. ( using a k6-2 now ) I want something that WILL work good with
Linux. I don't need every bell and whistle but would like ethernet, USB
2.0 would be nice, sound can be there or not. I have a good SB live
card. Definately don't want on board video. Anyone have a suggestion on
a good board that won't break the bank. Would also like a newer board
that supports 333 or even 400mhz ddr. Once I decide on a main board I'll
see how much CPU I can afford. LOL
TIA
Dave</FONT></PRE>
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