anyone have this mobo?

[mastag]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081 if anyone has this, are you happy with it? i am interested in it because it has a great price and supports pci and agp so i do not have to upgrade my radeon 9800. anyone have any comments on it?

 

[sinkoman]

No, don't get it.

General rule of thumb. Stay AWAY from AGP/PCIE dual slot motherboards.

Jack of all trades, king of none.

Except this jack sucks donkey penis

 

[mastag]

well should i just stick with agp for now or just suck it up and get a job(im 15) and upgrade everything to pci express? cuz all the new graphics cards are pci express.

 

[sinkoman]

Upgrade for sure.

AGP is dead. Completely. About a year ago I might have said "wait a while to see if PCIE stays, or ends up trash tech", but it's pretty official now.

PCIE is here to stay. AGP is dead.

Besides, that 9800 should still last you mabey a year

If it's a 9800 pro that is.

 

[mastag]

it is a 128 sapphire radeon 9800 pro. the problem is not my graphics card. its my cpu. pentium 2.00 ghz is NOT cutting it in fear and far cry. btw nice sig.

 

[giant384]

how much ram did you have and what amd cpu are you going to get?

 

[mastag]

i wanna get a socket 939 amd athlon 3500+. um i ran dxdiag and it said i had 640mb of ram. my current mobo is socket 478

 

[bosox188]

I have that motherboard and it works fine for me. I got it because I needed to upgrade from my old P4 2.2ghz and got the A64 I have now. I also wanted to have PCI-E for when I upgrade my videocard but I couldn't at the time so I found that mobo. I still have my 9800 pro in it and it's working fine, I have had no problems with it. I have yet to use that PCI-E slot though.

 

[mastag]

it got decent reviews on newegg. but im just wondering if i should just upgrade to a faster agp motherboard and wait about a year. i should have more money then.

 

[hneaz]

its gd if u are saving up to buy a pci-express card.

No, don't get it.

General rule of thumb. Stay AWAY from AGP/PCIE dual slot motherboards.

Jack of all trades, king of none.

Except this jack sucks donkey penis

oh yeah, then why did over 800 ppl reviewed this product and get 4 stars?

 

[Asus]

Previous AGP/PCI-Express boards have all been hack jobs with terrible performance. Albatron had one and a few others.

That ULI chipset is the first and only good combo AGP/PCI-Express. The AGP slot on that board performs better than the PCI-Express part which is funny. It does the job well for someone straddling their upgrades.

If it was me, I would definitely buy new GFX card and board with PCI-Express.
Anandtech has a review on that ULI chipset I believe.
Edit:ULi M1695

 

[mastag]

so it is a really good buy at 66 dollars. thank you asus for providing a full review with benchmarks and comparisons.