ASRock K7S41GX

[HL2Fans_MoleX]

ok i have this new mother board and im having problemes using the intergrated video card. if any one got the same motherboard and figured this out please reply.

http://www.asrockamerica.com/Products/K7S41GX.htm

 

[duffers20]

What exactly are your problems with it? Some info on error messages etc would be a great help

 

[J_Tweedy]

I see that mobo you've got also has an AGP8x slot. I highly recommend even just buying a cheap graphics card man- onboard's tend to be crappers.

 

[Vorac1ous]

Exactly, on board graphics will never be able to run a video game. The feature is really only useful for 2D use.

 

[duffers20]

Yeh its also good if your gfx card dies too, something to fall back on to order a new one on the net

 

[HL2Fans_MoleX]

aight.... do you know any canadien website where i can get cheap Video Cards "9200, 9250 or 9600pro radion cards"?

 

[duffers20]

www.ncix.com
www.canadacomputer.com (Toronto)
www.tigerdirect.ca
www.adpmods.com (Windsor)
www.pccyber.ca (Ottawa)
www.pcsupreme.com (Montreal)
www.directpc.ca (Vancouver)
www.microbytes.com (Montreal)
www.compusmart.com (Nationwide)
www.atic.ca (Vancouver)
www.futureshop.ca (Nationwide)
www.a-computers.ca
www.bcom.ab.ca

Here is the list that has been compiled in the sticky thread in this forum. I had a look at some of the websites, and they seem to offer good prices for the 9600 card range. I also saw that on tigerdirect, you can get a 9800pro for $170 and its a perfectly good card to play most of the games out just now. The only game that it seems to struggle on is Doom3.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

the only good thing tiger direct sells is the 6800 ultra 512mb, they sell it cheaper than anywhere else.

 

[NikolaX]

512 mem is useless.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

At least right now, only doom 3 takes advantage of it. I'm sure an upgrade on the source engine will take advantage of it. Unreal 3 will also use 512. Can you say super high res textures? I'm so tired of all the low res environment textures and weapons in hl2, and i dont like the non-bumpmapped third person weapons.

 

[NikolaX]

doom3 has no use for 512 mb , look in benchmarks, there is no advantage in fps or in hi res.
only some maps on hl2 makes some 2% advantage.
when unreal3 goes retail, new gen of cards will take stand.
so it is no use to spend more cash on 512 card for now.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

Doom 3's ultra high setting is made for 512mb frame buffers.

 

[Ti133700N]

That's what I heard too. I'm not sure if you can see a big difference in real life though.

 

[duffers20]

I have seen benchmark results with 256mb cards and the same card but with 512mb and there is a very small (less than 5fps) increase in doom 3 ultra high setting, so its not worth getting a card with all that memory until it is really being used. Also there was no performance gain in other games from using a 512mb video card.

 

[Asus]

Doom 3's ultra high setting is made for 512mb frame buffers.

WooT it really flies!
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ok i have this new mother board and im having problemes using the intergrated video card.

What kind of problems?

 

[HL2Fans_MoleX]

i need help in using the integrated video card but its ok now.. im using my ati agp card now till i buy 9600 pro