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Old 03-14-07, 03:12 AM   #8
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Asrocks makes a great MB that can run both AGP cards and PCI-E cards. With no performance loss!!

Great solution for those who want to upgrade their CPU and MB, but wants to wait with the graphics card.
Yup. It's called ASRock 4COREDUAL-VSTA. Got one last week.
actually there is a performance loss and a MAJOR one, your pci express slot will only run at 4x while regular pcie slots run at x16 so your slot will be bottlenecking your video card big time

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157097

go with that 939 and u can get a fx60 for under 250$ these days but its still ddr , i recommened waiting a few more months for amds quadcore (intel quads suck compared to amd quads)
No, there isn`t any performance loss, not acording to Legit review. I also have Asrock Dual VSTA 775 (almoust the same, as 4CORE VSTA), and I get the same results with X800GTO2 as my friend, who has the same CPU (pentium d 805 @ 3.8ghz) and gfx card, but has an asus mb with 16x pci-e.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/377/14/

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So what did we see during our tests? Other than 3DMark our 7900GTX performed nearly the same on both boards despite the ASRock only having a 4x PCI-E slot. It?s extremely doubtful that you?d be able to tell what motherboard was being used if you couldn?t peek inside the case.
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Well I have the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2, and theres no loss there.
In the link you sent a guy is searching for the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2, for the same reason. Looks the Asrock did a poor job on the new MB
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