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Originally Posted by Stev1
Thanks for the info guys, this is the motherboard i am using at the moment, A7N8X-E Deluxe Socket A, Can anyone tell me if this will take a PCi Express video card, as i like the look of the NVidia 8600GTs.
My system which i Built PC myself is:-
AMD Sempron 3000 MMX, 2.0 ghz Processor
Memory is 1024, "upgradinging to 2 - 3 Gig"
Sound Blaster Live 24-bit
Geforce FX5700 with the latest Driver 169.21
this is working ok with SH3 and my other games i.e.
Doom 3, and the Medal of Honor Series
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Steve - as I indicated above; my older PC has an Asus A7N8X-X motherboard in it. Same series as yours, but, mine has the lower end audio and doesn't support dual channel memory mode. Great boards if you know what RAM they like !
Since it takes an AGP card I'd look at the (1) ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, (2) Nvidia 7600 GT, (3) Nvidia 7600 GS. An alternative to (3) would be the ATI Radeon X1650PRO. These will all run between $90 to $115. While I favor Nvidia based cards, the Radeon HD 2600 XT is a compelling buy and it will give you some future as its DirectX10 ready. I've heard the official ATI drivers are problematic for it - this will improve with future driver releases. In the meantime, the modified Omega drivers work just fine from what I read. Also, Nvidia does not make an AGP version of the 8600 GT, however the "compelling" Radeon HD 2600 XT gives comparable performance to the 8600 GT - at least in the PCI Express versions.