What's a good Mainboard that supports AGP 4X?

[dalford]

Can some of you gurus suggest a good board (preferably with ATA66 as well) that will take my P3/500 and supports AGP 4X for my G400 32Mb Non-MAX card?

My present boards is AGP 2X, but I'm a speed freak......

Dave,
Darwin, Australia.

[el_bruto]

not exist....yet

[RoGuE]

There are no motherboards available that support AGP4x (yet). The second generation Athlon boards, and the Intel i820 (Camino) boards will.

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[Jammrock]

September 27th is when the Camino (i820) motherboards will be released. I think both ASUS and Abit plan on releasing a boards that day. Camino will support AGP 4x (fast-write mode too), 133 MHz fsb, RAMBUS RAM, SDRAM and/or DDR RAM (depending on what version of the board you buy), the new Coppermine PIII core, IEEE 1394 (firewire), and so on and so forth.

Jammrock

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My computer can play all of my games well...except TA: Kingdoms, which I think you need a Kray to play.

[IceStorm]

Intel will not support FireWire on their motherboards. They may support USB 2.0, but since FireWire is a direct competitor to their standard, USB, they aren't implementing FireWire support on their chipsets.



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Tertiary System: DFI G568IPC Intel 430HX chipset, P200MMX, 96MB of non-parity RAM, Millennium II, 3Com 3C900, SoundBlaster 16 MCD, Fujitsu 3.5GB HD, WD 1.2GB HD, Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card, Toshiba 6x DVD-ROM, OS of the week

All specs subject to change.

[Zypher]

Camino will not support DDR-sdram. I sure as hell wish it would Other comapnies had to breath fire for months just to get them to "support" PC133.

DDR will be 'equiv2 PC266 or better. And in terms of lower end computer use (sorry, we all fall into that one, regardless of what apps you run, using $20k+ computers or whatever at work does NOT count) DDR kicks rambus ass.

Rambus has lots bandwidth, but SUCKS at latency. DDR can get to be close to half the cpu speed (and read it all in single digit clocks) imagine 256mb of stuff that is more like the half speed L2 than older sdram. If intel was not so intwined $$$ into rambus, they'd use a nice wide (2 or 4 dimms, 128 or 256bit) memory bus with DDR. Would be cheaper than rambus is going for now.

So far benching camino has shown rambus will be slower than _PC100_ for winblows.

[mynx]

IEEE-1394 (called Firewire by apple) is a standard format for sending digital information at very high speeds. It is not a competing format. It is designed to transmit video between devices. It is already standard equiptment on high end camcorders. Each company may call it something different, but it's the same port. For any company to exclude it is to leave themselves out of the new technology race.
USB runs at 12mbs, IEEE-1394 is scaleable and currently runs at 400mbs, with plans to double it. It was meant to compete with SCSI.

[Ron]

Re 1394 support; note that the ASUS P3B has one variant that has the support built in. Firewire is not a competitor to USB, that would imply similarity which is very little in this case.

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[Pertti]

Maybe these will work in AGP 4x
http://www.cizgi.com.tr/urunler/anakart/hop_p3cseri.htm

Pertti

[Wombat]

Intel has said that they won't support Firewire in any of their chipsets. I suppose someone could provide a 3rd party solution, though.
Intel is developing support for USB 2.0, which supposedly has a transfer rate of up to 80M/s,
Last I heard, the next wave of Athlon boards will have Firewire support.

[GD]

Hi,

I think most SCSI adapters manufacturers (mainly Adaptec) produce IEEE 1394 cards. I also think that their price is relatively low (when compared to SCSI ones).

[DentyCracker]

Anyone noticed how 128MB of PC100 SDRAM which cost $95 on June 14 now costs $240

[SteveC]

Yeah, but the price of RAM has levelled out. You'll see it dropping in a few weeks. I doubt if as low as it was before, but a more sensible amount like it was3 months or so ago.

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[Jammrock]

Sorry, my bad. It is AMD that will support DDR RAM. As for Firewire, I saw the ASUS board with firewire and I guess I forgot what 2 + 2 equals. The ASUS board uses TI's new single chip Firewire solution.

I have also noticed that the i820 chipset supports the new AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) 1.0 thingy. Although I may be wrong (new technology does this to me) is it a smaller, simplified riser that OEM's can use to put low cost sound card/modems into computers. I guess they will be releasing all-in-one audio/modems for the AMR. I could be wrong, this is just what I pulled from glancing through Intel's info on AMR.

Sounds like and interesting concept, but I doubt that many hardcore computer geeks will use it. High end 3D audio cards need the PCI bandwidth (AMR uses only the minimum number of pins for basic audio). As for the modem, AMR will probably olny support Winmodems. So that counts that out, because hardcore's mostly use hardware modems or cable/ADSL modems which connect to your computer via the Ethernet card.

Joy, I get to learn something new today

Jammrock

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My computer can play all of my games well...except TA: Kingdoms, which I think you need a Kray to play.

[Fleabus]

Dalford:
This URL will give you a sneak peek at what Asus will soon release in its new Camino P3C boards (AGPx4; 133MHz FSBus; ATA-66 and RIMM slot (RAMBUS) support).

http://www.cizgi.com.tr/urunler/anakart/p3cseri.htm

BTW, AFAIK the G400 won't "do" AGPx4. All Matrox says is that you can mount and use them in AGPx4 capable slots. I don't think it matters though as by the time there is anything out there that needs AGPx4, the G400 would be a very old and passe chip. I don't know of anything that needs AGPx2 today.

Happy trails,




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