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#11
22nd Jul 2008, 05:39
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| Can i swap old motherboard for one with a PCIE Quote:
I was going with the what thingie2 said in his first post, when he said he thought your CPU was a socket 754, and never even thought about what CPU you actually had. Socket A (462) motherboards would never had had PCI Express because the rest of the components are not fast enough to meet the speed of PCI-E. They did have AGP x8 which is going to be the best you can do. Try and find a AGP x8 graphics card, or your only other option will be to completely upgrade the motherboard and processor.
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22nd Jul 2008, 21:36
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| Can i swap old motherboard for one with a PCIE Anything you do now is going to be a waste of money. If you buy a PCI-E card at least you'll have it for the future..AGP not so much. I recommend just putting together a new one if you can.
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23rd Jul 2008, 00:49
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| Can i swap old motherboard for one with a PCIE Well i remember when i got my current system the new motherboards came along almost straight after i bought it. That really peeded me off because they was no chance of me beneifiting from upgrades and that was back then. So i do not want to make that mistake again. Anything i buy in the next year better be dam future proofed. I dont plan on blowing money again to find out there is whole new generation of components i will never be able to use, like bloody PCIE. |
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23rd Jul 2008, 20:28
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| Can i swap old motherboard for one with a PCIE I know that all too well - Frankenstein'd a old Dell Dimension P4 into a gaming rig right before Core 2. If you're going to buy it in the next year, wait for 1266 or whatever the hell the Nehalem socket is. PCI-E'll be going for a while but everything else (DDR2, 775, maybe even PCI if we're lucky) is going out the window pretty soon.
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24th Jul 2008, 07:12
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| Can i swap old motherboard for one with a PCIE Thanks for the tip. Do you think PC HDMI with true HD audio will be available by then??? |
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24th Jul 2008, 16:41
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| Can i swap old motherboard for one with a PCIE HDMI is just DVI carrying audio over the cable. There's no difference between DVI with some speakers and HDMI to a HDTV. You can already get both video cards and sound cards that convert to HDMI, as well as (of course) adapters, and with a good set of speakers and a nice sound card you're golden. I can't think of any reason you'd want HDMI in the first place, though, as who wants to have nice audio and then feed it into a crappy HDTV speaker set?
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