Do any new boards have both AGP and PCI-E slots?

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I recently bought an AGP video card for my aging mobo a few weeks back. However, the mobo has since died, and instead of paying money to buy another NFORCE 2 board, I am deciding to upgrade to the modern age. I want a board that has PCI-E for future video cards, but still have an AGP slot so I can use my recent video card purchase. It is a refurb from ATI so I don't think I can exchange it for a PCI-e version.

What options do I have?

Thanks.
 
I believe this is the favorite, but the main problem is that you're limited with going socket 939 or 754. So no AM2/Conroe if you're looking for the AGP/PCI-E combo.
 
There are some boards with both TRUE agp and pci-e support, but none of them are for your socket A platform. In fact, there are no pci-e chipsets at all for socket A, regardless of agp support. A few of the boards that exist are:


this one for socket 939
this one for LGA775
 
Thank you everyone.

And btw, I'm not planning on staying with Socket A - planning on A64 or A64 X2.

Are there any true AM2 boards with AGP and PCI-E?
 
Dual SATA2 board with the AM2 riser card might be the closest you get. At least that's all I've seen.
 
There a a few boards with both AGP and PCI-E, but you'd definitly have to upgrade your CPU and maybe your RAM too, depending on which path you take.

You want to take a look at the ASrock boards (the ones that have "Dual" in the product name). I believe they make version for Socket 939 and LGA775.

AMD:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081

Intel:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157092

Other brands also advertise AGP + PCI-E, but they usually have some sort of compromise (like the AGP can only run at 2x, or the PCI-E can only run at 4x, or incompatibility issues). Be wary of mobos with slots like AGPro, XGP, AGR, etc.

I personally don't have a Dual board (I was considering to get one, as I am still on Socket A myself), so maybe others can chime in and give some feedback or additional info.
 
Thanks. Would my current PC3200 RAM be compatible with the new boards and A64 processors? I would just be using it until I can afford something better.
 
Also what is the name of the adapter for AM2 compatibility on the ASROCK board? I can't seem to find it on newegg.
 
You're looking for this product (AM2CPU Board).. Available @ NewEgg here - ~$32.

[edit] But if I were you (and $ is an issue) and wanted to go S462 -> S939/AM2, I'd just sell off whatever parts would be un-needed, and go straight to DDR2/AM2/PCI-E..AGP is frankly a lame horse put out to pasture, but people still don't want to put it out of it's misery (ie: move on :D )..DDR1 is on it's way out.. And while apparently a good performer (from the VERY limited reviews I''ve seen), the upgrade socket board adds another expense and potential point of failure You could put the ~$40 (after shipping/possible taxes) saved from the upgrade board towards a better PSU, or offset a bit of the costs in transitioning to the new standards (ie: DDR2 still being a bit more expensive than DDR1, but coming down - DDR1 only bound to go up at this point IMO).
 
I think an AGP board will suffice for now.

I wouldn't mess around with dual boards.

If PCI-E was that important to you, you would sell your AGP card and get whatever PCI-E you can afford for now.
 
cyks said:
I think an AGP board will suffice for now.

I wouldn't mess around with dual boards.

If PCI-E was that important to you, you would sell your AGP card and get whatever PCI-E you can afford for now.
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I would normally agree with not messing around with dual boards, but that board is a good performer, a decent OCer, has the best upgrade path, AND is cheaper than most NF3 AGP based motherboards.
 
What does dual board mean?


And can I use DDR3200 with AM2 boards that specify DDR800?
 
Bad Seed said:
And can I use DDR3200 with AM2 boards that specify DDR800?
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The Asrock board is natively 939, which means that the board accepts DDR400 RAM. If you install that little card to add support for AM2, it's got four DDR2-800 slots on the card.

So, if you're running a 939 processor in it, you'll need DDR-400 RAM, however if you're running an AM2 processor in the add-in card, you'll need DDR2-800 RAM.
 
quadnad said:
So, if you're running a 939 processor in it, you'll need DDR-400 RAM, however if you're running an AM2 processor in the add-in card, you'll need DDR2-800 RAM.
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In addition with the AM2 processor and add-in card, not only will you need DDR2 RAM, you'll need to "remove" your DDR memory on the motherboard if present after upgrading from s939 to AM2 procs.

Just adding this in the event it wasn't clear.
 
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