Basically, I have searched and come up with various reports saying that ATI finally supports the cards, and some reports saying that special drivers are still required. I want to end all this confusion with a straight up question to the experts.
I have been out of the loop for a while in the PC world, but I want to give my AGP system one last upgrade. I have an Asus A8V Deluxe, opteron 170 @ 2.5ghz, and 2gb of ram. I also have 2TB on RAID5 with a rocketraid 1740, based on 4 WD 640gb hds, and I back it up with 2tb Maxtor external firewire drive.
I run windows XP x64 as well. I have trouble with 4gb of ram even if I underclock it, but there are no s939 boards at any of the local computer stores, even the independently owned ones.
I want to know if the Powercolor HD 3850 or 3650 installs with current the native AMD/ATI drivers on xp x64. MY current card is a 7800GS, and while it works alright, I want to give my system one last upgrade, I think it deserves it, *IF* I can verify that these new AGP cards actually, oficially work.
IF they don't, (and *ONLY* if they do not), I might buy a good s939 PCI-E motherboard on ebay and upgrade. I am not ready to upgrade processor, memory, video card, cooling, AND motherboard right now, so it it isn't an option. Please just give me a yay or nay on these AGP cards as well as the AGP x1950 pro, since I can order that one on ebay as well for a good price.
I used to post here many times a day, but I have been out of the loop, so I really don't knnow for sure if these work. Like I said, after searching, the results come up with varying answers, many are months old, so they might not even apply right now.
So, anyone know?
PS. Glad to be back on the H.
I have been out of the loop for a while in the PC world, but I want to give my AGP system one last upgrade. I have an Asus A8V Deluxe, opteron 170 @ 2.5ghz, and 2gb of ram. I also have 2TB on RAID5 with a rocketraid 1740, based on 4 WD 640gb hds, and I back it up with 2tb Maxtor external firewire drive.
I run windows XP x64 as well. I have trouble with 4gb of ram even if I underclock it, but there are no s939 boards at any of the local computer stores, even the independently owned ones.
I want to know if the Powercolor HD 3850 or 3650 installs with current the native AMD/ATI drivers on xp x64. MY current card is a 7800GS, and while it works alright, I want to give my system one last upgrade, I think it deserves it, *IF* I can verify that these new AGP cards actually, oficially work.
IF they don't, (and *ONLY* if they do not), I might buy a good s939 PCI-E motherboard on ebay and upgrade. I am not ready to upgrade processor, memory, video card, cooling, AND motherboard right now, so it it isn't an option. Please just give me a yay or nay on these AGP cards as well as the AGP x1950 pro, since I can order that one on ebay as well for a good price.
I used to post here many times a day, but I have been out of the loop, so I really don't knnow for sure if these work. Like I said, after searching, the results come up with varying answers, many are months old, so they might not even apply right now.
So, anyone know?
PS. Glad to be back on the H.