Thanks for the information guys.

My aim is to replace the existing motherboard in an early-2000s gaming PC. I currently have an ECS board with LGA 775, AGP and DDR400 but it's horrible (no fan control or adjustable vcore). An additional goal is to overclock a P4 to at least 4 GHz. Is there a noticeable performance difference …

WallpaperDesigner: I would say, that ASRock ConRoe865PE is best motherboard with DDR1 and AGP connector, but be prepared for higher prices (and I mean it, I wanted to bought that board too, but was beaten by some crazy guy, who pay 121€ for it in bidding war with me). It looks like 775, AGP and …

I'm looking to pair it with an LGA 775 P4.

NVIDIA offers downloads of all drivers compatible with the 6800 GT on their website. In the past I have had trouble with new drivers and older games. Which driver version offers the best performance for games from the 2000-2005 era?

Jepael wrote: I have no experience but did you read the manual about EAX support? The manual lists support for EAX 1.0 and 2.0. I would still like to know if anyone can confirm that it works in practice.

Does anyone have experience of using this USB sound card with a retro computer and older games? I see that Asus offer a 32-bit XP driver and I wonder if this would support EAX in games from 2003-2005. EDIT: maybe should have posted this in a different subforum...

Okay, I'll use the 640 then. Thanks for the input.

Hi all. I have two LGA 775 Pentium 4 processors: the P4 640 and the P4 550. The 550 is at 3.4 GHz vs 3.2 GHz for the 640. But the 640 has 2M of L2 cache vs 1M for the 550. I'm building a 2004-5 era XP gaming machine and I am interested to know which chip is likely to perform better on average in …