Reply 40 of 43, by salitoshater
I own 2 of these AliveDual-eSATA2, 2x 939Dual-SATA2 and one 939Dual-VSTA and even the AM2Upgrade Card (and, even if it is not relevant here, the K8 Combo-Z).
I can say the eSATA2 ist by far the best and fastest board for AGP out of there. Pair it with an AMD Sempron SDX150HBK13GM (or SDX145 as the SDX150 is hard to find and expensive), the fastes (not the feature richest, this is the Celeron G470) single core processor , to avoid problems with games that themselves have problems with a dual or multicore setup. Another advantage of the board is the pci-e support and the wide range of processors available (the cpu support list on the ASRock site is not up to date). Where the ASRock 939DUAL (or VSTA) + am2upgrade board ends at the X2 6400+, the eSATA2 is just starting.
Also make sure to use the eSATA2 (ULI/nvidia M1695 and nforce chipset specific) drivers offered on the nvidia homepage, not the ones from the asrock homepage. Since i also have a large selection of graphics cards i can also say that the 6800 series does not cause any problems for me, neither agp nor pci-e (6800, GT and Ultra), at least as far as Windows XP is concerned.