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wrote:I have also seen that ABIT KR7A-RAID for 38 euro on Ebay, it looks like it has some bad caps. "K-systems" (Ebay shop in Bulgari […]
wrote:I found an Abit KW7 recently on ebay, but is 81 €... also found an NF7 for 89 € ahtough i found an ABIT KR7A-RAID for 38 € […]
wrote:back on topic - I highly recommend the A7V880 (despite my general dislike for Asus mainboards). It's a great motherboard and should be relatively easy to find. The Abit KT880 is better but they are notoriously hard to come by since people who bought Abit usually went for nforce 2 boards...
Performance-wise the KT880 has slightly lower memory performance (1-5%) but overall higher CPU scores. AGP performance is about the same on both chipsets.
I found an Abit KW7 recently on ebay, but is 81 €... also found an NF7 for 89 € ahtough i found an ABIT KR7A-RAID for 38 €
I'm currently stuck with 4 MSI Socket A mobos and 1 ASUS mobo
Just wondering, can i contribute in some CPU benchmarks, i would try 3DMark, but i don't have a Radeon x1950 AGP
I have also seen that ABIT KR7A-RAID for 38 euro on Ebay, it looks like it has some bad caps. "K-systems" (Ebay shop in Bulgaria) has an Asus A7V880 motherboard for about the same price but that board has both bad caps and a beat up DB-25 LPT port.
I kind of stumbled on a KT880 motherboard while looking for something else so I luckily don't have to search for decaying (but still expensive) carcasesses on Ebay.
The X1950 Pro is probably not going to be the only video card used for the CPU scaling benchmarking as I ran in to too much issues. As the X1950 Pro is a video card sunaiac owns it will probably be used to compare Socket A to Slot A unless sunaiac owns some other rather fast AGP card, preferable DX9 but perhaps even a Geforce 4 Ti would be adequate.
The Geforce 6800GT/Ultra seems like a good DX9 card to use for the CPU scaling tests as the AGP version do not use one of those craptastic PCI-E - AGP bridges. It should also run on most motherboards so it could be used for chipset performance comparisons aswell.
I can buy other cards if needed.
But we could also consider doing tests on slower platforms with one video card, fast platforms with another, and just have some "middle" platforms done with both.
Something like 500->1000 MHz with GF4 MX 460, 1000->top MHz with 6800, and 900 --> 1200 with both.
Or whatever cards are easy, compatibility-wise.
My 1950 pro is in a FX55, and my K7 1000 has a MX 460 actually 😁 (and those are my fastest AGP cards, in addition to a firegl 8800)
R9 3900X/X470 Taichi/32GB 3600CL15/5700XT AE/Marantz PM7005
i7 980X/R9 290X/X-Fi titanium | FX-57/X1950XTX/Audigy 2ZS
Athlon 1000T Slot A/GeForce 3/AWE64G | K5 PR 200/ET6000/AWE32
Ppro 200 1M/Voodoo 3 2000/AWE 32 | iDX4 100/S3 864 VLB/SB16