Anyone?

I have no experience with this particular board... But it has AMD-760 chipset, so AGP 4x 1.5V support. In theory it should support all late AGP cards. I would avoid bridged Radeons as those tend to have more compatibility issues generally. Radeon 9700/9800 is definitely on the safe side as well as X800 / X850. GeForce up to 6800 Ultra (NV40) is also fine. Bridged GeForce like 6600 GT, some variants of 6800 and 7600/7800/7900 most likely will run no problem as well. Mine 7800 GS worked well using Tyan Thunder MPX (also AMD-760 chipset).

Thanks. I did look it back before posting and seen a few people claim that latter ATI cards like the 9800 do not work in the board. But nothing definitive.

The more I mess with AGP 4x chipsets, the more I wonder if any other than Intel's have solid AGP compliance.

I think you need to go into the AGP 8x era to finally find solid 3rd party chipsets.

Posted here the user Skyscraper states that nivida bridged cards do not work on the kg7.

The user Skyscraper thinks an AGP Geforce 6800 GT or Ultra is the best choice if one wants to maximize the video performance using an an AMD 760 chipset motherboard or any other old non Intel chipset AGP motherboard for that matter.

It's possible that the Nvidia bridged cards can be made to work but in my short testing I did not manage to get them fully stable with the Abit KG7 or the Asus A7M266.

The AMD bridged cards like the AGP X1950 Pro were somewhat less problematic but I would still go with a non bridged card.

Using an Athlon XP-M 2800+, the KG7 and the Geforce 6800 GT @Ultra I had no issues with running Doom 3 v1.0 at 1024*768 using the Ultra preset. I find this kind of impressive for a motherboard chipset from year 2000.

I was going to mess around with my Socket-A motherboards and CPUs alot more but that project got sidetracked by life in the form of too much to do at work and I have not revisited Socket-A since.

ATI/AMD cards are less of a hassle on problematic AGP boards. Even bridged ones like the x1950Pro work just fine on my VIA chipsetted PIII boards (Asus 694T and QDI Apollo Pro 266T). Bridged nVidia cards like the 7800GS fail miserably on these boards. They work fine on i815 however.

swaaye wrote:

The more I mess with AGP 4x chipsets, the more I wonder if any other than Intel's have solid AGP compliance.

I think you need to go into the AGP 8x era to finally find solid 3rd party chipsets.

I remember SiS having pretty solid AGP support. In late 2002 a friend of mine had one of the first P4 3.06 HT rigs built around a SiS-based Asus motherboard. Pretty sure it was 4x only, but it was just as rock solid and heart touching as Asus' Intel boards. He started off with a 9700 Pro and upgraded to a 7800GS a few years later. No issues at all.