Tetrium wrote:

A64 with PCIe compares to A64 with AGP in a somewhat similar fashion as a 486 with PCI compares to a 486 with VLB. It's a bit of […]
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386SX wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Maybe I should rebuild that Barton rig sometime...if only for nostalgia's sake 😁. At some point I took the harddrive out because I wanted to backup my old data and the PSU seems to also have been put to use in something else.

Yeah! For myself I choosed to build the pc around the Barton cause I wanted an overall retro/modern machine not too much old where it'd be impossible to surf the web, not to modern to loose that vintage feeling these configurations have. Maybe I could switch to a A64 with PCIX in future.

A64 with PCIe compares to A64 with AGP in a somewhat similar fashion as a 486 with PCI compares to a 486 with VLB.
It's a bit of a different challenge. Personally I like the A64 AGP systems though, as (in a way) it really is a pinnacle of AGP for the masses. There were also my fastest AGP systems ever and I've used no less then 3 A64 AGP systems for years and they proved to be very reliable to me.

PCIe A64 is interesting thoug, if only because it's a nice way to dump excess crappy PCIe cards for a system that has some good retro value 😁

Yeah the idea was that I could also put some new cheap pciexpress vga that has much more features than any agp had on a retro board like these socket 939. 😉

That Asrock was my last motherboard in my upgrade history back in the 2006/7. It'd be nice to rebuild the same config I had. I remember buying the ATi X1800XL... 😀