First post, by 386SX
Hi,
in my continuous adventure for a config I don't need to change every week for a bit more speed 😁, I was thinking to switch from the great Barton/KT600 config and build an early Athlon 64 config to stay enough "retro" and with a bit more power.
I was oriented to the same last mobo I had in past, the Asrock 939 Dual-VSTA that had Socket 939, Dual channel, Sata2 and great AGP and PCIe. So I could for a while use an agp card and later thinking to buy some cheap Radeon R7 or Geforce 7xx card for office/multimedia tasks.
I've seen that there're also mobo with Socket 754 and PCIe and even cheaper.
Between the two cpu sockets there're many differences in terms of speed and power usage? I remember the lack of dual channel if I'm right.
Also, the 12V P4 connector is really used so I could use some of the nowdays 5v weak new psu?
And in the case I will buy some of these new generation cheap vga (R7 example) will they work right?
Thank