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Old October 13th 04, 01:46 AM
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:21:33 +0100, "Andre"
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ASUS K8V Deluxe - Motherboard
Processor -One 754-pin socket supports one AMD Athlon 64 processor
Built-in 1MB L2 cache
-AMD64 architecture enables simultaneous 32-bit and 64-bit computing
System Bus Scalable HyperTransport
Chipset VIA K8T800
VIA VT8237
Memory 3 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets support max. 3GB un-buffered ECC and


I built one for a neighbor and its a popular board. AMD bundled it
with the 3200. It did work with his old 64 bit graphics which I used
to power up the system with , hes using a 6800 GT now.

Sure you can use it for a while but future-proof is a subjective
thing. All systems are going to look pretty dang old in about 1.5
years.and it depends on what happens in the furture obviously - some
things may pop up which we cant predict that may totally make your
system out of date. One thing BTX. If everyone suddenly switches to
BTX in the next few years or some other thing like that --- it could
make your system more out of it than we imagine.

Right now --- the PCI express boards uh ... should be out any day now.
They were predicted to come out by VIA at the end of Sept , then Oct,
Still no word so its hard to say but they should be out between now
and Dec probably, Nvidia is also supposed to come out with their new
boards with PCI express for the AMDs. So in that sense -- itll be out
of date a bit right away. Second the 754 socket itself may become more
and more out of it -- the next two years since 939 is falling in price
and thats going to be AMDs mainstream socket.

In performance terms -- sure youll be able to use your system for
quite a while. The 754 socket and ATX and AGP wont disappear -
hopefully. No ones predicting it. Of couse just how out of it itll
seem -- no one knows. You can still get some PCI graphics cards
obviously but they seem ancient.