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NVIDIA nforce2 M/B chipset with Radeon Graphics cards
Hi there,
I'd appreciate a bit of help. I am currently running a Mesh PC based on an Athlon 800 which I have had for aorund 3 to 4 years and I have decided to upgrade to a PC based on an Athlon XP2800+ (Barton). I have built PCs before but not for around 7 or 8 years so I am now well out of touch. The motherboard I plan to use is the Gigabyte GA-79400Pro2. My question may be totally irrelevant, but this motherboard uses an NVIDIA nforce2 Ultra 400 chipset and I plan to use it with a Radeon 9600XT graphics card. Are there likely to be any incompatibiliteis? Would I be better off with an NVIDIA graphics card or switching to a Gigabyte GA-7VT600-1394 motherboard that uses a VIA Apollo KT600 chipset? Finally, any advice about whether to use 400 MHz or 333MHz memory and anything else to worry about? Any advice appreciated Harry |
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" Hm" wrote in message ... Hi there, I'd appreciate a bit of help. I am currently running a Mesh PC based on an Athlon 800 which I have had for aorund 3 to 4 years and I have decided to upgrade to a PC based on an Athlon XP2800+ (Barton). I have built PCs before but not for around 7 or 8 years so I am now well out of touch. The motherboard I plan to use is the Gigabyte GA-79400Pro2. My question may be totally irrelevant, but this motherboard uses an NVIDIA nforce2 Ultra 400 chipset and I plan to use it with a Radeon 9600XT graphics card. Are there likely to be any incompatibiliteis? Would I be better off with an NVIDIA graphics card or switching to a Gigabyte GA-7VT600-1394 motherboard that uses a VIA Apollo KT600 chipset? Finally, any advice about whether to use 400 MHz or 333MHz memory and anything else to worry about? Any advice appreciated Harry The nvidia chipsets are awesome, no way would I think about anything made by VIA if I was building today. Your choice of graphics card is good, also. No problems. The CPU you chose is a 333MHz chip. You will likely have better benchmark results using 333MHz memory. For real-world performance though, I doubt if 400MHz memory would slow you down noticeably, even though the CPU and memory would be running asynchronously. Also, it is somewhat unlikely that you will want either 333 OR 400MHz memory when you build your next system, so future-proofing is not a consideration. I'd probably buy 400 OR 333, whichever is cheapest. If the same price, go for 333. IMHO -Dave |
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" Hm" wrote in message ... The motherboard I plan to use is the Gigabyte GA-79400Pro2. My question may be totally irrelevant, but this motherboard uses an NVIDIA nforce2 Ultra 400 chipset and I plan to use it with a Radeon 9600XT graphics card. Are there likely to be any incompatibiliteis? Would I be better off with an NVIDIA graphics card or switching to a Gigabyte GA-7VT600-1394 motherboard that uses a VIA Apollo KT600 chipset? The Radeon cards work just fine with the Nvidia chipsets, no compatibility issues. |
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"Ctal" wrote in message .com... " Hm" wrote in message ... The motherboard I plan to use is the Gigabyte GA-79400Pro2. My question may be totally irrelevant, but this motherboard uses an NVIDIA nforce2 Ultra 400 chipset and I plan to use it with a Radeon 9600XT graphics card. Are there likely to be any incompatibiliteis? Would I be better off with an NVIDIA graphics card or switching to a Gigabyte GA-7VT600-1394 motherboard that uses a VIA Apollo KT600 chipset? The Radeon cards work just fine with the Nvidia chipsets, no compatibility issues. Always previously been a VIA user but I've just (last week) built a XP2800+ PC with an NForce2 mobo (NF7-S), 1gig PC3200 memory, Win XP Pro and am using a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro with no probs whatsoever. Have fun. Shawk. |
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