asrock k7s8x

Hi all, ive just ordered a new mobo asrock K7S8X and I was wondering what
graphics card would go well with this in a budget system. I have a athlon
xp2500 and 2 x 256mb pc2700 ram already. just looking for a card.
This pc will mainly be used to surf the web, home office tasks and
watching a few DVDs on.
Thanks for your help

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:13:11 +0000, LOOPY LEE wrote:

Hi all, ive just ordered a new mobo asrock K7S8X and I was wondering what
graphics card would go well with this in a budget system. I have a athlon
xp2500 and 2 x 256mb pc2700 ram already. just looking for a card.
This pc will mainly be used to surf the web, home office tasks and
watching a few DVDs on.

Iuse a GF2 GTS. Just be aware that it has to be at least a 4x board. It
supports AGP 4x/8x.

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Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.html

I have the same board and picked up an SIS 64 bit AG315P-64 card for $24,
and that was some time ago so you might get a better deal.

This card is fast and has crisp graphics.

The motherboard sucks for OC and is slower than the EP 8K5A board that was
replaced by it.

Its a good motherboard for home computing.

I never could get the harddrive led to work correctly with this board, but I
have all ide drives occupied and I read this causes a problem with low-end
boards.

Pete

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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:13:11 +0000, LOOPY LEE wrote:

Hi all, ive just ordered a new mobo asrock K7S8X and I was wondering
what
graphics card would go well with this in a budget system. I have a
athlon
xp2500 and 2 x 256mb pc2700 ram already. just looking for a card.
This pc will mainly be used to surf the web, home office tasks and
watching a few DVDs on.

Iuse a GF2 GTS. Just be aware that it has to be at least a 4x board. It
supports AGP 4x/8x.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.html

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:42:23 +0000, Peter Harrington wrote:

I have the same board and picked up an SIS 64 bit AG315P-64 card for $24,
and that was some time ago so you might get a better deal.

This card is fast and has crisp graphics.

The motherboard sucks for OC and is slower than the EP 8K5A board that was
replaced by it.

The original has no multiplier or vcore options, but I did get the FSB up
to either 210 or 215Mhz. Don't recall for sure, but I think it 215. The R3
model has full support for multipliers up to 24x, and also a +5% vcore
increse over the cpu default.

I never could get the harddrive led to work correctly with this board,
but I have all ide drives occupied and I read this causes a problem with
low-end boards.

Never had a problem with either board for IDE led, even with an IDE raid
controller installed, drive led lights up when it's accessed too.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.html