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Re: Get up and running with Dual Core for around £155inc
Yes 3.3v agp cards are first and 2x generation cards.
All agp 4x and 8x cards will be 1.5v and as Zinglebarb has quite rightly said there are notches to prevent installing incompatible cards.
Is that the mobo that wires up an agp slot via a pci-e bridge ? i seem to remember you take a hit on performance because its not true agp.
Asrock do some cheap upgrade boards, i remember they used to do one talled the hdtv-twins, which had ddr1/2 and was based on an ati chipset (better than via tbh) which may of had only a pci-e slot and no agp but it did have an onboard ati x300 which suffices as a budget video card and allows you to live with that for a month until your next paycheck.
As for those waiting for dx10 card prices to fall, thats not going to happen really until early next year when the Amd.Ati R600 arrives to compete with the Gf 8800, that and we actually get some use for dx10 (ie vista and games that support it).
currently the gf8800 is a dx10 card in name only as there still arent any dx10 drivers for it! nevermind any dx10 apps to run on it!
Still its not bad at running dx9
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