Hi there everyone, I have a packard bell ixtreme 6093, it came with a P4 2.8ghz chip and 512DDR RAM which ive upgraded to a gig. Ive recently bought a 6600GT AGP card only to find out that ive only got a 4X slot on my motherboard. I was wondering whether there are any motherboards out for this socket type processor which are better than standard packard bell ones? When i replace my motherboard i want the new one to support my mPGA478b P4 chip with 512kb cache with hyper threading technology, 8X AGP slot and support for my current pc2700 DDR RAM. I would like one that runs on a better/faster chipset than the columbia VI motherboard which runs on the SIS 645 chipset which i currently use, possibly nforce4 if theres one available? Basically i want a motherboard compatible with my current components which will give my system a boost for music production and online gaming, any help will be much appreciated, cheers elred
there are plent of motherboards that are better than your standard packard bell one. but from what i understand that ixtreme is a pretty new machine. are you sure that the slot is definately AGP 4x and not a pci express slot as an 8x card should fit in a 4x slot
hi there i'm not saying that the 6600GT doesnt fit, i'm just after a newer motherboard with an 8X AGP slot and a faster chipset than the sis645, possibly nforce4? I do know however that the mpga478b is not a common socket type anymore, thats why i came here to ask whether anyone knows of a good motherboard supporting this socket type, AGP 8X and the same type of memory that i currently have. I want an 8x slot because i have heard that it lets twice as much data through as my 4X one on my motherboard, which will make it better, right? The PC was bought in the autumn/fall of 2003 so its getting on a bit cheers, elred
well there are plenty of motherboards too choose from. im not sure if there are any nforce 4 boards for that type of CPU but there are definately some nforce chipsets available these arent nforce boards but they are the type your after they all have an AGP 8x slot on them http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/products.aspx?cat=0&subcat=99&brand=27 thats only of any use to you if your in the uk really but thats the kind of thing your after
hello again, My chip is a mPGA 478b, does this mean that its compatible with all 478 boards which dont say the letters mpga and b?
