Another new toy for me
I fucked up my Athlon XP 1800+ by installing a Athlon XP 3200+ CPU. Come to find out the CPU was bad. Anyway I saved enough money, just for a rainiy day. I went to RPC Computers and noticed they had a sale going on for a mobo and CPU bundle. It had the AMD Athlon 64 2800+ with a K8 Triton mobo from Gigabyte. The salesman kept pushing me to buy it ofcorse I already wanted it but since it's a small own computer shop I wanted him to lower the price since it wasn't backed by a curent price from a comerical company. Well it didn't work so I ended up paying the full price of 300 bucks for it. Best part is they were out of the mobos for the bundle sale so he tosses in a better mobo that was basicly the same as the other but with more USB ports (8 ports), dual LAN, SATA RAID, and dual BIOS. If I had a cam that didn't suck major ass I would take shots of the boxes that the mobo and the CPU came in and maybe shots of inside of my PC. All I can give out right now is screen shots of my specs. I've shown them to Tim (FishNET) so he can back me up. If you're wondering my prevous AMD 64 was taken back :( But this one is here to stay for ever untill i upgrade it with a better one lol.
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my old gigabyte board has that
Dual bios doesnt work in some cases. The bios pretends to be working but does nothing. I have seen pictures of someon ripping of his first bios chip with a huge grip. The board worked perfectly afterwards.
Heres what the mobo has.
Socket 754
1600MHz FSB
nForce3 250
3 slots for DDR (DDR400/333/266)
1 AGP 4x/8x (1.5v) 5 PCI
2 IDE
GigaRAID IT8212
SATA 4 connections two by the nForce and two by the Sil3512
1LPT, 2serial, 1game, 8usb 2.0, 3 IEEE1394b (firewire)
Dual LAN Marvell 8001 10/100/1000 and nvidia lan 10/100
The list contunes, in the manual it takes up 2 and a half pages listing the features.
Dual BIOS is mostly used for protecting the BIOS from viruses and bad flash updates.
http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Su ... 8NSNXP.htm
Nevermind, I fixed it.
Look, i just did a Google search about it and read this:
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) - A dedicated expansion port that began to show up on motherboards in the second half of 1997. It bypasses the PCI bus and allows higher throughput from the graphics card to the processor and memory for speedier 3D graphics. Original AGP cards were "1x" versions that ran at 66MHz, offering 266MB/second throughput; but now AGP supports up to 8X data transfer speeds, which means the card still runs at 66MHz, but transfers 8x as much data per clock tick, upping the throughput to 2.1GB/second. Although the throughput is much greater, most graphics cards have a large amount of local memory and thus do not get much of a bonus from faster AGP speeds.
from geek.com
-Q