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    Reef Shark
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    Question Abit BX133 RAID, but no AGP4x, help me choose new one...

    I just upgraded my system (disregard sig. for now) to a Intel PIII 1GHz Flip Chip and an ABIT BX133-RAID motherboard. Well I noticed when I got home that it does not support AGP 4x. What would be a good board for me that has the same features as the one I have now, but also supports AGP 4x? Thanks for any help.

    P.S. the PIII FC FLIES!!!!!!!!

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    PII 266MHz (soon to update to dual PIII 800's)
    Adaptec 3940AUW SCSI Controler
    Adaptec 2940AUW SCSI Controler
    Seagate Barracuda 9GB, 2x Seagate Barracuda 4GB, Maxtor 5GB (IDE)
    ATI All-In-Wonder Pro AGP
    Creative DVD
    Creative MPEG-2 Decoder
    HP 8110i CD-RW
    3com 905 NIC
    Creative AWE64 Gold
    Ext. Zip 250 (SCSI)
    Ext. Jaz 2GB (SCSI)
    Ext. Syquest 1GB
    USR 56K Voice Modem Pro Ext. USB
    RCA digital Broadband Cable Modem
    LinkSys Cable/DSL Router
    PIII Coppermine Flip Chip, 1GHz
    Tyan Tiger 200 (S2505D)
    512MB PC133 SDRAM
    Intel SRCU31 U160 RAID Controller
    Adaptec DTP PM15564U3 RAID/SCSI Controller
    nVidia XGL 900 128MB DDR SARAM Video Card
    Cisco 2912XL Switch
    RCA Digital Broadband Modem
    Linksys Cable/DSL Router
    KDS VisualSensations 19" Monitor

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    Catfish
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    Teh best choice with the same features and 4x agp would be the Abit SA6R... 815e with raid. But you might want to consider staying bx... still more compatible and 4x agp isn't so much more impressive than 2x.

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    Reef Shark
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    Well, I haven't actually seen 4x AGP (actually, I might have it on my Dell System. here at work???), but, I'm going to be adding an ATI all-in-wonder Radeon, so you think 4x AGP is not going to be that much better than 2x??? Opinions please, what is the actual performance increase with 4x AGP??? Thanks for the help.

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    PII 266MHz (soon to update to dual PIII 800's)
    Adaptec 3940AUW SCSI Controler
    Adaptec 2940AUW SCSI Controler
    Seagate Barracuda 9GB, 2x Seagate Barracuda 4GB, Maxtor 5GB (IDE)
    ATI All-In-Wonder Pro AGP
    Creative DVD
    Creative MPEG-2 Decoder
    HP 8110i CD-RW
    3com 905 NIC
    Creative AWE64 Gold
    Ext. Zip 250 (SCSI)
    Ext. Jaz 2GB (SCSI)
    Ext. Syquest 1GB
    USR 56K Voice Modem Pro Ext. USB
    RCA digital Broadband Cable Modem
    LinkSys Cable/DSL Router
    PIII Coppermine Flip Chip, 1GHz
    Tyan Tiger 200 (S2505D)
    512MB PC133 SDRAM
    Intel SRCU31 U160 RAID Controller
    Adaptec DTP PM15564U3 RAID/SCSI Controller
    nVidia XGL 900 128MB DDR SARAM Video Card
    Cisco 2912XL Switch
    RCA Digital Broadband Modem
    Linksys Cable/DSL Router
    KDS VisualSensations 19" Monitor

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    Tiger Shark
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    4x isn't all that much better than 2x

    get the asus cusl2 since it has "real" support for the 133 fsb

    your system right now the video card is overclocked

    ur bus is 133 the agp divider is at 2/3 which gives you a 88.6 agp bus and most cards don't like that

    okay with all that said go for a 815 chipset board

    abit and asus comes to mind

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