K so i take it my 8x agp card will not work on this board and i need to get a new graphics card!

Baltan

Yeah. But an upgrade to PCI-E is a lot better since PCI-E cards are a lot cheaper than AGP ones nowadays. If ur into heavy gaming, get a Radeon X800 series card or a GeForce 6800 series card.

ok i have th abit motherboard.

Motherboard= http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=14662&GroupID=1526

I now have 30 pounds to spend on my graphics card untill i can afford a more expensive one.

Here are the Choices:

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=15067&GroupID=1264

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=15124&GroupID=1264

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=15142&GroupID=1227


PLease tell me which one you guys think is best

Thanxs Baltan

9250SE Because it dosnt have turbocache

What is wrong with turbocache.

Any more on the 3 cards?

Turbocache means it steals your system RAM instead of having it's own onboard RAM.

May result in sluggish performance, also you'd need more RAM to supply.

Also, just a little note I'd like to add. Although DDR2 does boast up to twice the speed/bandwidth of DDR RAM, the timings are much more loose/high which may result in a small net performance gain. As I believe AMD systems are more reliant on the timings than high bandwidth(Intel).

That answers part of my question so which one of the three cards should i get then?

Probably the 9250 card.

I concur. Just out of curiosity, when will u be getting a new card?

As Soon As Possible

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I have a 120 GB Samsung ide hard drive is there a pata to sata cable that i can get so that my hard drive will work on my motherbaord without me getting a new hard drive and operating system???

If i can do it this way can i get the cable from microdirect??


Baltan

as for the "PATA to SATA cable"... no such cable exists, but you can buy a cheap converter card like this one that plugs right into the back of your PATA HDD and allows you to connect it via SATA cable (your motherboard will most likely come with more than enough SATA cables).

an alternative would be to purchase an PCI controller card like this, which will allow you to connect up to 4 PATA devices

I couldn't find either of those products on the microdirect website, but they are easy to find at other online store like tigerdirect.com (they ship internationally too).

BTW -PATA and SATA drives are both IDE drives

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There's a USB SATA cable on MicroDirect that allows u to externally connect a SATA HDD via USB to the PC. It's sold out though . But here is the link anyways.

Cheers for the help guys i have decided to get a new hard drive anyway.

jus want to know if this one will work on my board. Also what is the differen between sata 2 and sata?

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=11058&GroupID=601

or

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=13605&GroupID=1049

Ypu guys could also recomend one if you want. The main thing is i need to know if it will work with my board.

This one has a much faster seek time for a similar price, so it will provide much better performance. SATA II is used for HDDs with transfer speeds of 300 Mb/sec compared to SATA I HDDs with transfer speeds of 150 Mb/sec.

Seagate makes good drives. either one should work fine with your motherboard.

SATA and SATAII are specifications (like ATX, ATX12v, etc.). each specification includes certain features. SATAII (which was renamed to SATA-IO) includes additional features over SATA such as NQC (native command queuing) and hot-plug, as well as the faster 3Gb/s [theoretical] transfer rate.

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