My mobo isn't compatible with my gfx card...

ItalianStallion · Feb 5, 2005, 12:47 AM

Well shit... I built a computer almost a year ago in March. I built it with these specs:

P4I 875P Dragon 2 Motherboard
Radeon 8500 64mb Graphics Card
1 gig Kingston dual channel RAM
Pentium 4 2.8 @ 800mhz
350 watt powersupply

Price was an issue, and I had to buy a monitor too so I tried to cut things short... And I even used my old Radeon 8500 because I planned on getting the Radeon x800 PRO much later. So I bought the Radeon x800 PRO around November, but my games were running slow as shit.

Well, I finally figured out why. It took me months, after installing several chipset and graphics card drivers, reformatting and such... well it turns out my motherboard is NOT compatible with Radeon cards. FUCK!

Why didn't I know of this sooner? I'm not sure, nobody really brought it to my attention. I guess it's my fault, but every review I read on the motherboard never really mentioned such a thing, and the only piece of information regarding this on the entire internet is found on the compatibily link of their website, which I never saw before until today because I'm a dipshit, or it just wasn't there before.

http://www.soyogroup.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=289

Out of all those fucking motherboards and video cards, my motherboard was the only one not compatible with the Radeon series of cards.

Can somebody please reccommend a decent motherboard that's compatible with a gig of ram, a pentium 4 and a radeon card? Yes, price is an issue. Try and keep it close to $100 if you can.

No_Style · Feb 5, 2005, 12:52 AM

ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe or ABit IC7-Max3. I recommend those 2 because your current board has the 875 chipset and you probably would like to find an equivalent board. I personally would go with the ASUS, but that's because I've heard many great overclocks with it and I own the younger brother of that board: P4P800 Deluxe

But since you mention price issue, then you can't go wrong with the ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe.

P.S - I never knew that entire product lines can be incompatible with a board. I've heard of certain revisions being incompatible, but not an entire line of products. Simply, Soyo should be ashamed.

ItalianStallion · Feb 5, 2005, 01:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by No_Style

ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe or ABit IC7-Max3. I recommend those 2 because your current board has the 875 chipset and you probably would like to find an equivalent board. I personally would go with the ASUS, but that's because I've heard many great overclocks with it and I own the younger brother of that board: P4P800 Deluxe

But since you mention price issue, then you can't go wrong with the ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe.

P.S - I never knew that entire product lines can be incompatible with a board. I've heard of certain revisions being incompatible, but not an entire line of products. Simply, Soyo should be ashamed.

Yup, I've never heard of such a thing myself.

Now about the motherboards you suggested, may I ask what the difference is between the P4c800-E and the P4p800-E?

redsolar · Feb 5, 2005, 04:28 AM

You'd think a compatibility issue would not be as bad. I could understand something like ATI card + Soyo board + FastWrites = bad. I wish they elaborated more on the nature of the "incompatibility", i.e. define exactly what problem they are talking about. but then again, it's Soyo.... Never liked them to be honest.

CDsDontBurn · Feb 5, 2005, 04:46 AM

MSI 865pe NEO2 PFS

http://www.pcclub.com/product_detail...temno=A4854867

865 chipset, performance difference between 865-875 chipsets is very minimal....like 10%-15%, but you'd be able to use that nice gfx card of yours which would more than make up for the performance loss

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No_Style · Feb 5, 2005, 04:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ItalianStallion

Now about the motherboards you suggested, may I ask what the difference is between the P4c800-E and the P4p800-E?

P4C(anterwood)800-E - based on the 875P chipset and the P4(s)P(ringfield)800-E based on the 865PE. You can check out the feature set over at ASUS website.

Notable mentions include the P4P800's ability to work with PAT enabled with 200 FSB or less while the P4C800 has PAT on all the time.

P.S - If you're wondering why ASUS didn't call it P4S(pringfield)800, that's because the S was reserved for SIS.

jasonbourne · Feb 5, 2005, 04:28 PM

im happy with my p4s800d.

coldfrontt · Feb 6, 2005, 02:26 PM

Asus P4C-800E D is my choice...I've had 0 probs with this board. It ran my 9700Pro every bit as well as the current 5950 Ultra. I use Asus boards in all my builds, and have been very satisfied. The one board I've had to RMA, Asus dealt with it quickly and hassle-free.

**MIG-31** · Feb 6, 2005, 02:38 PM

p4c 800 D is my choice also.(due to i have just swapped from gigabyte 2 days ago). can't say about the price as im in the uk.

p4c800-e delux specs

wiskerbizkit · Feb 6, 2005, 06:26 PM

I have the p4p800s-x 848p chipset im not sure if the chipsets good or not but ive had no probs and have overclocked my 3.0e on it. 1 gig of ddr and a 9800 pro. I havent had a single prob with the board and it was pretty cheap too.

Nuke209 · Feb 7, 2005, 04:11 AM

Look at my sig, not complaining about the board
Great board

Feb 5, 2005, 12:47 AM	#1
ItalianStallion DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 23 Rep Power: 0	My mobo isn't compatible with my gfx card... Well shit... I built a computer almost a year ago in March. I built it with these specs: P4I 875P Dragon 2 Motherboard Radeon 8500 64mb Graphics Card 1 gig Kingston dual channel RAM Pentium 4 2.8 @ 800mhz 350 watt powersupply Price was an issue, and I had to buy a monitor too so I tried to cut things short... And I even used my old Radeon 8500 because I planned on getting the Radeon x800 PRO much later. So I bought the Radeon x800 PRO around November, but my games were running slow as shit. Well, I finally figured out why. It took me months, after installing several chipset and graphics card drivers, reformatting and such... well it turns out my motherboard is NOT compatible with Radeon cards. FUCK! Why didn't I know of this sooner? I'm not sure, nobody really brought it to my attention. I guess it's my fault, but every review I read on the motherboard never really mentioned such a thing, and the only piece of information regarding this on the entire internet is found on the compatibily link of their website, which I never saw before until today because I'm a dipshit, or it just wasn't there before. http://www.soyogroup.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=289 Out of all those fucking motherboards and video cards, my motherboard was the only one not compatible with the Radeon series of cards. Can somebody please reccommend a decent motherboard that's compatible with a gig of ram, a pentium 4 and a radeon card? Yes, price is an issue. Try and keep it close to $100 if you can.

Feb 5, 2005, 12:52 AM	#2
No_Style Styleless Wonder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 6,034 Rep Power: 0	ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe or ABit IC7-Max3. I recommend those 2 because your current board has the 875 chipset and you probably would like to find an equivalent board. I personally would go with the ASUS, but that's because I've heard many great overclocks with it and I own the younger brother of that board: P4P800 Deluxe But since you mention price issue, then you can't go wrong with the ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe. P.S - I never knew that entire product lines can be incompatible with a board. I've heard of certain revisions being incompatible, but not an entire line of products. Simply, Soyo should be ashamed. __________________ "The Best Style Is No Style" Specifications Here

Feb 5, 2005, 04:28 AM	#4
redsolar Off duty Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Las Vegas, USA Posts: 1,242 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	You'd think a compatibility issue would not be as bad. I could understand something like ATI card + Soyo board + FastWrites = bad. I wish they elaborated more on the nature of the "incompatibility", i.e. define exactly what problem they are talking about. but then again, it's Soyo.... Never liked them to be honest. __________________ Real_Men_Do_Not_Use_Space_Bar Main rig: Intel Core i7 930 @ 4.0 Ghz \| Corsair H50 Push/Pull \| 12GB OCZ DDR3 \| ASUS Radeon HD 5850 \| 3x 1TB Samsung F3 RAID5 on Dell PERC 5i SAS + 1TB Hitachi \| MSI X58 Pro-e \| 850W Antec Truepower Quattro \| RocketFish by Lian Li Full Tower Case \| Gateway XHD3000 30" LCD \| Dell 2408WFP 24" LCD \| Dell 2407WFP 24" LCD \| Logitech Z-5500 Speakers \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Laptop: Samsung x360-34P \| Core 2 Duo SU9400 1.4 GHz \| 4GB DDR3 \| 128GB Samsung SSD \| Intel 4500M w/ HDMI \| WiFi \| Bluetooth \| 13.3" WLED 1280x800 \| Windows 7 Professional x64

Feb 5, 2005, 04:46 AM	#5
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,794 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	MSI 865pe NEO2 PFS http://www.pcclub.com/product_detail...temno=A4854867 865 chipset, performance difference between 865-875 chipsets is very minimal....like 10%-15%, but you'd be able to use that nice gfx card of yours which would more than make up for the performance loss . __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Feb 5, 2005, 04:28 PM	#7
jasonbourne DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: great yarmouth uk Posts: 1,082 Rep Power: 0	im happy with my p4s800d. __________________ http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...asonBourne.jpg

Feb 6, 2005, 02:26 PM	#8
coldfrontt DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: canada Posts: 248 Rep Power: 0	Asus P4C-800E D is my choice...I've had 0 probs with this board. It ran my 9700Pro every bit as well as the current 5950 Ultra. I use Asus boards in all my builds, and have been very satisfied. The one board I've had to RMA, Asus dealt with it quickly and hassle-free.

Feb 6, 2005, 02:38 PM	#9
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,843 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	p4c 800 D is my choice also.(due to i have just swapped from gigabyte 2 days ago). can't say about the price as im in the uk. p4c800-e delux specs __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Feb 6, 2005, 06:26 PM	#10
wiskerbizkit DH ***** hobo Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Columbia SC Posts: 467 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I have the p4p800s-x 848p chipset im not sure if the chipsets good or not but ive had no probs and have overclocked my 3.0e on it. 1 gig of ddr and a 9800 pro. I havent had a single prob with the board and it was pretty cheap too.

Feb 7, 2005, 04:11 AM	#11
Nuke209 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: St. Paul Posts: 568 Rep Power: 0	Look at my sig, not complaining about the board Great board __________________ 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX