I got this motherboard. Alright now from what I understood its a nforce 3 board. Okay then why does it have a via chip on it and whats the via chip for? Do I have to install via chipset drivers on top of the nforce 3 drivers?
Also what is cpu spread function for? And last but not least is there a way to set how much system ram a pci vid card can share with this mobo? Is it through agp aperture or something like that?
Sorry for the questions, but im having a blonde moment..LOL!
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
The well-known nForce3 chipset from nVidia supports AMD Socket939 CPUs, providing AGP 8x and SATA; whereas the newer nForce4 Ultra supports PCI-X and SATA-2.
In addition to the main nVidia chipset, the motherboard uses chips from Realtek (audio and Gb LAN), Marvell (another Gb LAN) and VIA (1394 FireWire).
It looks like a good mobo, it's all you need if using AGP. It has lots of harddisk connections...
Spread spectrum is a way to reduce RFI, but that's usually not a problem and can cause instability under some conditions - just disable it.
AGP aperture never needs to be above 128MB, and 64MB is better is you're hard up for system RAM.
But it's for AGP video @ 1x/2x/4x/8x 66MHz, not PCI video @ 33MHz.
L8R
Okay ogs thanks. Do you know where I can find the marvel driver? I looked and google cbut cant seem to find one. Okay is there a way to share memory with a pci vid card? And basically install the nforce 3 drivers and then the via 1394 firewire driver right? Thanks ogs for the info.:>
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
System 1 :- Main PC: AMD XP 3200+ - OC Slightly 2.31Ghz, 1024 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive, 1 x 60GB Hard Drive, ATI 9600XT (256 MB)Graphics Card.
Laptop 1: 1GB DDR2 Ram, 100Gb Samsung HDD, ATI X700 128mb Graphics Card.
System 2: Downloading PC: AMD Sempron 2500+, 512 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive.
There is everything but the Marvell Gb-LAN driver there...
Which makes me think it is recognised easily by WinXP, or by Windows Update.
But I dunno - there's a question for MSI tech support ;^)
System 1 :- Main PC: AMD XP 3200+ - OC Slightly 2.31Ghz, 1024 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive, 1 x 60GB Hard Drive, ATI 9600XT (256 MB)Graphics Card.
Laptop 1: 1GB DDR2 Ram, 100Gb Samsung HDD, ATI X700 128mb Graphics Card.
System 2: Downloading PC: AMD Sempron 2500+, 512 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive.
wdowsing I already posted the web page for the mobo im working with. Thanks anyway, but yes read the page I was refering too. This mobo has two lans...one marvel and one realtek...weird huh?
Thanks ogs I missed the page. Good one last thing to do now is find a a updated usb driver and a via firewire driver since yeah said the via chip was for firewire. Woo yoo....thanks ogs. Off to google for the via firewire now and thanks for the page. I missed it for some reason.:>
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
System 1 :- Main PC: AMD XP 3200+ - OC Slightly 2.31Ghz, 1024 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive, 1 x 60GB Hard Drive, ATI 9600XT (256 MB)Graphics Card.
Laptop 1: 1GB DDR2 Ram, 100Gb Samsung HDD, ATI X700 128mb Graphics Card.
System 2: Downloading PC: AMD Sempron 2500+, 512 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive.
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
