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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: greyno3 on September 01, 2009, 10:10:15 pm

Title: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: greyno3 on September 01, 2009, 10:10:15 pm

I have been stuck in the AGP world. I have a new GA-K8N51PVMT-9 socket 939 mb and want a PCIe card for it. What's the best video card that I can run with this board? It's running now with an Opteron 180 dual core and corsair XMS CL2 PC3200 memory.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=1938

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: Pottypete on September 01, 2009, 10:40:27 pm

Hi
Have a deko on these posts,
Regards

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: greyno3 on September 02, 2009, 08:19:05 pm

What?  ???  I haven't a clue what you mean.

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: Pottypete on September 02, 2009, 11:34:17 pm

Quote from: Pottypete on September 01, 2009, 10:40:27 pm

Hi
Have a deko  (LOOK) on these posts,
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,345.0.html
Regards

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: greyno3 on September 03, 2009, 01:37:13 am

I'm asking a simple question. Never had a PCIe card before. Guess this is why i run MSI products.

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: Pottypete on September 03, 2009, 11:24:07 am

Hi,
I'm not being negative in my reply to you,

Selecting the right Graphics cards depends on a lot of parameters,
Your Budget
Your intended use, ie, gaming, photo work, video editing,bragging rights,  overclocking etc,
Your power supply output,
Your spare power connectors available,
size requirements in Your PC case,some cards can be quite long,have dual slot requirments,
output requirments,ie,. dual monitors, vga, dvi, hdmi, svideo,
If your looking fort a best bang per buck, you could
go for a HD4670 next up the scale is the HD4730 around the £50-£60 mark,
Regards

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: greyno3 on September 03, 2009, 06:25:26 pm

Thank you for the reply. I'm in the former USA. I need a new psu as it doesn't have extra plugs for the PCIe card. I will get a Corsair 750-850TX. I only have a couple good games like GTA IV which doesn't play now because of onboard graphics suck.

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: Pottypete on September 03, 2009, 08:46:39 pm

hi,
you could have a look at these posts,
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,345.0.html
From what I have read on the web, GT 4 is very CPU intensive and requires a lot of patching due to it being ported directly from the console version,
Google for gt4 system specs others are using,
Regards

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: greyno3 on September 03, 2009, 11:31:09 pm

I have been playing GTA IV on my K8N neo2 withs a 64 4000+ and  EVGA 7800 GS CO card. the board quit when i dropped in the opty 180.

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: greyno3 on September 05, 2009, 02:29:19 am

Well i bought a corsair  PSU and a XFX video card for the Gigabyte mb. All I could afford at the moment.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150424

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006

Title: Re: PCIe video card for 939 mATX MB
Post by: greyno3 on September 12, 2009, 09:26:03 pm

Had a modded bios made for this board. but still would like a cpu voltage adjustment control.

Managed to unlock the folllowing

Quick Power On Self Test
boot Other Device

Frequency/Voltage Control - NB->SB HT Speed , NB <- SB HT Speed , NB<->SB HT Width , VDDQ Voltage Control , DRAM Voltage Control (memory voltages)

Flash at your own risk!

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/747181/Gigaby...34s282.zip






GA-K8N51PVMT-9 F4 bios mod
Opteron 180 dual core @ 2519mhz
Zalman 9500 copper HS/fan
2GB OCZ4001024ELDCPER2-K 2-2-2-5
XFX 9800GT 512mb
Zalman NB h/s
Corsair 750TX psu
XP-pro