Geforce 6 6600 GT compatible motherboards!

Hello,

i've recently bought an AGP geforce 6 6600 GT graphics card, but realised my motherboard can't handle it before it was too late. Can anyone tell me any motherboards that can please? I'd prefer it to be socket 939 but any recommendations are welcome! Although, I'd much rather it be an AMD processor which I can put it

I've already bought a ASUS A8V-X motherboard, but no I'm having doubts whether it is compatible with the graphics card, and I don't want to risk putting it in and finding out it isn't!

 

I could not find the ASUS A8V-X on the Asus US site but I found it on sites like uk.shopping.com.

I'm assuming that you now have an AGP card and a PCI-E mainboard. I do have an excellent solution if you really want to keep that video card - get the mainboard that I use. It's the Asrock 939 Dual-Sata2. It takes both AGP and PCI-E video cards.

This Asrock 939Dual-Sata2 board used to be found at Newegg for $66 but seems to have been replaced by the ASRock 939Dual-VSTA Socket 939 ULi M1695 ATX AMD Motherboard now going for $70. It too is both AGP/PCI-E. The Dual-Sata2 may be available elsewhere.

If you do go this way, make sure to visit the Asrock forum at www.ocworkbench.com on how to install the chipset drivers - it's based on an ULI chipset. I highly recommend the board and it's probably the most popular Socket 939 board that can accommodate AGP cards. If you really want a S939 board that can run AGP cards, I wouldn't go any other way than either of these Asrock boards.

Gary

 

Because my (now old) motherboard supports 8x/4x AGP,but yet wouldn't support my new graphics card. However, my old motherboard doesn't say whether it is AGP 2.0 or higher compliant 9which is what my graphics card needs), therefore I assume it isn't because I bought it 5 years ago now!

I just wanted to make sure it was ok before I try it out and then find out it doesn't work and therefore can't send the motherboard back!

Cheers for your help :-D

 

Both your 6600GT AGP and your Asus A8V-X are relatively new so you should have no problems.

Note that the board does not have a PCI-E x16 slot so I'm assuming it won't support a PCI-E video card.

The A8V-X board is truly a rare bird - a socket 939 board with an AGP slot but no PCI-E x16 slot.