08-05-2009, 04:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2009, 04:17 PM by Concillian.)
You aren't likely to find any 875P chipsets, or anything "a bit newer" with an AGP slot. 8 series was the last AGP Intel Platform, anything newer will be PCI-express. 875 was the "performance" version of the chipset and 865 the more budget oriented version. Since anyone remotely seeking performance will not have an AGP card, that one has been discontinued for some time.
865 is very, very similar to the 875 and when these chipsets were "the thing" many budget conscious, but performance oriented folk would still buy an 865 chipset because the performance differences were minimal (865PE and 875P were actually the same piece of silicon, just the 875P would tend to overclock better). You should be fine with an 865 (G or PE both support 8x AGP and will operate your video card fine.)
865 is very, very similar to the 875 and when these chipsets were "the thing" many budget conscious, but performance oriented folk would still buy an 865 chipset because the performance differences were minimal (865PE and 875P were actually the same piece of silicon, just the 875P would tend to overclock better). You should be fine with an 865 (G or PE both support 8x AGP and will operate your video card fine.)
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Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.