ECS NFORCE3-A have AGP/PCI Lock?

[Woahtiger2]

I've tried to get as much information as I can about this board. I want to get a combo I saw at frys for $119 for a A64 3000+ S754 with this mobo. I was wondering if anyone who has experience with this board noticed a AGP/PCI lock. Is there a particular bios version that has it or do all of them? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[grooge]

nforce chipset has a PCI/agp lock.

 

[LED]

Depends on the Rev/Model and Gen...1st Gen NF3 chipset (150?) did not have a PCI/AGP lock which was later corrected by NVidia and/or the BIOS

 

[Zap]

This ECS board uses the Nforce3 250 chipset and does have AGP/PCI lock. It is capped at 250MHz in BIOS and people have successfully run it at that speed. Potentially higher using Clockgen or Ntune. I'm considering picking up one of these to mess around... $69.99 with a Sempron 2600+ at Fry's this weekend.

 

[kovert]

ARGH!!! Are you kidding me...WTF, they need to build a FRY's in my area...I have a motherboard starting to get flaky and that would be a great pick up for the money!!..DAMN

 

[pdo]

Just pickup ECS NFORCE3-A+SEMPRON 2800+ for $69. Great deals and works good so far.

 

[kovert]

Ok enough of the rubbing in. If someone was willing to buy one I would pay them...

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: .paldo
Just pickup ECS NFORCE3-A+SEMPRON 2800+ for $69. Great deals and works good so far.

Are you in CA? Seems like the CA Fry's has better deals than the Chicago Fry's. That price here only nets a Sempron 2600+ combo. Same clock speed, half the cache.