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Title: motherboard for mame usage - what do you think????
Post by: Petesie on August 01, 2008, 06:27:19 pm

Shorten those links! (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASUS-P4S8X-X-Motherboard-Intel-Pentium-4-2-4-GHZ-CPU_W0QQitemZ250276464769QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item250276464769)

would this be woth a £20 offer???

Title: Re: motherboard for mame usage - what do you think????
Post by: Petesie on August 01, 2008, 09:12:51 pm

thanks for your help peale - didnt know how to shorten

Title: Re: motherboard for mame usage - what do you think????
Post by: BradC on August 01, 2008, 09:42:49 pm

£20 for shipping seems like a total ripoff (unless that's the cost of shipping from one side of the pond to the other) but £40 total is a decent deal for that mobo.

Title: Re: motherboard for mame usage - what do you think????
Post by: Petesie on August 02, 2008, 05:58:36 am

does it have the connector for my arcade vga card from ultimarc????
no point in buying if i doesnt do this as thats the reason for purchasing

Title: Re: motherboard for mame usage - what do you think????
Post by: ark_ader on August 02, 2008, 07:19:22 am

All in one motherboards are ideal for a cabinet.  I would look to paying 30-40 pounds for it, but on this side of the pond.  If you have a problem with it, then you have to ship it back.  :blah:

Shame you didn't post earlier, as I just gave away a 2.4 CPU and Asus Mobo. 

I have another Intel P4 CPU that is going spare, if you want it. PM me.

Everything is Dual Core these days.  But you do need a PSU that will take the card and everything else to power your cab.

I would look to system pulls on Ebay co.uk for something cheap.  Like 15 quid.  :cheers:

Title: Re: motherboard for mame usage - what do you think????
Post by: scotthh on August 02, 2008, 11:10:27 am

The Arcade VGA card comes in two varieties, AGP and PCI-E.
The motherboard you linked to has an AGP8X slot.
If I'm not mistaken, if you've got the AGP version of the Arcade VGA it should work with this board.

Title: Re: motherboard for mame usage - what do you think????
Post by: Petesie on August 03, 2008, 08:05:51 am

thanks for your help folks - good job this works cause i bid £20 on it and was accepted so £40 delivered - not bad i think as you say
thanks for letting me know which cable to ask Andy at ultimarc for cause i would never had known. i will order my AGP version of the avga and hopefully when that arrives i can power this baby up
thx ark for the offer - i really should check this more often  lolol.

didn't know if i could use the existing psu in my pc  but ive been looking at 400 watt power supplys on eBay - - -not to pricey, roughly £13 delivered - should i buy one???????

anything else you can think off that i might need to get?????? - i don't think so but im new to this and know nowt about computers!!!!