Motherboad Help

[coley]

I am planning to purchase Asus P5KPL-AM iG31 matx board.
I just want to check that a Geforce 9800Gt will fit into the PCI-E slot without any obstructs as I have read that with some matx motherboards the battery and sata ports can obstruct a large sized graphics board.

I have the the case with a atx board fitted at the moment running with no problems apart from 50cm sticking out of the side, so the case is fine.

Also am I right in asuming regarding to speed there will be very little gained in the other intel chipsets ig33, ig35, ig41, ig45, my memory DDR2-667 (333 MHz)667mhz.

I dont I need any more features than whats on the Asus P5KPL.

If you could give me some help on this I would be very grateful

Thanks Coley

[Dave Mak]

what do you already have?

case and mobo
or
case and g/card

if you have the case and g/card and it all fits then i see no probs looking at the pics of the asus board

if you have the case and mobo then its possible that the 9800gt will be a bit too big for the case.

also does it have to be a 9800gt (which is a rebadged 8800gt with some minor tweaks) the ati HD4850 is a far better card for the same price

also.. what is the rest of the intended specs of your system..

cpu
mem
monitor size

[coley]

I have at the moment a atx tower case with a midi atx motherboard and a 9800gt. I have this connected via HDMI to a 32 Toshiba Lcd. This is located in my living room and is used for games surfing etc. But the case I have is massive.

I picked up a nice small case (matx)for £20. It takes normal atx power supplies and full size pci cards. I have got everthing in the new case including the new motherboard and it is running great and it looks superb except that the mobo sticks out by 2 inch lol.

Coley

[Dave Mak]

look at your system now and look were the southbridge chip is on the new board... (bottom left heatsink)

does it look like the fan on the g/card will touch

[coley]

thanks for that Dave found some better pictures of it I take it the south bridge is the one with the gold coloured heatsink.

heres the pics if you would take a look.

h**p://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131350&Tpk=P5KPL-AM


The fan on 9800gt works out central of the next pci slot and just misses it on my current mb

thanks for ya help

coley

[Dave Mak]

you should be fine then :ok

[coley]

yes I reckon so thanks for the support.

Coley

[jakeuk]

that southbridge heat sink looks like it has been made thinner deliberately for that reason???

[coley]

It defo goes in I have found a forum with people have it. I have at the moment a ASRock 4CoreDual-ViSTA with Motherboard Chipset ViaPT880Ultra. Do you think the performance will be better or worse than the ausus Asus P5KPL-AM iG31.

Coley