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Biostar G31-M4 Ver. 7.x **Gaming?**

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Anyone else interested in seeing Linus test how this old motherboard holds up with current games?

 

I have 4 if you want to give it a shot! 

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Holy shit, I wasn't even aware that Socket 478 with a PCIe slot existed.

 

That being said, can you even run a modern OS on them without major hacks?

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Put a GTX 1080 ti and let us see the definiton of bottleneck

33 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

Holy shit, I wasn't even aware that Socket 478 with a PCIe slot existed.

 

That being said, can you even run a modern OS on them without major hacks?

Me neither. But when you look at specs (and name) it has a G31 chipset, so the iGPU is supported by new OS, so it should work without any problems except, obviously, performance.

This thing probably is one of those models that were made to be sold as replacements, similar to "new" 775 motherboards that you can find for 60-70 $ in shops so the fun thing is that OP might have untouched boxes as they are probably leftovers

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36 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

Holy shit, I wasn't even aware that Socket 478 with a PCIe slot existed.

 

That being said, can you even run a modern OS on them without major hacks?

No need for hacks, I have one system sitting in a closet with Windows 7 Pro X86. I know there may be some issues with games running 32bit vs 64bit but would still be fun to see what this old setup can do.

 

7 minutes ago, Koneinuri said:

 

Put a GTX 1080 ti and let us see the definiton of bottleneck

Me neither. But when you look at specs (and name) it has a G31 chipset, so the iGPU is supported by new OS, so it should work without any problems except, obviously, performance.

This thing probably is one of those models that were made to be sold as replacements, similar to "new" 775 motherboards that you can find for 60-70 $ in shops so the fun thing is that OP might have untouched boxes as they are probably leftovers

Right! I actually do have 1 unopened box left. I purchased 5 of these from I believe newegg to replace older dell pcs that couldn't use the newer DDR2 standard/speed of this time.

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Do you still have those motherboards the G31-M4 socket 478 ?

 

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