Topic awaiting preservation: Which? Motherboard

any ideas on which MoBo I should go for, every review i have read seems to conflict - figures.

i wish for
2.8 P4 HT compatable
800 FSB
400 DDR

I want something with intergrated GPU, i dont do 3d or games. I have a high end sound card so no worries there.

any recs.

I doubt that you'll find a decent P4 motherboard with integrated GPU (all motherboards with integrated GPU are plain crap IMHO). So, I would suggest you to get ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard - you won't regret it...

http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum1/HTML/008183.html



A previouse thread on a P4 MB.

My recomended P4 MB. May not be the best but it will certainly be in the top ten and I think it has the integrated video but I am not sure.

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Buying Suggestions
The Asus P4P800, equipped with the Intel 865PE chipset (Springdale), is a very copetitive motherboard out performing the more expensive Canterwood chipset due to some MB specific tweaks. Asus is a good company and I have seen their boards do long term heavy workloads with no problems.
A P4 2.8 with hyperthreading is the best money to performance CPU from Intel.
DDR RAM is dirt cheap so why not get 2x512?

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[This message has been edited by tj333 (edited 01-13-2004).]

integrated GPU is just nasty.

And the P4P800 delux is a nice board... I just got one a month or so back, and I love it.

pardon... I thought he misspelled it...

what's GPU?

...video card?


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GPU-Graphics Processing Unit
A fancy way of saying the chip in the graphics card that makes the pictures. When they first started using it it was mostly a buzzword but with the newer programable GPUs calling it a Process Unit and as such saying it is on par with a CPU is justified.
Also APU-Audio Processing Unit, still just a buzzword.

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yeah, that's what I thought when everyone started talking about it...


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Well thanks for the advice chaps, i took mr max's and i really dont regret it.

All the parts arrived on Friday, by saturday i had myself a rather nice

P4 2.8c HT 800FSB
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
Suntek STK 6303 CASE
2 X PAIRED CORSAIR TWINX1024 PC3200 C2 Platinum baddies i wanted the pc4000 tho
MSI 5200 128
2 x thermal take smart fans.

On the shopping list i still have

3x SATA Raptor HDD's - want to raid these baddies up - raid5 i think

anyway thanks - she rocks



[This message has been edited by FatRod (edited 02-16-2004).]

I have the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe in my work computer and it has performed flawlessly for the past year that I've had it...no complaints here!