Motherboard Recommendations?
DOOManiac
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
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<div class="IPBDescription">:( I'm getting desperate</div>Well.. last night my new 6800GT started acting up too. :(
So now Its gotta be motherboard incompatibility, or needing to tweak some options my motherboard just doesn't have... :X
So I need a new mobo. Any recommendations?
Here are my requirements:
1) Must work with my P4 533FSB 2.4B cpu, as I won't be upgrading CPUs right now. If 800FSB boards are backwards compatible that's a plus as I may buy a 800FSB CPU in the future, but just not right now.
2) Must accept 4 sticks o PC2100. Again, if it can do faster yet is backwards compatible, that's fine too.
3) Dual Channel DDR a definate plus.
Any recommendations?
So now Its gotta be motherboard incompatibility, or needing to tweak some options my motherboard just doesn't have... :X
So I need a new mobo. Any recommendations?
Here are my requirements:
1) Must work with my P4 533FSB 2.4B cpu, as I won't be upgrading CPUs right now. If 800FSB boards are backwards compatible that's a plus as I may buy a 800FSB CPU in the future, but just not right now.
2) Must accept 4 sticks o PC2100. Again, if it can do faster yet is backwards compatible, that's fine too.
3) Dual Channel DDR a definate plus.
Any recommendations?
Comments
Also, the <a href='http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4v8x-x/overview.htm' target='_blank'>P4V8X-X</a> has a 533MHz FSB, DDR400 (PC3200) and AGP 8x. It uses a VIA chipset, and also has onboard sound, LAN, etc (no onboard graphics thankfully). This one also has SATA and built-in SATA RAID.
Neither of them have dual-channel DDR support however, and none I could find have PC2100 RAM (although PC2700 slots will still work with PC2100 RAM)
A 200MHz FSB (FSB800) would probably not work, since Intel CPUs have their multipliers locked. Right now, your chip has a multiplier of 18 (18 * 133 = 2.4 GHz) since your FSB is 133MHz (FSB533). However, If I understand this right, that multiplier would be applied to the new FSB and you'd have the CPU attempting to run somewhere around 3.6 GHz, which as you can imagine would probably not have the best results.
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I, myself, am a Leadtek man, as my ti4400 and FX5900 from them both work flawlessly. You'd have to wait till the <a href='http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-122-195&depa=0' target='_blank'>9th of august</a>, though.
If you can believe the reviewers, it runs very cool and can be overclocked a good bit.
It also appears to only use one PSU molex connector.
Onboard 6-dual channle audio, Realtek 100MBPS lan. Very sexy. As a matter of fact I'm sinking in an Athlon XP 3200+ in a few weeks for it <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> (I currently have 2700+)
Might not fit your case though, 6 PCI slots <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Might not fit your case though, 6 PCI slots <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Meh, A case only costs 50$ max. Doesn't tyan make the support things that hold thier bigger mobo's into your computer anyways? a 4CPU 16ram slot mobo isn't going to fit in anyone's case by default...
eh? i never knew PCI-X slots were so small.
anyway, that thing couldn't run two 6800Ultra's in SLI mode, no spaces :/
eh? i never knew PCI-X slots were so small.
anyway, that thing couldn't run two 6800Ultra's in SLI mode, no spaces :/ <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
SLI cards are ment to be side by side, they space the same distance that a normal PCI slot spaces...
eh? i never knew PCI-X slots were so small.
anyway, that thing couldn't run two 6800Ultra's in SLI mode, no spaces :/ <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
SLI cards are ment to be side by side, they space the same distance that a normal PCI slot spaces... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
the 6800Ultra needs two slots, so one of them would cover up both slots
youll have a hard time finding a board that supports fsb800/ddr400 AND four ram slots though, very hard. most have two or three ram slots because of the sheer number of wires that each stick of ram has to run back to the chipset, manufacturing costs skyrocket at four or more sticks of ram.
note: you always want to buy top-end of motherboards to ensure upgradability a year or two from now. because of that i reccomend the board that is the newest of the p4-capable boards. <a href='http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4c800-e_d/overview.HTM' target='_blank'>http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/..._d/overview.HTM</a>
oo, it does have four ddr slots, tasty.
"Supports up to 32GB of Reg. DDR"
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"Supports up to 32GB of Reg. DDR"
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<!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> indeed. The 4 AMD processors and the 4xPCI-X slots aren't to crappy either...