Motherboard/processor speed

[nichan7]

Hi guys/gals!

I have a question regarding the asus p4pe mobo and the asus p4g8x mobo. I'm considering getting one of these mobo's and was wondering what's the fastest speed (processors) these mobo can handle? and how much longer is intel going to stick with the 478 chip configuration? i want to buy a good mobo that can handle upgrades down the line (1-2 years)..are there any other mobo that are good for future upgrades??

Thanks!!!



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[BipolarBill]

Originally posted by nichan7
how much longer is intel going to stick with the 478 chip configuration? i want to buy a good mobo that can handle upgrades down the line (1-2 years)..are there any other mobo that are good for future upgrades??You had better wait then - both AMD and Intel will be moving to new form factors soon.

Those motherboards will accept all Socket 478 CPUs.

[deadkenny]

I believe Intel will stick with 478 for a bit longer, but then who can be sure. Intel doesn't exactly have a great record of making new processors compatible with older mobos. I've heard that they will be 'leap frogging' right past 166MHz to come out with 200MHz FSB processors, and certainly neither the PE nor Granite Bay officially support that.

[BipolarBill]

I'm 90% sure that the upcoming Prescott is like 700 pins.

[missiveusa]

At least AMD will be staying with the 462 Socket A configuration through the Barton core. Socket A's had a very nice run. Nothing Intel has released even comes close.

[causticVapor]

Which is good. You could have gotten a duron 600 years ago and it would still work in a brand-new socket a mobo.

The thing I really despised intel for was their seemingly unnecessary and intentional pin rearrangment three times for s370. First, for the mendocino celeron, then the coppermine, then, tualatin. And mendochinos don't exactly work in tualatin boards. :rolleyes:

And there's always a chance that a resistor mod goes awry, overlooking the inconvenience of having to do such.

What would most people do without companies like powerleap :rolleyes:

[causticVapor]

Originally posted by BipolarBill
I'm 90% sure that the upcoming Prescott is like 700 pins.

I'm hearing that Intel might not make it have an integrated memory controller as speculated. Even if that is the case, they'll probably still switch some pins around.:rolleyes:

[negitivex]

Intel going past 166Mhz? Is that FSB? thats x4 right? for thier quad technology or whatever?

[nichan7]

thanks for the replys!!

i'm still not sure what to do...go with one of the 1 mobo's i mentioned above, or go with amd?!?!?:confused: and i noticed that amd has stuck with their socket A config for a long time, and i'm wondering how much longer it can last?!?!?...what do you guys think? this computer is mainly going to be used for audio mixing and gaming..

Thanks again!!

[negitivex]

Well from what the future looks like, I'd say not to get anything right now, since both look like they are going to come out with new sockets soon.

Also has anyone thought that maybe intel comes up with so many revolutionary designs that they need to make new sockets/slots? Perhaps Socket 7's couldn't be used for Pentium 3's and then they came up with something new for p3's and needed socket 370. I dunno just ranting, don't take this seriously.

[Rugor]

It wasn't the change from socket 7 to socket 370 that annoyed us. It was the THREE different incompatible versions of socket 370.

[deadkenny]

Absolutely! There was the slot format between socket 7 and socket 370. That was related to the 'migration' of the L2 cache from the mobo, to a card along with the processor to on die, so that progression was forgivable. What was unforgivable IMHO was making the Tualatin incompatible with the earlier 'Coppermine' boards. Intel went out of their way to do so, since there's very little doubt that they could have make the Tualatin such that it would run on older boards.