Suggestions On a new MOBO

[CrazyCrusher]

hey guys/gals.

I im thinking of upping my Mobo and would like to Suggestions on what would be a good board to get, the PC is mainly for gamming, it will be running with a P4 1.6 for now but will be also upgrading that to a 2.4, ram will be PC2100 DDR also to be 2700. Video Card is a TI4600 HDD's 2X80 GIG WD 7200 CD-RW CD-ROM,

would be grand to get some Suggestions of u guys/gals if any :)

[L8NightHype]

IC7-G (http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=4) or IC7 (http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=5)

(400MHz FSB not supported)


:x

[BipolarBill]

If the 1.6 is a 100/400MHz CPU, you'll have to get an 845PE motherboard. There are many good ones. The Asus P4PE is a fine board.

[CrazyCrusher]

I couldnt think of the name of that board for the life of me Bill, someone told me about it b4 but I couldnt remember it, thats the one i was looking for anyway, thnks a mill, I need a new head, I think im getting old, do you think this board will improve game play? the board thats being trashed is from a Dell 4400? thanks again for your info bill, thats two board your recomended to me now, should open your own info store eh :) have a good one.

[deadkenny]

I believe Intel is planning on a 2.4GHz P4 at 800MHz FSB and with Hyperthreading. So you might want to hold off just a bit and look at getting that on a 865 / 875 chipset board. Otherwise the 845PE is probably your best bet. Go with an Intel board if you just want stability and have no plans to OC. If you want to have more 'tweaking' features, then the ASUS P4PE would be a good choice.

[missiveusa]

Yes, hold off buying the 845PE chipset board just yet, if for nothing else the price will drop as the 875 chipset becomes available.

If you're buying online, stick with newegg, mwave, googlegear, or any other reliable, proven vendor. The pennies you might save using someone else aren't worth the worry.

[BipolarBill]

Anything over the 845PE board (other than a SiS chipset) will require that you buy a CPU and motherboard at the same time.

It's your call.

[deadkenny]

If that's a 1.6A, he could probably run it OC'd at 133MHz FSB (aka 533) rather than the default 100 (400). Otherwise, yes, he'll need a new board and processor at the same time.

[L8NightHype]

I got the 2.4 for $185. Here is it dropping P4-2.4/800 (http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80646-800)

Free 2 day shipping is always nice...

[BipolarBill]

Suhweet! :)

[CrazyCrusher]

nice price dude.

but i think ill take the ASUS for now, money really is not a problem, but i will be handing the comp to my lil guy, but not the TI4600 :) hell know, if the ASUS has some nice over clocking and is pretty good to work with ill take Bills word for it, if it dont work out Bill will give me a new one :) j/k, I have doen some reading on it and it does sound like a pretty good board, my lil guy is into the games, he is 12 years old and he knows whats good graphics and what runs fast, I thought him to good i think. but anyways Ill take the ASUS, I should be upgrading within the next 3 weeks, or maybe ill hold of for the new Chipset :)

[DMohler]

L8NightHype hit on the head. The ABIT boards are some fast boards!

[ch0wdy^]

Wow... the Athlon XP 2400+ is half that price. Does it compare with the 2.4ghz P4 performance wise?

(no flame wars people)

[CompGeek01]

Really depends on the application. I'm an AMD fan through and through, but no, normally a P4 2.4 will edge out an XP2400+ in benchmarks...

There are plenty of threads arguing this i'm sure.

Now back to your current thread:

-B

[Izdaari]

Originally posted by ch0wdy^
Wow... the Athlon XP 2400+ is half that price. Does it compare with the 2.4ghz P4 performance wise?

(no flame wars people) Here's another thing to look at. The 2400+ and P4 2.4 are very closely matched, too close for it to matter in real world apps, only in benchmarks, though I would say the 2.4C has the edge. But the Athlon is half the price. Ok, to me that means the Athlon wins that comparison by a large margin in terms of cost-effectiveness.

Fine, here's another way of looking at them: What do you get when you forget buying to a specific speed and instead buy a specific $$ amount of CPU? For example, suppose I say I don't care whether it's Intel or AMD, I just want the fastest CPU I can get for under $200. That buys me an Athlon 2800+ Barton for $178 retail, or a P4 2.4C for the same $178 retail (New Egg prices). Ok, who wins that comparison?

[bushmaster]

[Edited to prevent an escalation - a question was asked about AMD vs. Intel and an answer was given. This is not "thread-crapping"]

Crazy Crusher, If your P4 1.6 is a northwood than the MSI 865PE NEO2 would be a good choice as when you do get to upgrading you'll be all set with a board that can handle what you have now and later be able to take DDR400 memory and the newer 800Mhz FSB P4's.

[bushmaster]

The original thread creator never asked anything at all about AMD vs Intel in the 1st thread or his following posts.
Others hopped in and suggested that AMD had more bang for the buck which had nothing to do with the thread creators questions.

If you read the entire thread rather than focusing in on trying to make me look bad you'd see what I was talking about.

[BipolarBill]

If you're going to blame anyone, blame chowdy - he asked.

Leave the moderating to us, ok?

[bushmaster]

I wasnt moderating. I was complaining about people turning a question about which Intel based board to buy into how AMD RULEZ. Other folks have complained about thread crapping and werent edited. There was no abusive language in my post.

Read the post right before the 1st one of mine that was edited.

[BipolarBill]

Stop keeping freakin' score. No one seems to care but you. If you keep that up, you will be the cause of the strife.