Opinions on P4 motherboard

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I'm upgrading my computer with a new motherboard, cpu, memory and video
card. I'm not into gaming and I don't want to overclock, but do play a lot
of videos. Mainly I just want something I'm not going to have to upgrade for
at least 3-4 years so I want fairly high-end stuff. So far this is what I'm
looking for in a motherboard and cpu:

P4 3.2Ghz 800fsb
Socket 478 P-4 (800Mhz of course)
i875 chipset
Hyper Threading support
Dual channel DDR 400 ECC
Serial ATA
USB 2.0 ports
AGP 8x slot
Sound
Ethernet
Firewire

The last three are not particularly important but it would be nice to have
(I have plenty of 100Mb ethernet cards laying about and don't have any
firewire devices). By far my biggest concern is stability, so I want a
really solid board. RAID 0 would be nice if it will noticably increase
performance, otherwise I'm not interested (I have no problem buying two
smaller drives instead of one large one if it increases performance). I plan
on using my old 45GB drive for backups. I haven't decided for sure, but may
get a dual video card to run two LCD monitors. Any suggestions or comments?
 
Slacker said:
I'm upgrading my computer with a new motherboard, cpu, memory and video
card. I'm not into gaming and I don't want to overclock, but do play a lot
of videos. Mainly I just want something I'm not going to have to upgrade for
at least 3-4 years so I want fairly high-end stuff. So far this is what I'm
looking for in a motherboard and cpu:

P4 3.2Ghz 800fsb
Socket 478 P-4 (800Mhz of course)
i875 chipset
Hyper Threading support
Dual channel DDR 400 ECC
Serial ATA
USB 2.0 ports
AGP 8x slot
Sound
Ethernet
Firewire

The last three are not particularly important but it would be nice to have
(I have plenty of 100Mb ethernet cards laying about and don't have any
firewire devices). By far my biggest concern is stability, so I want a
really solid board. RAID 0 would be nice if it will noticably increase
performance, otherwise I'm not interested (I have no problem buying two
smaller drives instead of one large one if it increases performance). I plan
on using my old 45GB drive for backups. I haven't decided for sure, but may
get a dual video card to run two LCD monitors. Any suggestions or comments?
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Did you take the Asus P4C800 Deluxe into consideration?

http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4C800 Deluxe&langs=01

It should fulfill all your requirements.

Roy
 
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DaveW said:
P4 motherboards generally do NOT use ECC memory.
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What a silly comment. He is looking for hardware with that
reliability factor, not for boards with memory unreliability built
in.
 
I haven't really looked at specific boards yet, I'm still gathering my
requirements. That looks like a good board at a good price though.
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You've got an Intel chip...get an Intel board.

Best for compatibility.


Have a nice week...

Trent©

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