Which motherboard?

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Bill Hoppy Haupt

Hi. I am building a new system to replace an aging PIII. I was going to
use the P4PEX with the 2.6 PIV until I started reading about the cold
boot problem with this board. I am now considering the P4P800 as an
alternative, although I would still like to use the P4PEX is I can. Does
anyone have any opinions on this? Also can I use my 32 MB nvidia TNT 2
card with the P4P800 even though this board has an 8X AGP? I will only
be using this computer for Internet and word processing.
 
Hi. I am building a new system to replace an aging PIII. I was going to
use the P4PEX with the 2.6 PIV until I started reading about the cold
boot problem with this board. I am now considering the P4P800 as an
alternative, although I would still like to use the P4PEX is I can. Does
anyone have any opinions on this? Also can I use my 32 MB nvidia TNT 2
card with the P4P800 even though this board has an 8X AGP? I will only
be using this computer for Internet and word processing.
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These postings say TNT2 is "on the edge" with respect to 1.5V operation.
Some cards are correctly keyed and some are not. This makes reuse of
your card a little dangerous (as in roulette). Maybe some Googling, using
the card maker/model number will uncover more info.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&[email protected]

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&[email protected]

A fairly cheap, low performance video card, would be the MX440 or the
FX5200. Both of these can be found in configurations that use passive
cooling, so they won't waste a lot of electricity. The FX5200 supports
a later version of DirectX and that is its main benefit. (The performance
level is in the same ballpark.) I think these cards come in RAM
configurations either 64 bits wide or 128 bits wide (4 video ram chips or
8 video ram chips respectively) and you'll get slightly more performance
from a full height card with eight chips on it.

For more info on motherboards, you could try a search on abxzone.com.
Here is an example found using P4PEX.

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=51394

Based on that posting, I think I'd choose a P4P800.

HTH,
Paul
 
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