Asus P4P800Deluxe!!!
I have one and it's rock solid. I'm running a P4 2.4C at 3.2 GHz and dual
channel DDR. It sees a lot of use rendering video so I get a lot of extra
mileage out of the cheap 2.4 GHz CPU thanks to this motherboard.
www.xbitlabs.com has a very good overclocking article on the P4 2.4C and the
Asus P4P800 Deluxe was their reference testbed board. Which is why I bought
one, and I wasn't disappointed.
--Keith
Matt wrote:
> Hi--I'm hoping that some experienced builders can recommend some
> possibilities for a P4 motherboard for me. I've looked around a bit,
> especially using the search features and reviews at newegg, but I'm
> still kind of bewildered. Especially I need help with the properties
> that don't show up in the spec sheets, such as reliability,
> compatibility, and OC capacity. I may not be buying right away, so I
> would be grateful for news of boards to be released soon, but
> mostly I'm interested in known successes. Thanks. --Matt
>
> Primary requirements:
>
> * Reliability, stability.
> * Compatibility with run-of-the-mill components, especially ordinary RAM
> sticks like Kingston, Crucial, PNY, etc.
> * Full functionality under Linux and XP, hopefully with easy setup
> * P4 Hyper-Threading support
> * Dual Channel DDR support
> * Single Channel DDR support
> * At least 5 PCI slots (or 4 PCI slots + Onboard LAN)
> * Good provision for moderate overclocking (say 10% to 25% speedup)
> * General ability to overclock without changing speed of PCI bus
> * AGP slot
> * Price under $125
>
> Optional features:
>
> * Price under $100
> * Support for DDR400
> * 4 DDR slots
> * 6 PCI slots and onboard LAN
> * Onboard gigabit LAN
> * IDE RAID 1
> * SATA
> * Onboard video
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