Dream P4 HT/DualDDR mobo--Help me find it.

M

Matt

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
 
K

Keith Clark

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
 
M

Matt

Keith said:
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.
Click to expand...

That sounds like great overclocking! Now my big question is about what
RAM sticks you are using ...
 

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