Brand new motherboard without PCI express?

[Rubix]

Hi
I am thinking of buying a new ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard for my
Pentium 4 chip with HT as I fried the old board. But does it make any sense
to go out now and buy something without PCI express? Should I wait a
couple of months?

Rubix

 

[Alvin Brown]

Hello

Well that's the new thing out know and really comes down
to weather you want to spend the money or not, as you know if your
using an 4x/8x agp card it won't work in that mother board, so keep
that in mind, the slots are different.

Alvin

 

[Jerry]

Why wait for months? Boards are out that have PCI express. Do a Google
search.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

As far as I know, you couldn't use your P4 in a PCI Express mainboard.

I'm unaware of any PCI Express boards that use Socket 478 (like the P4C800)
for the P4. PCIE boards normally use Socket T (LGA 775).

If you want the highest-performance PCIE board for a P4, you might also need
new RAM: board based on the Intel 925 chipset usually require DDR2.

Even if they don't do business where you are, take a quick look at
www.newegg.com. They don't sell every conceivable mainboard. but they have a
convenient selector that will allow you to mix and match features. (For
example: they show a number of 915 boards with both a PCIE16 graphics slot
and an AGP one.)

Good luck.

Bob Knowlden

Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[zibby]

Like others said, switching to new PCI Express will cost more $$
new CPU, memory, video card and mobo
I would stick to older system and get ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
I have same mobo and I'm happy with it (don't play games but used heavy for
video editing)
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe is best $hit you can get for P4 HT

 

[Rubix]

Thanks all,
I'm satisfied now that I really don't need to take the express.

Rubix

 

[Rubix]

Hi Bob,
I discovered Asus P5GD2 Premium Wireless that seems a possible candidate
for the job, i havent looked too closely at the specs as I've already
decided not to bother.

Rubix

 

[zibby]

and performance you get is... well hard to notice
I just built my system, and has second thoughts about going to PCI Express
(after I got mobo and video card)
but again new system is all I need (a jump from P4 1.5GHz)