Gigabyte GA-8IPE-1000-G Supported CPUs?

[Will]

I am about to build a machine based on a motherboard I bought some time
ago. The board states that it is P4 socket 478. (Gigabyte
GA-8IPE-1000-G)
Although I have searched for supported CPU's on the Gigabyte website it
lists items such as :

Intel P4-Extreme 3.0G
Intel P4-Northwood 3.4G
Intel P4-Willamette 2.0G
P4-Prescott-Celeron D 3.06G

Now, I may be missing something but the described CPUs seem very hard
to get hold of and expensive. Can anyone shed some light on this for
me. I plan to build a decent system for home use but it need not be
cutting edge although I assume that the Celeron is the "poor relation"
to the others?

Any assistance or direction would be highly appreciated.

Will

 

[Michael Hawes]

I am about to build a machine based on a motherboard I bought some time
ago. The board states that it is P4 socket 478. (Gigabyte
GA-8IPE-1000-G)
Although I have searched for supported CPU's on the Gigabyte website it
lists items such as :

Intel P4-Extreme 3.0G
Intel P4-Northwood 3.4G
Intel P4-Willamette 2.0G
P4-Prescott-Celeron D 3.06G

Now, I may be missing something but the described CPUs seem very hard
to get hold of and expensive. Can anyone shed some light on this for
me. I plan to build a decent system for home use but it need not be
cutting edge although I assume that the Celeron is the "poor relation"
to the others?

Any assistance or direction would be highly appreciated.

Will

If ot doesn't need to be cutting edge, the Celeron D is the way to go.
See
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Prod...lterMinPrice=&FilterMaxPrice=&FilterKeywords=

Mike.

 

[Muttley]

I am about to build a machine based on a motherboard I bought some time
ago. The board states that it is P4 socket 478. (Gigabyte
GA-8IPE-1000-G)
Although I have searched for supported CPU's on the Gigabyte website it
lists items such as :

Intel P4-Extreme 3.0G
Intel P4-Northwood 3.4G
Intel P4-Willamette 2.0G
P4-Prescott-Celeron D 3.06G

Now, I may be missing something but the described CPUs seem very hard
to get hold of and expensive. Can anyone shed some light on this for
me. I plan to build a decent system for home use but it need not be
cutting edge although I assume that the Celeron is the "poor relation"
to the others?

Any assistance or direction would be highly appreciated.

Will

If you have already collected/purchased the rest of the components for the
system to match this board, a S-478 Celeron D would be the easiest/cheapest
option, or perhaps look for a suitable second hand S-478 P4 CPU on e-Bay.
Celeron D's perform pretty well, considering the price.

If you currently only have the board itself, I would forget the idea of
building up a new system with it.
As you have found, Socket 478 is obsolete + rare, as too are AGP and DDR for
new systems.
Sell it on e-Bay or elsewhere.

You will then have the luxury of picking any CPU(Intel or AMD) and
motherboard combination that your heart desires, and will also be able to
get a motherboard that uses more current technologies. eg. DDR2,
PCI-Express, SATA2, Socket-775(Intel) or Socket-939(AMD).

Cheers,

John S.

 

[Jonny]

I am about to build a machine based on a motherboard I bought some time
ago. The board states that it is P4 socket 478. (Gigabyte
GA-8IPE-1000-G)
Although I have searched for supported CPU's on the Gigabyte website it
lists items such as :

Intel P4-Extreme 3.0G
Intel P4-Northwood 3.4G
Intel P4-Willamette 2.0G
P4-Prescott-Celeron D 3.06G

Now, I may be missing something but the described CPUs seem very hard
to get hold of and expensive. Can anyone shed some light on this for
me. I plan to build a decent system for home use but it need not be
cutting edge although I assume that the Celeron is the "poor relation"
to the others?

Any assistance or direction would be highly appreciated.

Will

Recently put together a system using the Pro-G version of same motherboard.
I went with a Prescott P4 2.4 GHz cpu that I found reasonable in price.
Onboard 1MB cache and the fact that is a Pentium vice Celeron suaded my
decision to this cpu.
What I found I didn't like:
Motherboard didn't ship with HT capable bios, even though its stated to
support same and showed picture of its in its bios details. Latest version
bios (F5) doesn't have it either. At the location of the stated HT
disabling/enabling in the bios setup, was an disabling/enabling the disk
signature length.
Bios is flaky regarding a pure ide/PATA devices and no SATA. Be sure to
disable all regarding SATA in the bios in this case. There's more than one
instance in different areas of the bios.
After purchasing, and before receiving, realized there was no mention of
firewire or SATA internal cabling for onboard connection of same. Use
firewire alot, this concerned me. The 18 pin firewire block on the
motherboard, to my consternation, could not find a cable connector for same
in searching for same. To my relief, found all this came with the
motherboard upon receipt except the 10 pin firewire internal port connector.
This can be found online for purchase at some sites.
Couldn't get an old LS-120 to work in 120MB mode, only 3.5" floppy mode.
Worked fine in prior motherboard. Was causing a bogus and inaccessible
drive letter that bumped up all subsequent drive letters in 98SE/ME. XP
never saw this.
There's more, but, getting to lengthy here.