New Motherboard Reccomendation? Please help!

[KGB-911]

Hey all,

I managed to test my processor in a local computer shop for free. it turns out that the processor and RAM are fine.

This leaves the Motherboard.

I am going to buy a new one as this is the seccond time model this one has died.

Requirements:

• Pentium 4 (socket 478) up to 3.6GHz (800 & 533 FSB) (with HT support)
• AGP 8x (& 4x)
• 4 Rear USB 2.0 & support for 4 more.
• Onboard Sound & Frontal sound ports. (i need the rear and front speaker ports to both work)
• IEEE 1394 (Firewire)
• DDR 400 RAM (up to 3-4GB) (dual channel)
• SATA (x2)
• Onboard LAN

Basically i want a motherboard with EXACTALLY the same specs as the Giga Byte GA-8S655FX-L but i do NOT want this motherboard for a 3rd time.

Any suggestions welcome

Must be less than £70.00

Thanks,

KGB

 

[muckshifter]

Pick one from Intel.

 

[psd99]

id still stick to Abit or Asuz KGB!

 

[itsme]

Try this
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...&order=ASC&keywords=&show=stock&Filter=Filter

 

[KGB-911]

Pick one from Intel.

Cheers Mucks, but none of the Socket 478 ones fit the description. the one with firewire only supports 2GB of RAM.

 

[KGB-911]

Got One!

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=65827

http://www.abit.com.tw/page/uk/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=IC7&fMTYPE=Socket 478

£75.02 + DEL.

What do you think? worth it or not?

thanks,

KGB

 

[Me__2001]

looks like a good board and its not a bad price either, the ones i've been looking at are around £80

 

[KGB-911]

I put in an order for that board from Dabs, but i will be able to cancel it at any time up until about thursday as it is out of stock.

 

[BaseLine9]

My Mate (It Manager) has got and IC7, He said he would recommend one, if you shop around there's a "Max" version you might be able to pick up at a decent price.

Check E-bay out

Otherwise the IC7, as you have found

 

[floppybootstomp]

Anything Asus, they make fine boards for Pentium chips.

 

[erebon]

Asus P4P800 series. Proved themselves quite nice!

 

[KGB-911]

My Mate (It Manager) has got and IC7, He said he would recommend one, if you shop around there's a "Max" version you might be able to pick up at a decent price.

Check E-bay out

Otherwise the IC7, as you have found

MAX is too expensive, and i only buy with warrenty seeing as my last board has been replaced and now it died again.

 

[Me__2001]

the P4P800 and P4C800 will only go up to 3.2Ghz CPU's,KGB if thats not a problem then get a P4C800 deluxe, i have one and its great