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General discussion

P4 board

Sep 27, 2004 6:33AM PDT

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Re: P4 board/all I can offer
Sep 27, 2004 9:55PM PDT

I just put one in an ASUS P4C800E Deluxe and have had no problems. It's been loaded w/XP Pro and I am trying to break it before activating the OS. I have put 2 other P4 (Northwood cores) into ASUS P4 series cards and no problems yet. I can vouch for these boards if they have the features you like. I stay away from their on board sound, however. The network interface works well.

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Re: P4 board
Sep 28, 2004 3:32AM PDT

Eric, the discussion for the choice of an ideal motherboard will be endless. Before you decide what you think is the ideal mobo, please consider the following:
1. Is it branded or produced by a manufacturer who will vanish after two years?
2. Upgrade possibilities?
3. Hardware compatibilities?
4. Compatibility with a dual type processor (socket 478 or flat type whatever applies)
5. Reservation for SDRAM/DDRAM/PCI/AGP sockets.
6. Memory upgrade or addition possibilites.
7. Power supply, housing requirement and open choice for substitute possibilites.
8. After sales Service support.
9. BIOS upgrade support.
10. Caching
There may be many choices to select, and yet the choice is yours. do make some browsing or inquiries about mobo's, and yet ASUS works just fine. I am using a generic mother board but had been using it for two years with minimal compatibility and upgrade issues.