Recommendation for Socket 478 Board

narrasuj · Post by **narrasuj** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:38 pm

Hey all, I'm on the market for a socket 478 board (I've already got a P4 Northwood 2.8 from my previous desktop). The cases I'm considering are either the P180 or P150 (more towards the P150 for the HD suspension, but I've already got a Zalman PS that I'd like to use). I've already got a Ninja, I'd just need to find a quieter 120mm fan, I was thinking a Yate Loon. Also, are S478 mobos available with SATA? Thanks for any/all recommendations!

josephclemente · Post by **josephclemente** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:12 pm

My Northwood 3.0C is running with a $39.99 PC Chips P25G motherboard from Newegg. It has SATA and I haven't had any problems with it.

JazzJackRabbit · Post by **JazzJackRabbit** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:52 pm

865 chipset have SATA support built in so many motherboards come with 2 sata ports. If you want more that's going to be a problem though as very few feature on board sata raid.

As for specific recommendation it depends on what do you want from the motherboard. For my main PC I have P4P800 which is an excellent motherboard, it has GigaBit lan and 2 sata ports. For my fileserver I have aopen 865gm-il which is a very nice micro-atx motherboard with everything integrated, audio, video, gigabit lan and 2 sata ports. Just about the only thing it's missing is firewire which is a pity.

JimX · Post by **JimX** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:00 am

There is one Asus board that is perfect.

Try finding it though.

winguy · Post by **winguy** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:18 am

JimX wrote:There is one Asus board that is perfect.

Try finding it though.

So there're Socket 478 915-chipset boards too. Any other such boards besides Asus?

derekva · Post by **derekva** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:06 pm

I've made the switch to AMD, but when I was running a 2.4GHz Northwood, I was very happy with the Intel D865-PERLboard for around $100.00. It comes with onboard AC97 audio, Firewire, SATA RAID (0, 1) and integrated 10/100 (sorry, no gigabit). It says a lot about the board that I'm going to be upgrading my parents' PC with the P4 2.4 / D865-PERL combination, (since I don't want to be making tech support trips from Seattle to Portland on a weekly basis). Whatever your specific issues are with Intel (unfair business practices, anyone?) it's still one hell of a reliable board.

For the record, I used a Ninja on it with no issues whatsoever.

-Derek

narrasuj · Post by **narrasuj** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:46 pm

I'm just looking for a well featured board so I can upgrade my computer, in general. Are there any 478 boards that support PCI-Express? Current vid card is a 9800 Pro with the Artic Cooling Silencer on it, was thinking of upgrading to something more powerful (tho nothing excessive). If not, I'll just use this build to really learn the details of building a silent (or very quiet) PC and completely upgrade next time. Either way, current PC makes too much noise (mostly wind noise from the single 120mm fan on the Ninja and hard drive)

JJ · Post by JJ » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:19 pm

narrasuj wrote:Hey all, I'm on the market for a socket 478 board (I've already got a P4 Northwood 2.8 from my previous desktop). The cases I'm considering are either the P180 or P150 (more towards the P150 for the HD suspension, but I've already got a Zalman PS that I'd like to use). I've already got a Ninja, I'd just need to find a quieter 120mm fan, I was thinking a Yate Loon. Also, are S478 mobos available with SATA? Thanks for any/all recommendations!

I have a P4 3.0 Northwood on an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe that I couldn't be happier with. (Actually, I have two - one at work and one at home). I have 1GB of ECC ram on both machines and they're far and away the most stable systems that I've ever used. The motherboard has SATA headers and includes onboard RAID as well.

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3 ... odelmenu=1

At home I'm in the process of building an Athlon 64 X2 system, and will probably turn the current P4 system into a music/file server. I just hope it's 1/2 as stable as the P4 system. I wish it supported ECC, as I've become a firm believer in its benefits despite the slight speed penalty.

dddibley · Post by **dddibley** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:56 pm

We have a pair of ASUS P4P800 SE boards (865PE, AGP) with Celeron D330 (2667) and P4 3.0E. First one ran flawless for a couple of years so bought another. They have most of the modern features.. 2xSATA, RAID, GigaLAN, Dual Channel DDR etc. It's the lesser version of the P4P800 Deluxe.

ddd

Sparkytfl · Post by **Sparkytfl** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:21 pm

I had the p4p800 deluxe for about two years. Totally stable. The system crashed maybe five times in those two years, and each time was from me playing new games without updating my graphics drivers, so not the board's fault.

JimX · Post by **JimX** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:29 am

Damn, this thread had me thinking about the future and my Northwood, so I found this and got one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 6850395937

Jim

Now I'm excited and sad...

victri · Post by **victri** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:19 am

I'm running a 2.4B Northwood on a MSI 865PE Neo2-PLS. Very nice passive board with a lot of features, but only SATA 1.5 and no PCI-e.

Like you, I do consider upgrading, but I think it'll be more bang for the buck to get a new CPU and mobo. Maybe a 3800+.

Recommendation for Socket 478 Board

Recommendation for Socket 478 Board

If you are using a P4, it's hard to go wrong with Intel MBs

Looking to upgrade the entire PC

Re: Recommendation for Socket 478 Board