Best Motherboards
 

Looking at building a new box for my office, with a Intel Pentium 4 processor at 3.0GHz w/ 800FSB - what are your recommendations for the best motherboards to use?

Thx! :thumbsup

Anyone... Anyone?

Bueller... Bueller?

I wasnt going to toss my two cents in but since no one else has responded I'll say what I have to say, contradictory though it might be. :)

Personally I'm an AMD fan. I believe in paying for the better price/performance ratio and AMD always wins in that category. Yes yes, the P4 is faster, there's no denying that, but in terms of getting what you pay for I'm firmly in favor of AMD equipment.

That said, in lieu of not knowing where youve looked already I'll recommend Toms Hardware and AnandTech. I've found all my hardware thanks to their in-depth reviews. Totally complete and only marginally biased.

Thanks for the feedback, and especially the links. I am not an AMD hater. :winkwink:

giga-byte.com :)

Thx! Any specific model or chipset?

i use the gigabyte 865pe titan, but its a year old now.
you should check out the top end ASUS boards too.

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Thx :thumbsup

actually the new amd chip is the fastest chip out there. faster than any intel chip right now.

http://anandtech.com/ always has very good info on all this stuff.

ASUS boards rock!! :thumbsup

Great info! Thx all! :thumbsup

Actually, I didnt want to be too specific but since people are pretty firmly on this bandwagon I'll be more complete... Giga-Byte does have some of the best boards available, the difference is that a GB board has *everything* onboard and you pay for it. The chips they use are good quality and good support but you pay for the all-in-one nature of the beast.

I own an Asus A7N8X-X mobo. It uses the new NVidia NForce 200 chipset which has the 400MHz FSB (plenty fast for 90% of users) when you use an Athlon XP 2400 (or 2600, maybe) or above. These boards are dual-channel whith AGP 8x slots like they should. Toss in some PC3200 RAM (400Mhz) and youre golden.

These are good products that run VERY solidly and have great reps. They're over-clockable and tweakable and reliable.

ASUS P4C800 delux if you have the cash
good board!

I have that board too. It's fantastic.

Thx Guys! :)

The newest ones are usually listed on the main page they have everything tho virtually every chipset for intel and amd then go to pricegrabber.com and search for the best price :)

I just picked up the ASUS P4P800 Deluxe a week or so ago. (Put it in the case tonight. :winkwink: ) It seems to do most everything for the P4s, 800Mhz FSB, handles Serial ATA drives, has RAID 0 + 1 built in, holds up to 4GB RAM, etc. Haven't got to use it yet, but for around $125, it seems like a pretty good value.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...=BROWSE&depa=1

Asus P4C-800 E Deluxe.