478 (northwood) PCIe mobo?

[PingSpike]

It sucks. You'd think we'd see more older boards with pci-e or at least some more agp/pci-e combo boards. The asrock seems like its going to be the only decent combo board to come out for socket 939, doesn't look like we'll see any combos for s754. Then you have intel stuff like this, where its perfectly reasonable to want to keep the old northwood (new stuff isn't that much better) and you just can't find a motherboard.

I guess its just growing pains from the interface change.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
It sucks. You'd think we'd see more older boards with pci-e or at least some more agp/pci-e combo boards. The asrock seems like its going to be the only decent combo board to come out for socket 939, doesn't look like we'll see any combos for s754. Then you have intel stuff like this, where its perfectly reasonable to want to keep the old northwood (new stuff isn't that much better) and you just can't find a motherboard.

I guess its just growing pains from the interface change.

Conspiracy! Against people with older CPU's! No, I'm not joking. Here in america, you cannot find an older socket mobo with PCIe. But, in europe....they are all over the place. That's the only way I can explain it. Intel/ATI getting together and not pushing it to be sold here. There is no doubt there is some demand. So if you want one of these, you gotta pay almost as much for shipping as you do for the product. This type of tactic is why I hate marketing.

 

[screwd01]

maybe we could set up a group buy thing....i would definitely get one.

my 2.4C@3.2 is still doing fine...but my 6800nu is falling behind

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

Originally posted by: PingSpike
It sucks. You'd think we'd see more older boards with pci-e or at least some more agp/pci-e combo boards. The asrock seems like its going to be the only decent combo board to come out for socket 939, doesn't look like we'll see any combos for s754. Then you have intel stuff like this, where its perfectly reasonable to want to keep the old northwood (new stuff isn't that much better) and you just can't find a motherboard.

I guess its just growing pains from the interface change.

Conspiracy! Against people with older CPU's! No, I'm not joking. Here in america, you cannot find an older socket mobo with PCIe. But, in europe....they are all over the place. That's the only way I can explain it. Intel/ATI getting together and not pushing it to be sold here. There is no doubt there is some demand. So if you want one of these, you gotta pay almost as much for shipping as you do for the product. This type of tactic is why I hate marketing.

Well its intels best interests not to sell those motherboards. If they don't, you're forced to buy a new cpu from them as well. Like I said, the northwood is still a very viable option. I'm sure a lot of people would keep them...so why not force them to buy new cpus while they upgrade their video card.

Hell its almost as bad in AMD land. But they did put out some pci-e s754 boards and there's the old asrock transitionary board so at least you're not totally out in the cold there.

 

[g00n]

I give up..... i'll just get a 7800gs and ride this bitch into the ground. I'm not going down w/out a fight damnit!

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: g00n
I give up..... i'll just get a 7800gs and ride this bitch into the ground. I'm not going down w/out a fight damnit!

that's basically what i did for my NW P4 rig. . . [x850xt] . . .

i'm riding it . . . now . . .

[relatively] cheap AGP upgrade makes sense
:thumbsup:
you're gonna LOVE the upgrade from a ti4600 . . . good for at least another year of gameing . . .

. . . now start saving for your next PCIe2 rig

 

[shabby]

Thought i'd bump this up, my albatron mobo just came in

 

[Auric]

I was considering the PX915P4C aboot four months ago when it was available for less than $100 shipped from either newegg or via eBay. Spending $140-160 now frankly seems nutty. Even more moolah expenditure will be required if the single IDE controller is insufficent (thus requiring a SATA to PATA adapter). However, the good news is that the mobo and top-end 478 CPU and AGP GPU's will surely hold their value relatively well (sold seperately). In retrospect I suppose I should have loaded up on a few mobos and scalped 'em I hope it works out well for you.

 

[shabby]

Ya it was a bit pricey, but since my main mobo i almost got for free and i can still sell it for around 100 bucks its not such a bad deal. The whole gpu/mobo/ram/cpu swap is pricey and thats what i wanted to avoid.
I only have 2 ide devices the rest are sata so i got kinda lucky, but others might not be.

 

[HagardGman]

I have had the Albatron Mobo for about 6 months now. My setup is A 3.0(northwood), 7800GT, and 1gb(2 x 525mb). When I first installed everything I ran 3dMark05 and I only scored a 5800. I then overclocked my cpu to a 3.4 and got a score of 6400, I then overclocked my video card and got a 7012. So, the motherboard and CPU are holding my video card down, but it plays games really well and is way better than my 6600gt.
By the time I save up my money again I can then upgrade to the new AMD chips.