Best, Cheapest Intel Motherboard!

[livewire4276]

I am looking for a good intel motherboard for my pentium 4 chipset, but looking to not pay alot. I am I guess, what you would call an average computer user. I know a good bit, enough to get me by, but ofcourse not everything. However, back to the subject. I am looking at a few options, but would like to see some opinions that match up. I figure if i can get more than 1 person to say they recommend any 1 motherboard it may be worth my while to look into it further. So, in closing any help you may be able to give would be very much appreciated! Thankyou!

 

[Regs]

A 865/875 based motherboard will be best.


Also the ASUS P4S800D-E is likely the best one you can find. 100 dollars on newegg.

 

[Vette73]

Best bang for your P4 buck $101 shipped


That board has it all and is a great price for wat you get.

 

[livewire4276]

thanks for ur help so far guys, I'm gettting pretty close to the motherboard I am going to get now, but if there are any more opinions, I would be more than happy to hear them!

 

[oldfart]

Get a niice 865PE based board like an Abit IS7 or Asus P4P800

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Best bang for your P4 buck $101 shipped


That board has it all and is a great price for wat you get.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Best bang for your P4 buck $101 shipped


That board has it all and is a great price for wat you get.

There's no way I'd pay $100 for a SiS chipset, when you can get an i865 board for about $10 less.

I've owned three boards in the past built around SiS chipsets... Each one of them had their share of annoyances. (Nothing critical, mind you... But annoying enough that I have no desire to own another.)

 

[Zebo]

Anands review does'nt mention any problems and he notes it speed superemacy.
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=1930

Both the Asus P4S800D-E and Gigabyte 8S655TX Ultra perform as well or better than any current Intel chipset motherboard for the Pentium 4. Add to this the fact that both boards also fully support the upcoming Prescott, deliver 2 channels of Dual-Channel memory (4 64-bit dimms) running in fast 128-bit mode, offer memory ratios not even imagined on Intel boards, and fully support HyperThreading. This adds up to a formidable chipset that delivers great performance at a bargain price. In our benchmarks, both SiS655TX boards, without PAT, outperformed a top 875p board with the fastest timings and PAT enabled. That is performance worth looking at, regardless of price. The fact that SIS655TX is cheaper is just icing on the cake.

It takes time to shed a bad image...SiS was not as good in the past but they are superior on every platform today IMO (A-XP, A64 and P4) From reviews I've read it's network and IDE performance are unmatched by keeping them off of the PCI bus and it's mobos perform faster across the board relative to competing chipsets.

Even though the Intel solution is slower I could go either way 865PE like the IS7 or Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe SiS board.

Some more quotes on stabilty and superioity:

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTU0

This motherboard is one of the most stable and consistent we have had the pleasure of testing in a while. The P4S800D-E Deluxe drew a line in the sand, planted itself firmly, and never once let go. We were able to get 50 consecutive runs of Content Creation 2003 and Business Winstone 2002 without issue.

The sheer volume of hard drive configuration choices sets this product up as an excellent choice for mass storage in the home even in light of the less than stellar network transfer rates.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2003/asus/p4s800d-e/p4s800d-e-8.htm

Overall, this board with SiS 655TX chipset is definitely a stable and fast performing board for users who wishes to take advantage of the expandability as it has many USB and SATA ports. The flexible DIMM configuration also makes it flexible for you to use back your old modules.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: Zebo
Anands review does'nt mention any problems and he notes it speed superemacy.
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=1930

Both the Asus P4S800D-E and Gigabyte 8S655TX Ultra perform as well or better than any current Intel chipset motherboard for the Pentium 4. Add to this the fact that both boards also fully support the upcoming Prescott, deliver 2 channels of Dual-Channel memory (4 64-bit dimms) running in fast 128-bit mode, offer memory ratios not even imagined on Intel boards, and fully support HyperThreading. This adds up to a formidable chipset that delivers great performance at a bargain price. In our benchmarks, both SiS655TX boards, without PAT, outperformed a top 875p board with the fastest timings and PAT enabled. That is performance worth looking at, regardless of price. The fact that SIS655TX is cheaper is just icing on the cake.

It takes time to shed a bad image...SiS was not as good in the past but they are superior on every platform today IMO (A-XP, A64 and P4) From reviews I've read it's network and IDE performance are unmatched by keeping them off of the PCI bus and it's mobos perform faster across the board relative to competing chipsets.

Even though the Intel solution is slower I could go either way 865PE like the IS7 or Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe SiS board.

Some more quotes on stabilty and superioity:

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTU0

This motherboard is one of the most stable and consistent we have had the pleasure of testing in a while. The P4S800D-E Deluxe drew a line in the sand, planted itself firmly, and never once let go. We were able to get 50 consecutive runs of Content Creation 2003 and Business Winstone 2002 without issue.

The sheer volume of hard drive configuration choices sets this product up as an excellent choice for mass storage in the home even in light of the less than stellar network transfer rates.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2003/asus/p4s800d-e/p4s800d-e-8.htm

Overall, this board with SiS 655TX chipset is definitely a stable and fast performing board for users who wishes to take advantage of the expandability as it has many USB and SATA ports. The flexible DIMM configuration also makes it flexible for you to use back your old modules.

What I am talking about are things that won't likely be noticed with a few hours with the board. Being able to run Winstone 50 times in a row is not something to rave about.

I'm talking about issues such as: Having to run an AGP driver that is a couple revisions old, to get stability, the PC not shutting down occasionally, etc... Again, as I said before, I'm not referring to critical stability. Just annoyances that I don't want to deal with.

I don't see the point of going with a SiS chipset over an i865.