Future Power Motherboards

[ekennard]

Hey,
Has anyone ever heard of the future power si645 motherboards, they support p4 processors.
I am upgrading from an imperial board from my crappy emachines and I wanted to know what kind of upgrade that would be...whether I would notice any difference, or if I wasted my money buying it. I have a celeron 2.0 gig processor. If anyone could let me know that would be awesome.

Thanks

 

[MDE]

Truthfully, I would have ditched that Celeron for either a P4 or an Athlon XP. How much did you pay for the board? Welcome to the forums.

 

[ekennard]

I paid 10 bucks for it on ebay and 15 for shipping.
I really wanted to go to a P4 but it is too expensive for me, I don't make a huge amount of money and also I am in college...my loss you could say.
I just bought it because my motherboard from emachines doesn't have an agp slot on it and it's sharing DDR to go to the 845GL integrated graphics. So when you play games like UT GOTY it precaches.
The more involved the graphics get, the less involved the system gets...if you get what I mean..lol.
Thanks for the help

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: ekennard
I paid 10 bucks for it on ebay and 15 for shipping.
I really wanted to go to a P4 but it is too expensive for me, I don't make a huge amount of money and also I am in college...my loss you could say.
I just bought it because my motherboard from emachines doesn't have an agp slot on it and it's sharing DDR to go to the 845GL integrated graphics. So when you play games like UT GOTY it precaches.
The more involved the graphics get, the less involved the system gets...if you get what I mean..lol.
Thanks for the help

Ouch. Ouch.
I've not heard of Future Power before. From my experience with non-namebrand boards, they generally will not perform quite as well as the comparable big-name boards, but usually nothing substantial. They'll also likely not have many advanced tweaking/overclocking options. But then there are exceptions. I once had a board from a company called J-mark, back in the Socket 7 days, that was very overclocking friendly, and was a pretty good performer too.

Now, that AGP slot - what've you got planned for that? Or was that going to be your next post?

 

[ekennard]

I am pretty sure that I am going to go with a GeForce AGP Video card. Not sure what yet, but a price that I can handle.

Pretty much the old motherboard was holding me back. I haven't really heard of the mobo manufacturer either.