Intel 845PE Compatibility

[mooojojojo]

Does anyone know if a 845PE board (gigabyte GA-8PE667) will support anything above the current Pentium4 / Celeron CPUs?

 

[mooojojojo]

anyone? please

 

[Dahak]

Well it should support any new p4 or celeron chips(either 400 or 533 FSB supported and HT). but seeing that the p4 3.06 gh and celeron 2.2 are the fastest at the moment. there no worry. and intel plans on keeping the p4 till about 3.5 or so before next major core change (prescott)

Hope That helps

Dahak

 

[mooojojojo]

Originally posted by: Dahak
Well it should support any new p4 or celeron chips(either 400 or 533 FSB supported and HT). but seeing that the p4 3.06 gh and celeron 2.2 are the fastest at the moment. there no worry. and intel plans on keeping the p4 till about 3.5 or so before next major core change (prescott)

Hope That helps

Dahak

thanks, dahak!
so prescott won't run on it, right?

 

[Goi]

AFAIK Prescott will require an 800MHz FSB, and no motherboard I know supports that, except maybe the Gigabyte GA-8PE667.

 

[mooojojojo]

Goi - the GA-8PE667 is a 845PE mobo I think. Doesn't it support buses up to 667?

btw, any other 845PE boards that are worth looking into?
I want a straight-forward mobo - no RAID, firewire or anything.

 

[Goi]

Yeah I know its an i845PE board. I have one

I mentioned it because I think its the i845PE board with the highest FSB available. Its definitely more than 667MHz, since I've took mine to 4x170MHz = 680MHz before, and I know it goes higher than that.

 

[mooojojojo]

Originally posted by: Goi
Yeah I know its an i845PE board. I have one

I mentioned it because I think its the i845PE board with the highest FSB available. Its definitely more than 667MHz, since I've took mine to 4x170MHz = 680MHz before, and I know it goes higher than that.

so basically it could end up like those BXs that ran the 133fab P3s? hmm sounds cool.
any ideas if Intel plans to release Celerons with a FSB higher than 667 anytime soon?

I'm just wondering whether I should wait for the new mobos that support the 800mhz FSB or get the GA-8PE667

 

[cmdrdredd]

goes higher and runs at that speed stable are different.

I wouldn't worry about prescott since what you have now will likely be fast enough for anything you care to do

 

[mooojojojo]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
goes higher and runs at that speed stable are different.
I wouldn't worry about prescott since what you have now will likely be fast enough for anything you care to do

that's what I'm thinking. if I get this mobo it would be more than enough at the moment.

but I'm not exactly upgrading on a regular basis. I'm using celeron533/bx right now and it's been a while since I upgraded anything. it will be the same thing with whatever I get now so I want the longest upgrade path possible (meaning that I wouldn't have to change the mobo). I burnt my self by getting the abit bm6 and I stuck at 533 celeron... don't want this to happen again

thanks for the input.

 

[Goi]

Unfortunately at this juncture, its not at all clear how future proof the i845PE is. Come Prescott and the 800MHz FSB, you might not be able to run them on current i845PE boards. Moreover, after that there's a 1066MHz FSB which will prove to be even harder to run.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Goi
Unfortunately at this juncture, its not at all clear how future proof the i845PE is. Come Prescott and the 800MHz FSB, you might not be able to run them on current i845PE boards. Moreover, after that there's a 1066MHz FSB which will prove to be even harder to run.

that's the way it is.
i have a KT266A board that won't even run TBred CPU's. (not even a 1700+) so I had to leave the Palomino 1700+ in there and I opted to upgrade my other PC's mobo and use the TBred in that one. it's not even old.. like a year.. but that's how it is. sucks.