mATX s478 mobo's

[Stoneburner]

I have an old p4b 3.06 ghz and a 9700 pro aiw that i want to stick in a media center SFF. What's a good mATX mobo for this? I'm primarily concerned with stability. thanks in advance.

 

[Zap]

The Asus P4S8X-MX would be one possible choice, available at Buy.com for $51 shipped ground, ZipZoomFly for $52 shipped second day air and Newegg for $55 shipped 3 day UPS.

 

[Megatomic]

I just bought an ASUS P4P800-X from NewEgg for my buddy, I should get it Monday or Tuesday. It's an i865 based mobo, so it's got dual channel memory and full support for HT and 800MHz FSB. It was only $62.65 shipped to Texas.

 

[Stoneburner]

what SFF are you sticking it in?

 

[Megatomic]

uATX. Here's a link to the one I bought at Newegg:

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oops, it's P4P800-MX not P4P800-X. Sorry for the type earlier. 😱

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
uATX. Here's a link to the one I bought at Newegg:

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That is the 865GV with no AGP slot. I think you meant this:

P4P800-VM 865G with AGP 8x - $92.65 shipped

VIA P4M800 is a decent single-channel chipset. Don't worry about dual channel memory with P4 above 533MHz. Gobs of reviews have consistently shown that P4 hardly benefits from dual channel between 533MHz and 800MHz bus, except in synthetic benchmarks. Refined single-channel chipsets like the VIA Px800 perform within 5% of the fastest PAT-enabled dual channel motherboards.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Refined single-channel chipsets like the VIA Px800 perform within 5% of the fastest PAT-enabled dual channel motherboards.

Hahahahaha, that's like the difference between socket 754 and 939.

Yeah, VIA's chipset is fine, as is the SiS chipsets. Indeed for the one I mentioned earlier I think Asus claims that it has locked AGP/PCI. Y'all know what that means, right?