Motherboard recommendation

Jgtdragon

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Well, like a fool I sold my 1.8a, Abit th7-II, and rdrams beginning of Dec. The reason? I thought Granite bay is comming out. Am I wrong. I been waiting and waiting. From then to now I got the follow Items:

- Antec 550w Truepower
- Seagate 15x 36lp 18gb
- 2 x 256mb Samsung Pc2700
- P4 1.8a C1
- Dell Ultrasharp 18' LCD
- Logitech Duo wireless mouse/keyboard combo


It just sitting there becasue I don't have a motherboard. hahaha
Should I continue to wait for GB or get another board?
If I wait for Granite bay should I go with either the Gigabtye, Asus, or Aopen?
Or should I just go with another chipset?


Arghhh
:disgust:
 

mechBgon

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That stinks! Well, since you have some DDR now, why not pick up an i845E board to use for the meantime. You can always sell it later. $115 for an Asus P4B533 to get your parts back into action, sell for $60-$70 in a year or so...
 

bigshooter

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If you already had an rdram mobo, why did you sell it? Dual channel pc2100 is about the same speed as a pc1066 rdram solution. You probably wouldn't have noticed a very big increase in performance or features.
 

Jgtdragon

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If you already had an rdram mobo, why did you sell it? Dual channel pc2100 is about the same speed as a pc1066 rdram solution. You probably wouldn't have noticed a very big increase in performance or features.

Well, it was PC800 motherboard. I can't overclock it to PC1066. The motherboard was holding me back. I guess I got into the Granite Bay hype. :(
 

Jgtdragon

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Just ordered aopen's granite bay board. They won't have it until end of the month. Good price and heard good reviews on it. Hope it really come in at the end of this month.
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Jgtdragon

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This suck, just got an email from myaopen that the new ETA is end of the month (Feb). I asked them to cancel my order.:disgust: