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my brain hurts, need mobo help

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imported_MrMax

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ok, ive been trying to get my hands on a asus socket 478 mobo used/chep for a while now. i dont have that much $. i also spent hours looking through cheaper alternatives but i wanted the asus and the i865 chipset. ive finally decided that i cant find one so im caving and buying retail. probably should anyway cause the motherboard is an important part of the computer. what im asking is, does anyone now of a place where i can get a good deal on a board? preferablly the asus p4p800 e, or se, or even the mATX version vm. i just want to put my puter together 🙁


thanks
 
Just how cheap do you need to go? Newegg has the P4P800-MX for 58 dollars, or the ASRock (the value branch of Asus) P4i65G is the cheapest at 45. The VM is 83 dollars.

You might also get a decent price on ebay, if you try. Depends on timing, like everything on ebay, find one when nobody else happens to be looking for one, don't bid more than the retail price for it.

Anytime you decide on a specific brand and chipset, you end up limiting yourself on what sort of value you're going to get out of it. Buying a high-end expensive mainboard for an older CPU, which won't be worth upgrading ever again, becomes less and less of a good idea as time goes on.
 
yeah, 478 is on the way out i know, but i got just got a new 3ghz p4 for cheap and thought it would do me. thanks for the newegg suggestions but im in canada...no newegg for me 🙁

oh, and about the asrocks, are they any good? i know their part of asus but do they have any big drawbacks or stuff like that?
 
ASRock boards tend to use older chipset models, so they aren't the flashy newest designs, and they have fewer features than the Asus boards, but other than that they seem to be reasonable quality from everything I've read, and quite a good value for their lower price. It's like getting an Asus board without all the fluff.

NCIX.com has the ASrock board for only 57 bucks CDN, only slightly more expensive than Newegg. tigerdirect.ca also has several other i865 boards, though not the Asus. futureshop.ca is the only other canadian dealer I know of, they don't have any.
 
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