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need to replace a MB

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TechBoyJK

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I was given a motherboard, cpu, and ram. Person who gave it to me said it was faulty. I tested it out, found out the the motherboard is bad, and wish to replace it. I tried the cpu in a similar board with the memory and it was stable through a windows install and memtest.

Its a P4 Chip at 2.8ghz. Comes up as two cpu's during post, not sure if it is dual core or hyper threading.

here is the link to the motherboard I want to replace..

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=12&l3=42&model=199&modelmenu=1

anybody have any good, cheap, recommendations? It came with a 512MB DDR333 pc2700 chip, so I'm probably just going to buy another one when I buy the board. I'm not looking for heavy gaming, just a machine I can put together for a friend who does music production.. (he is currently working on a p3 1ghz with 512pc133)

 
Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
I tried the cpu in a similar board with the memory and it was stable through a windows install and memtest.

Its a P4 Chip at 2.8ghz. Comes up as two cpu's during post, not sure if it is dual core or hyper threading.

anybody have any... recommendations?
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The CPU supports "Hyperthreading", it's not a dual core CPU.
Get your friend a good 478 MB based on an Intel 865PE or 875PE chipset.
Forget about VIA or SiS. 😉

 
Originally posted by: Blain
Get your friend a good 478 MB based on an Intel 865PE or 875PE chipset.
Forget about VIA or SiS. 😉
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That doesn't exactly leave him with a lot of choices...almost none, if buying brand new.

Looks like most 478 boards left are either microATX, or too expensive to consider. PC-2700 is also a little too expensive to consider.

My recommendation is to buy a board off eBay...any chipset, and cheap. However, you might get lucky...I've seen old 478 machines selling really cheap, and you might be able to get one, upgrade the proc to your 2.8 and drop in your RAM, and it might not cost much more than buying a brand new mobo.
 
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