Northwood or Prescott supported mobo?

[garetjax]

Looking to buy a new mobo, and confused on which I should get. If a mobo supports both procs, like this one:

http://www.newegg.com/app/view...=13-127-152&depa=0

Will it suffer a performance hit if I were to just get a straight Prescott-only supported mobo?

Does anyone have any reccomendations for a good Prescott mobo that supports 4x/8x AGP, SATA, HT, RAID and DDR2?

 

[o1die]

The abit board is good for socket 478, but I wouldn't buy a 478 prescott. If your looking for value, I would go with an 865pe board and a "c" series northwood, while you can still get them. My 2.8c does 3.5, and would go higher with a better power supply. Some 865 boards are around $60-75, even the abit is7. If you want the latest technology and money is no object, wait for the new 1066 boards and cpus, which should be out shortly. The Inquirer has an article about the new 925xe Intel motherboards, if you're interested.

 

[stevty2889]

Prescotts are generaly slower at the same clock speed as a northwood, so I would get a northwood if you want to use that motherboard. As for DDR-2 it is much more expensive, and has no perfomance advantage over current pc3200 DDR.