Replacement 478 mobo?

[heymrdj]

As some may know from my last thread, I need a new mobo for my 478 system as I continue to make the old desktop into a media/internet/development/VM server. lol

This is what I need:

Socket 478 for 800FSB 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 Hyperthreading processor support
support for DDR memory (I have a 512MB module of DDR 400)
SATA (the more the better, my board had two, if I could get more without needing a card that would be even better)
RAID is not necessary but would be a plus
Must have 2IDE ports, along with the SATA ports
Stable board, its gonna have a linux OS on it, and I would love for 24/6 ability (24 hours a day, at least 6 days a week)

I would love if this would be mountable in rack cases, cause eventually I would like to move this to a permanent storage setup in a 8u case with 10TB storage array in RAID5 (something I'm saving up, a little here and there as a college student). For now it needs to be ATX or mini ATX, but if it can go in a rack case too, that'd be great.

I know this board setup is probably way out there, but hey I can try . Currently found this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813135025


Don't mind going to ebay either if someone knows a good baord that isn't carried by the egg or something like that.

 

[NXIL]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Asus-Mothe...VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Sealed...VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-ECS-PF...VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-ECS-PF...VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-D845...VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-845G...VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Recommend Intel chipset over Via or others for a server type system....

Note: watch out for the 850 chipset models, they need RDRAM, not good.

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Intel-...VWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Supermicro = long lasting, server quality:

http://www.atacom.com/program/...ALL&KEYWORDS=MB47_SUPE

Same with Tyan:

http://www.atacom.com/program/...TYAN_3N_RP&USER_ID=www

The 875 chipset on the above is known to be very good, AIR,

HTH,

NXIL

 

[heymrdj]

Nice post, gave me some good starting points.

Anyone think it would be better to scrap this processor and build from the ground up instead?

 

[nitromullet]

I would highly recommend the Asus P4P800 series boards. I had a P4P800 Deluxe, and my wife is still using her P4P800 SE (with a P4 2.6 Northwood + 4x 256MB DDR400). Very solid 865PE boards.

 

[NXIL]

Dear Hey,

a P4 server system running Linux should be fine, depending on what other applications you want to run, expected load, etc....for a home type server, that should be more than enough....sounds like you have the CPU, some memory, etc,

That P4 was most likely very expensive in its time....i.e. it was a top line CPU at one time. That is one good thing about Linux, among many: works great on "older" hardware.

One advantage of more recent processors is lower power consumption...but, the break even point on that varies, i.e. you would need new memory, CPU, etc, and depending on how many dollars you save a month, break even point might not come for a long time, esp for a college student....

HTH

NXIL

 

[heymrdj]

Originally posted by: NXIL
Dear Hey,

a P4 server system running Linux should be fine, depending on what other applications you want to run, expected load, etc....for a home type server, that should be more than enough....sounds like you have the CPU, some memory, etc,

That P4 was most likely very expensive in its time....i.e. it was a top line CPU at one time. That is one good thing about Linux, among many: works great on "older" hardware.

One advantage of more recent processors is lower power consumption...but, the break even point on that varies, i.e. you would need new memory, CPU, etc, and depending on how many dollars you save a month, break even point might not come for a long time, esp for a college student....

HTH

NXIL

Yeah I got mem, cpu, 64Mb vcard, cases, adn other stuff to pull this off. And good business class 400 watt PSUs. I jsut need a new mobo since the caps on the old one went bad.

Yes that cpu was expensive, I think when I bought it it cost me $284 when I bought it cause the biggest at the time was the 3.2 Extreme. In fact, I remember I paid like 80$ extra to get the 800FSB opposed to the 533 that was currently sellin.