one of the best boards for socket 478

Advantages: features SATA, dual channel memory
Disadvantages: lacks modern features such as ddr2 and pci express

...If your like i was before stuck with a pretty decent socket 478 CPU such as a Pentium 4 2.8 , then this is one of the best motherboards i would recommend to get. There are lots of great advantages with this motherboard such as the size, its a Micro ATX motherboard meaning that you can have a smaller case such as a media centre case. It has 2 DDR 400 (backwards compatible with DDR 333,266 and 200) slots which can be used in Dual channel Mode if both Ram modules are the same. The northbridge chipset on this board is an Intel 865g which supports a front side bus up to 800 mhz , but you can also use 400 and 533 mhz bus CPU's with this board. It has two SATA slots which i would say is the most future friendly part on the motherboard meaning it wont be a problem when upgrading your hard drive or some optical drives which are now...

smash_3000 26.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of ASRock P4I65G - motherboard - micro ATX - i865G

GA-7VTX Socket A Gigabyte dual bios motherboard.

Advantages: Dual bios and great stability
Disadvantages: Unnanounced conflicts and required settings

...GA-7VTX Socket A Gigabyte dual bios motherboard. Introduction; This Dual Bios motherboard designed to accept AMD/Duron/Athlon/XP processors,incorperates onboard sound,+4 USB,with DDR memorey and in innovative dual bios system. Having myself tried and tested this motherboard for 6 months in two machines,I am totally convinced of is usefulness and it's place in the market.Providing a very stable board and up to date technology,it has the added benefit of a system that protects your bios against viruses,power fluctuations,incorrect bios upgrades and bios chip failure. Its incorperated resources and features are good,and ample for a very respectable system.However there are a few factors to be considered when choosing a motherboard,and most of the conflicts and incompatibilty problems I have encountered are not documented...

babajane32 28.02.2003 · Read review
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Review of Gigabyte Socket A GA-7DXR - motherboard - ATX - AMD-761

Asrock P4V88 Skt478 Motherboard

Advantages: Easy Setup, Great Performance, Cheap but Reliable
Disadvantages: Some components hard to reach

...I bought this motherboard when I was building my first ever system, mainly due to the cost but also due to it's wide range of features. On the face of it, it's nothing to shout home about, but it's reliable and should something go wrong, during installation or testing, it won't break the bank if you need to purchase another. It comes well packaged, with a fairly well laid out multilingual manual, all the cables you'll need (Floppy, SATA, IDE), the Install CD (although in my opinion it's not really needed) and even an anti-static foam mat for preparation of the board. On the whole, the board is well laid out, with the connectors for the drives grouped together and a good distance from the pci/agp slots. There are 6 USB 2.0 ports on this board, and they are connected by means of pins. There are also pins for firewire, audio...

patwanet 19.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of ASRock P4V88 - motherboard - ATX - PT880

Good all round socket 939 motherboard

Advantages: Excellent all rounder with too many features to list
Disadvantages: Not great for overclocking

...I have recently become a big fan of Asus products. The first contact i had with them was when i purchased an A8v deluxe motherboard for my pc. At the time, it was the best motherboard available on the market, but this was mainly due to the small number of manufacturers catering for this format. Last month my younger brother pleaded with me to build him a computer which he can use for games, music, internet and all manner of things pc related. As Microsoft are slowly integrating 64 bit capability into almost all of their upcoming software, and 32 bit is being slowly phased out, I decided on starting with a 64 bit system. There are currently 3 formats of 64 bit system available, namely socket 754, socket 940 and socket 939. These 3 formats differ in their chip types and also in their compatability with other components used in the pc...

ciao_saqibf 01.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of ASUS A8N-SLI - motherboard - ATX - nForce4 SLI

mATX - Small, Sound, Old

Advantages: ATX-compatible, Power-efficient, Inexpensive, Supports ATA and SATA
Disadvantages: Obsolete DDR Technology, Unsuitable for Gamers

...ASRock P4i65G is a compact motherboard for that tiny PC case. Because it was manufactured for microtower standard computer boxes, it lacks the strengths that the following customers would desire: workstation administrators, hardcore gamers, media professionals. In other words, this motherboard is currently suitable only for those with medium requirements (if you wish to buy it for a new computer) and highly recommended for Socket 478 processor owners. Introducing mATX Power Capacity Most mATX computers support power supplies of no more than 350W, and the case is sometimes too small for you to stuff two hard disks. This motherboard can easily house a P4 3.4 GHz HT (one of the most powerful and watt-guzzling monocore CPUs) that can compete with modern dual core processors, multiple DVD-ROMs and hard disk...

Lord_Kelvin 15.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of ASRock P4I65G - motherboard - micro ATX - i865G

TH7-II Raid - a classic & still up with the best

Advantages: reliable, very upgradable, fast and very over-clockable.
Disadvantages: no HT support, only USB 1.1, did anybody get built in LAN?

...Blaster Live 5.1 Platinum. Since I've never used the built in one, I can't comment on it. Generally though they are not up to the standard of the high end Creative cards. I installed 2x 200gig IBM 7200rpm deskstars on the primary standard ide, and a dvd writer and cd writer on the secondary standard ide. On the Highpoint I installed 4x 200gig IBM 7200rpm desktars (primary ide master+slave and secondary ide master+slave). I use them as extra drives only, not as RAID. This is because if you upgrade the highpoint BIOS it can sometimes break the RAID stripe. I didn't want to risk that. This board supports ATA100 max. ATA133 drives work fine, but you will only get ATA100 transfer speeds through the bus. This board started life with a socket 478 Pentium4 Williamette processor at 1.5GHz. This lasted me for a while, and ran happily when clocked...

tomsmith500 05.05.2004 (20.12.2006) · Read review
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Review of Abit Socket 478 TH7-II-RAID - mainboard - ATX - i850

Motherboard for Hardcore Gamers

Advantages: Fast, Cool, Supports Quad core processors
Disadvantages: None

...Hi all my friends in this review i will be talking about one of the most advanced mainboard present... yes my friends im talking about a very powerful motherboard bu ASUS and the model number is P5Q PRO... Let me explain to you the features of this motherboard... first of all this motherboard is ATX which means that it requires type ATX power supply unit installed in the case.. and secondly this motherboard supports Socket LGA775 type processors which are either dual or quad core mostly... these processors are really fast and upto 2 to 4X faster than ordinary p4 processors... The motherboard also supports upto 4 GB of DDR 2 ram and also has 2 PCI Express ports for upgrades such as graphic cards and stuff.. and a lot more...the motherboard has upto 8 SATA input connectors... inbuilt fire wire and heaps of great features... And just by...

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Review of ASUS P5Q PRO - motherboard - ATX - iP45

A motherboard with firewire

Advantages: Ideal for those with digital cameras of video editing
Disadvantages: aimed more towards specialists

...his Gigabyte board is a Flip Chip Pin Grid Array board, using the VIA 594x Apollo Pro Family AGPset chipset, in an ATX format with FireWire support (hence the '1394') in the product name. This latter feature, in particular, is unusual. Where many manufacturers might be tempted to add sound, modem, NIC or even SCSI support, Gigabyte is the first we've seen to add FireWire to this form factor, courtesy of a TI chipset. Also known as IEEE1394 (in deference to Apple) and i.LINK by Sony, this FireWire interface could be described as 'USB, but faster'. Watch for future features on this site where we explain all about FireWire. Back to the board. This unit has five PCI slots, one of which is shared with an ISA slot, along with the obligatory AGP port and an AMR riser slot. Three DIMMs are onboard, each capable of handling PC-133 memory...

Mcsm 17.01.2001 (16.01.2001) · Read review
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Review of Gigabyte Socket 370 GA-6VX7-1394 - motherboard - ATX - Pro133A

A High Performance Motherboard

Advantages: Features rich, FSB 800MHz, USB2.0, Firewire, Dual Channel DDR, Supports upto 3.2Ghz, Prescott Ready, RAID, 8x AGP, On-board 1GB LAN, On-board Sound, Supports 4GB DDR RAM IT TALKS!
Disadvantages: Expensive, Asus website is SLOW.

...that comes to mind. It?s quite expensive at over £100. I would prefer to have paid less for this motherboard. Even though it costs so much, it still doesn?t support the fastest Pentium processors. It supports the 3.4Ghz AFTER a BIOS update but 3.6Ghz use a differenttype of CPU altogether. Those use the newer Socket T / PGA775 cpu. Either way, it's the top board in the Asus socket 478 range. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? JARGON BUSTER: Socket 478 describes the CPU socket type on the motherboard. You will need a CPU with a Socket 478 interface for it to fit into the motherboard. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? This board has a port for an Asus Wi-Fi (Wireless) card. You do not need to use this but I think they were just trying to flog their own wireless card, as you can get PCI Wi-Fi cards. I think that was rather pointless unless the board came...

Deru 05.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe - motherboard - ATX - i875P

MSi 845E Max (6566e) Pentium 4 motherboard

Advantages: Fast, cheap, stable, excellent support and v good manual
Disadvantages: Requires a minimum of Win ME upwards

...these are out-dated you have the very simple task of just clicking on update and your chosen driver updates are done for you with nothing else required, its extremely simple and straightforward and a massive bonus of this and other MSi motherboards to have included. The 845E max is a typical ATX motherboard and therefore will fit into most (if not all) modern desktops and the exact size dimensions are... Width 30.5 cm Depth 20 cm Heres a full list of the included supported features of this motherboard as specified by MSi themseoves on thier website... Expansion Slots Total (Free) 1 ( 1 ) x processor - Socket 478 1 ( 1 ) x AGP 4x ( 1.5 V ) 2 ( 2 ) x memory ( 2.5 V ) - DIMM 184-PIN 1 ( 1 ) x CNR 6 ( 6 ) x PCI ( 3.3 V/ 5 V ) Interfaces 1 x storage - floppy interface - 34 PIN IDC 2 x serial - RS-232 - 9 pin D...

Rabid 12.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of MSI 845E Max - motherboard - ATX - i845E