Keep in mind this was early in March, but when I was looking there were
plenty of 875 motherboards available. At least as many as 925 boards.
The only thing that's unique about the DFI board I purchased is that
it's an LGA775 socket and uses DDR PC3200 184 pin memory. Looking around
at places like Tomshardware at the time I didn't see any/enough
performance increase to offset the additional cost of the 925 boards
with DDR 2 memory.
My primary focus was low cost and stability. I got that so I'm very
happy. The 875 chipsets are well worked out at this time so that fits my
requirements. I certainly wouldn't buy anything with a Socket 478
though. That is a dead end.
The newer CPU's do run hotter than the older and slower variety don't
they...
C.H.Ling wrote:
> The 875 almost disappeared, only leaving the older 865 and the latest 9xx
> series, the 9xx series is the way to go if you choose Intel. I have a 3.2GHz
> P4 on 865 board, the only problem is it is much hotter than the P4 2.4 I
> used before.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Sharp" <jsharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>I built a machine a couple of months ago using a DFI 875P motherboard
>>and a 3.0 ghz 530J Intel retail CPU with the boxed heatsink fan assy. I
>>couldn't be happier with this machine.
>>
>>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136148
>>
>>It's a generation old intel 875 chipset, has 8X AGP, SATA raid and IDE
>>interfaces, onboard sound and gigabit lan, 4 usb ports, etc. Running
>>XP-SP2 it's the most stable machine I've used in literally years.
>>
>>Unless you like hacking on things and can put up with compatibility
>>issues and thermal problems, I'd leave the AMD stuff to the overclockers
>>and gamers...
>>
>>--
>>Jim
>>
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