I just wonder why they terminate the 875 (only one in Intel web site now)
and keep a lots of 865 (even 845) mother board. The 775 socket is Intel's
new generation and the CPU price is even cheaper than 478, there is no
reason to buy the old board today. I purchase the 865 mother board in July
last year, at that time the 9xx boards are much more expensive but now their
price are very close (at least the different in dollar is non-significant).
For computer I won't plan for further compatibility as most likely I will
change the board and CPU at the same time two years later, they may have
something new by then.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Sharp" <jsharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
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