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| Author: | liquidtouch [ Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Motherboard selection Help. AsRock P4i65G a good choice? |
I am using an old computer to build my system. The motherboard on it currently has a VIA chipset and has DMA issues which I can't get it to work. So I am thinking of getting a different Socket 478 MB. I don't want to spend a pile of money and Socket 478 mb's are getting more and more difficult to find. I came across this mb for about 50 bucks and am wondering if any of you see any potential problems with it? My system: Intel 2.4 GHZ processor 512 MB Ram ECS P4VMM2 motherboard (VIA 266 chipset which does not work) Hauppauge WinTV PVR-500 NVIDIA 6200 Videocard 40 GB IDE Harddrive I am planning on changing the MB and am looking at the AsRock P4i65Gbecause it is the cheapest MB with and Intel865G chipset that I can find. I am under the impression that the intel chipsets are the best. http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P4i65G I am also planning on putting in a 120GB sata harddrive for storage. I would Use the 40 gig as the boot drive because I have heard of issures surrounding using Sata drive to boot. Any thoughts on this choice would be appreciated... Liquidtouch |
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| Author: | slowtolearn [ Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:39 am ] |
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I'm using the P4i65G with a 3.0Ghz and 512Mb RAM for one of my frontends - Works fine, don't recall having any trouble with it. |
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| Author: | the_manowar [ Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Motherboard selection Help. AsRock P4i65G a good choice? |
liquidtouch wrote: I am planning on changing the MB and am looking at the AsRock P4i65Gbecause it is the cheapest MB with and Intel865G chipset that I can find. I am under the impression that the intel chipsets are the best.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P4i65G I am also planning on putting in a 120GB sata harddrive for storage. I would Use the 40 gig as the boot drive because I have heard of issures surrounding using Sata drive to boot. Any thoughts on this choice would be appreciated... Liquidtouch I'm using one here. No real problems. I'm also booting from a 320Gb SATAII without any issues. The only minor issue I see (which I saw on a previous ASUS SIS board) is occasionally the kernel shuts down my USB ports due to EMI. At which point LIRC, and then MythFrontend need to be recycled. Annoying, but I think it's more of a kernel issue, as versions prior to R5E50 did not exhibit this behavior. Hope that helps. |
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