Mobo & CPU for New PC

DavidPJ wrote on 9/15/2004, 11:03 AM
I'm planning on building or having a PC built for me to my specs. If you were doing this, which mobo and cpu would you use? I want to use an Intel Pentium 4, but the dilemma is whether to use the popular 478 socket or the newer LGA775. If I go with lthe LGA775, that pretty much implies using the PCI Express instead of AGP. And the cost is higher too.

I initially wanted to have an AGP socket so I could reuse my existing Matrox card, but I don't want to invest in "old technology" just for the sake of saving the Matrox card. What do you think? Thanks.

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NickHope wrote on 9/15/2004, 11:46 AM
Had an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe for a couple of months and getting along great with it. P4 3.0C (not Prescott) and 1Gb Kingston CL2.5 RAM.
FuTz wrote on 9/15/2004, 1:04 PM
So far so good with Asus P4P800-E Deluxe, 1Go memory (corsair true Value; the cheapest...), Intel 3.0MHz 512 cache (no Prescott either).
I've set up Win XP as RAID array (zero) with ATA133 identical drives. Smokes.

Still haven't tried video capture but heard everything's good on this side too.
Audio capture thru on-board is ok, but with +-1sec. latency. Good to grab some things here and there but really not for serious work.

...And I lOvE this Matrox P650 !

\Ü/ yee-peeee!
DavidPJ wrote on 9/15/2004, 1:17 PM
The Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo was what I was going to use, until others advised me not to invest money in P4 478 socket mobos. Rather, the LGA775 is much newer and has a lot more life for future processors.
mstrg wrote on 9/16/2004, 3:22 AM
I've always used the "upgradeable" rationalization when selecting the MB, but never upgraded - never economical. There seems to be a lot of reasons for not moving to the LGA775 - heat/cost/PCI - but the biggest is that the 478's do the job. I went P4C800ed w 2.6 P4 & 1G. Vegas is no prblm after adding 2 HDs.
DavidPJ wrote on 9/16/2004, 9:39 AM
Thanks mstrg. I think I'm going to stick with the tried and true 478, specifcally the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo. Trying to guess what Intel's strategy will be for the LGA775 and trying to future proof the processor socket is probably a hopeless task. And if 3 years down the road I want to upgrade, I'm sure there well be newer mobos too, so I'll just replace the entire mobo and cpu/memory.