On 18 Sep 2005, at 17:48:520, Chris Reeves wrote:
Socket 775 is dead, in the longterm that is. In that saying, it is
a very
short life socket. Right now, it is your only choice. By early
next year,
it is expected to be replaced, making it one of the shorter lived
sockets
that I can remember.
The Conroe samples I've seen thus far are S775, which suggests the
socket is good into 2007 at least.
Now, I see from what you're telling me you're buying AGP based
Pentium IV
775 (so 865PE modified type boards). That's fine, lots of people
use those
(though Intel specifically says it is not a supported design). So,
you
lower your power consumption by going with an AGP card, and even
high end
AGP cards like the 6800Ultra don't use the kind of power that a
X850, 7800,
etc. use.
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/geforce-7800gtx/power.gif
I'd say thats 'the kind of power' the X850XT and 7800GXT use.
It's a little lower under load, but it's idle (non-3d) power draw is
higher!
-_-_
James Boswell
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