No i$ saying a motherboard that has a street cost of 279 to support a socket 479 pentium m is spendy
Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -----Original Message----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 07:43:34 To:"The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] Pentium-M desktop motherboard ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [H] Pentium-M desktop motherboard > Aopen makes one but its rather spendy > Are you thinking you can save by using an older CPU which requires an older motherboard with an AGP video slot and DDR or PC 133 RAM? You could have a couple of years ago when I sold Celeron CPU's for around $120.00 and P4 CPU's for $220.00 and up. Now the Celerons have been discontinued and the P4' (if there are any left at my supplier) and the Pentium D's (Dual Core) have been reduced to only around $120.00. This means it is to your advantage to bypass that Pentium M and get a Pentium D and a motherboard with a PCIe video slot and slots for DDR2 RAM. Why bend over backwards and go with all old technology to save $120.00 on a CPU that gives you a lots slower older CPU?? For a few years after Windows XP came out, people wanted older and out of date computers to run their older software. Many had their new computers built with older technology to accommodate their older software. Your progression should be led by advances in hardware and the CPU takes the lead. Motherboards and everything else is built around the CPU. Chuck
