You can get better and faster boards for a lot less, if that is USA $. In the 865 chipset; Asus P4P800 Deluxe, Abit IS7 series, MSI 865PE Neo2 series. In the 875 chipset; Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, Abit IC7 series and the MSI Neo2 series with the 875 chipset. All of these boards are among the top 3 best. Some sites list one as first, and another may list it as 2nd or 3rd. Can't go wrong with any of them. Any in the P4C800 series are good, but the E-Deluxe has the CSA LAN and ICH5R controller. In the 865 boards, the MSI Neo2 series are the only ones with the CSA LAN....might be the Neo2 FIS2R is the only one, can't recall. 865 does not support ECC memory, 875 does. The 865 boards are usually a little bit faster at most test sites, at others the 875 edges them out. -Clint
God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Clint, the board I am thinking about works with the new Pentium 4 800MHz front side bus CPU and accepts up to 4GB of DDR400 memory. The board itself, costs around $225. Maybe I'll give it a try. Looked on Tom's Hardware Guide but couldn't find much about Supermicro. ** Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** >They are not among the best "mainstream" boards, but they still >make good special and rare boards like Xeon or dual CPU boards, >or server boards. I doubt you'll find a "state-of-the-art" >mobo with an ISA slot, but, with SM and their "specialty" >boards, it may be a good one. I say they are not among the >best, more accurately may be they are not among the fastest >since dual CPU, Xeon, and server boards are usually used in >mission critical type apps, they must be pretty reliable; but >I've yet to see any of their typical P4 boards in any list of >top boards. They are not popular probably because of their >specialty market. The best thing to do is to do a search on >the model # at a search engine and look for reviews, tests, >ratings, etc. on it. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
