It's a WHAT?!? Bet you've never seen a board like this before...

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited March 2004 in Hardware
http://www.bwi.com/scripts/site/site_product.php3/id/6926/

That is NOT a mATX board. I thought it was at first too. Look at it more closely. Whatizzit?

































































A BABY AT P4 BOARD!

Comments

  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited March 2004
    Only supports 400/533FSB and SDR SDRAM!
    You know the poor p4s that will reside in those boards will be starved for bandwidth!
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Well googling, the P4X266E chipset is a DDR chipset. I'm guessing it's a mistype.

    http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/P4X266e.jsp
  • madmatmadmat
    edited March 2004
    Yeah it is a ddr chipset but it'll also do sdr as well...I used to install boards based on that chipset that had both dimm types and jumpers to choose between them with.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited March 2004
    It is Alien technology. :hair:

    Guess you could cover the entire board with heatsinks. ;D

    Big one on the cpu, big one on the NB and a ZM80C-HP on the GFX.
    Oh yeah and a passive HS on the SB, and don't forget HS on the memory as well.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Virtues of Evil wrote:
    Well googling, the P4X266E chipset is a DDR chipset. I'm guessing it's a mistype.

    http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/P4X266e.jsp

    Or, becauuse of board type it only is connected and socketed for SDRAM and not dual-channel (note that DDR SDRAM (it is Dual pumped SDRAM or Synchronous DRAM) is NOT a contradiction, but the board form factor probably limited them to SDRAM SOCKETS of 168 pin type and tracing in board layer for same so 184 PIN Dimms cannot be used). No, not a typo, board construction limited what could be applied to use with that chipset... Chipset specs neat, but those are theory, this board stinks unless someone wants a P4 running at Willamette throughput as upper end and has some old RAM he\she wants to use which is 168 Pin variety.

    John D.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    SDRAM or not, a P4 AT board is pretty neat. Can you say "LAN party"? It's the computer equivalent of a 500hp Camry. ;D

    This is pretty neat too:
    http://www.bwi.com/scripts/site/site_product.php3/id/1530/
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    * is burned by the AT field.

    My AT could probably whip that P4 AT. Asus P2B-B until just recently equipped with 1.1GHz P3, awaiting affordable 1.4GHz P3's. Will be equipped with 1.3GHz Tualatin Celeron in the meantime.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    P-Ms are better than Tualatin P3s.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    SDRAM or not, a P4 AT board is pretty neat. Can you say "LAN party"? It's the computer equivalent of a 500hp Camry. ;D

    This is pretty neat too:
    http://www.bwi.com/scripts/site/site_product.php3/id/1530/

    Geeky1, do you mean the IC7-Max3 that I am running SDRAM (Corsair VS 2700 nominally, but...) AND a P4 ON?? The SDRAM is at DDR380 equivalent (RAM bus is at 190) and the P4 is at 3.2 GHz. Oh, the silly thing likes p858 dimer's fine, though I think it is taking a bit long to get my 160 points for one of those (I am guessing run time at 25 hours to 26 hours for that WU).... :D Why get a cut down board???? I would rather cart a bigger, meaner box around.... ;D

    No, I say ROCKIN' FOLDIN' GRAPHICS BOX, not LAN party box, different strokes for different folks.... ;D Now, to get some Dual Channel and a faster chip.... :D AND, another IC7-Max3 or a NEo FIS2R i875P variant.

    John D.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    P-Ms are better than Tualatin P3s.
    :confused: The sky is blue. What's your point? :confused:

    This board (the one Geeky posted) won't take P-M's. I'm betting that a Tualatin P3 on a (my) 440BX @ 133MHz bus will beat any 100MHz bus P4 on a board w/ SDR-SDRAM. :necro:

    I have no idea what that smilie does but it looks cool ;D

    -drasnor :fold:
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    12 node dc cluster at mini-itx.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    eww eww eww eww eww eww x 10 ^ 999,999,999,999,999,999

    C3. *gag*
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    Bah I thought that was the P-M board that Geeky posted. My bad. Then I guess the P3s would smoke those slower P4s.

    Those C3s wont do crap for folding. Only good thing is low heat and lower power consumption.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    And the reason the C3s have such low heat output and power consumption is because THEY HAVE ALL THE COMPUTING POWER OF AN ICE CUBE!!
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Refurbed 1.3GHz Tualatin Celerons at Newegg are cheaper too: $25.00 per processor.

    -drasnor :fold:
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