Motherboard ok? ASUS P4800 SE
I have been looking at a new motherboard i had suggestions about Abit IA7 and IC7 but was concerned about the noise from the Northbridge Fan, and the temp of the CPU being over 50c just sitting in the BIOS!
I like the look of this board P4P800S
However the one i have seen is a p4p800 SE and it is £53 at overclockers
Just one thing confuses my about these boards, what is the difference between 'Springdale' and Canterwood'?
And most importantly i have a P4 2.4Ghz 533fsb 'Northwood' Cpu will a Northwood cpu work in this motherboard?
The intel site also states about two types of 2.4Ghz CPU a 2.40A and a 2.40B, how do i find out which is mine?
I am only upgrading because my brand spanking new 9800XT will not run properly in my current mobo (have tried everything from different drivers, agp speeds, no fast writes, still slow and crashes, i does work have tried on friends machine)
Need a good motherboard that works with my CPU and max £80 (GBP) cost. Must have good CPU temps too. Currenty my cpu is 37c idle and 55c when running games like Far Cry.
I like the look of this board P4P800S
However the one i have seen is a p4p800 SE and it is £53 at overclockers
Just one thing confuses my about these boards, what is the difference between 'Springdale' and Canterwood'?
And most importantly i have a P4 2.4Ghz 533fsb 'Northwood' Cpu will a Northwood cpu work in this motherboard?
The intel site also states about two types of 2.4Ghz CPU a 2.40A and a 2.40B, how do i find out which is mine?
I am only upgrading because my brand spanking new 9800XT will not run properly in my current mobo (have tried everything from different drivers, agp speeds, no fast writes, still slow and crashes, i does work have tried on friends machine)
Need a good motherboard that works with my CPU and max £80 (GBP) cost. Must have good CPU temps too. Currenty my cpu is 37c idle and 55c when running games like Far Cry.
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Your 2.4 Northwood would run well in any of the Abit or Asus boards you mentioned.
Did you have a thread here about your your video card problems? Perhaps it is not a motherboard problem, but a power supply unit problem?
The motherboard will have little or nothing to do with the actual temperatures of your CPU - that is determined by the speed, thereby power consumption/waste heat of the CPU, the quality of the CPU cooler you install, and the efficiency of airflow in your computer case.
55*C is not too hot for an Intel Northwood during gaming. For overclocking though, you'd want better cooling than that.
Northbridge cooler noise. Yes, I hear you. One of the standard motherboard modifications for me has become removing stock, active NB coolers, replacing them with oversized passive heatsinks. It's cheap, effective, and the buzzzzzwhine is gone!
That Asus board you are talking about is an i865 chipset board, I believe, and should perform well. The 2 Abit boards you mention are both excellent performers; I have both the IS7 and an IC7-G and they are everything that Leo states. The IS7 is in a dedicated folding machine with just 1 stick of ram, so I can't directly compare it's performance to my IC7-G, but it should be damn close. I imagine that the Asus board should perform similarly to the IS7 but that's just taking a guess as I don't know anyone using that board.
I ran the card in a friends pc, althought he has a different motherboard his machine has running the same amount of stuff that mine has e.g one HDD two cd roms etc. This other machine also had the same power supply as mine, yet when i ran this card on this system it performed beautifuly getting a about 6200 3d marks in 3dmark 2003!
Just wondered about the extra noise as although i am confident about fitting the motherboard (i have built about 4 pc's) i am not confident about removing the fan on the northbridge and replacing with a passive cooler if it is deemed to loud or buzzy.