DFI and Aopen mATX Pentium M boards are at Newegg!!!

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited December 2004 in Hardware
Guys guys guys, check these out:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-137-057&depa=0
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-136-150&depa=0
*drools*

Comments

  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited December 2004
    Cool little mobos. For any Canadians that may be interested in the DFI board, ncix out on the west coast carries them too..

    http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=13255&vpn=855GME-MGF&manufacture=DFI
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited December 2004
    $270 OUCH! :wtf:
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited December 2004
    Yeah well... no one ever said building sweet systems was cheap. On the up side, a 1.6GHz Pentium M is $210, and a 1.7 is $250 (iirc) from newegg. A high end P4 motherboard will run you $150-$200, and a high end P4 (LGA775) will run you right around $450. SO, it's still cheaper than a comparable P4 system.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2004
    Geeky, if you go with the Asus 925 board for the LGA P4's(because it's the best overclocking LGA mobo), the price is more like $260. So looking at it from that point, these mobo's aren't too outrageous (although there should be no real reason for the price to be this high anyways :scratch: ).

    I just d/l'ed the manuals for both boards and the Aopen looks like it would be the better buy. The Aopen uses a standard P4 heatsink retention mechanism and would be real easy to put a good P4 heatsink on, like an SLK947-U with a really quiet fan. The DFI uses a proprietary heatsink and retention mechanism that's included with the mobo. Plus, the Aopen board has a utility that lets you dynamically overclock while in windows by adjusting both the fsb and lowering the multi's. The only problem I see is the lack of vdimm adjustments in bios; Aopen does have vcore adjustments according to the manual. You could get an OCZ DDR booster for the vdimm voltage though. I am really tempted to get this board and a 1.6 P-M and see how it would perform running around a 250 fsb speed and comparing it to the performance of my P4's and also see if someone else could bench a P4 on a i845 chipset board for comparison.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited December 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    Yeah well... no one ever said building sweet systems was cheap. On the up side, a 1.6GHz Pentium M is $210, and a 1.7 is $250 (iirc) from newegg. A high end P4 motherboard will run you $150-$200, and a high end P4 (LGA775) will run you right around $450. SO, it's still cheaper than a comparable P4 system.

    Socket 939 Mobo ~$100
    Athlon 64 90nm 3200+ 2.0ghz ~$210

    It's a good design but AFAIK the P-M is just a curiosity until the Mobo & CPU prices drop.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited December 2004
    Is it just me or is the AGP slot only a 4X :wtf:
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited December 2004
    Slots: 1x AGP 4X, 3x PCI, 1x PCI-X

    This is probably the reason that the DFI board cost so much.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited December 2004
    8x gives you nothing over a 4x slot except a marketing #
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    If ever my laptop needs a new processor, its 2.1GHz Dothan is going into something like this.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Omega65 wrote:
    Socket 939 Mobo ~$100
    Athlon 64 90nm 3200+ 2.0ghz ~$210

    It's a good design but AFAIK the P-M is just a curiosity until the Mobo & CPU prices drop.
    Pentium III Tualatin 1.4GHz CPU: $280.00 @ http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80616
    Tyan Tomcat i815T PGA370 motherboard: $74.95 (non-sale price) @ http://www.weirdstuff.com/commerce/catalog/product.jsp?product_id=4520&czuid=1102797185578

    I'd say that the Pentium M solution is quite competitively priced as it is right now :rolleyes: .

    -drasnor :fold:
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited December 2004
    You're comparing two overpriced Intel solutions to each other. ;D

    Against the overrated P3 Tualatin...

    Athlon XP-M 2400+ 1.8ghz FSB266 $80
    Epox KT880 8VTAI $55

    OR

    Sempron 3100+ 256K S754 1.8ghz $122
    Epox 8KDA3J NF3-250GB $70

    Both AMD solutions are Cooler & Faster (the Sempron 3100+ is MUCH faster) ;D;D;D

    I dont know why there's this love affair with Tualatins..... :scratch::scratch::scratch:
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Omega65 wrote:
    You're comparing two overpriced Intel solutions to each other. ;D
    Truth. ;D
    Omega65 wrote:
    I dont know why there's this love affair with Tualatins..... :scratch::scratch::scratch:
    I kinda want to know too. If they weren't so expensive, I might consider them for upgrading my dual P3 server. :scratch:

    drasnor :fold:
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