Iwill P4GB Motherboard Questions?

[JonathanF]

I am looking to buy the IWILL P4GB Motherboard from NEWEGG for around $ 229.

1. How does the Iwill P4GB Motherboard compare to the ASUS P4G8X and the Gigabyte GA-IN8XP Motherboard?

2. Can I use my two sticks of Kingston HyperX PC-3500 DDR RAM, or am I limited to my older Kingston PC-2100 DDR RAM?

3. How stable is the P4GB Motherboard since I do not Overclock and I plan to use an Intel P4 2.8 GHZ Retail CPU Chip?

Jonathan


Jonathan

 

[jlanka]

I'd go with the Gigabyte board. More features. Thats me though, I've got to have the most toys

Of course you can use the newer RAM. Otherwise why buy a new motherboard?

Without overclocking and a decent power supply and RAM you should be fine.

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[tilepusher]

Yo J,

I could be wrong here, but I believe that the Intel E7205 Granite Bay chipsets only support PC2100/DDR266. You can use faster Ram, but your chipset will only use it as PC2100/DDR266, unless you over-clock your system.

Peace Out................tile

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[jlanka]

upon close inspection, tile is correct. Like he said, you can use it but it will run it slower.


Wow, that really sucks. Imagine coming out with a new chipset but only using it with year old RAM specs? What genius thought of that concept?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[paulj]

I would wait until they support 333MHz memory at least. Maybe they can beat RDRAM then.

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[DCB_AU]

Check out the Intel D845PE BT2 board. It has 2700 ram, SATA & PATA support and is very stable.
There is a new bios upgrade available for improved overclocking if wanted.

DCB_AU