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"P4 3.2Ghz Compatible Motherboard ?"

Yep, well, after buying the Abit IC7-G on the advice of someone and having that fall flat on its a**e, I'm going to send the faulty motherboard back to Ebuyer and get a refund. (Hopefully.)

But now that leaves me with around £100 - 120 at the moment, and a big hole in my case for a motherboard.

Now, thinking about it, a Gigabyte 8IK-1100 - my original motherboard - seems like a pretty decent idea, never had any trouble with it until it got fried.

But are there any other P4 3.2Ghz compatible motherboards I should look at?

Main features I need:

At least 4 RAM slots - have 2 different PC types, so...
AGP 8X - Radeon 9600XT
S-ATA - Well, I want it to last a while, and I'll probably be getting either a pair of Raptors or a big 200-300GB HDD with S-ATA.
Firewire Support
Gigabyte Lan


Things I really don't need:

On board graphics / sound.


Hope that gives a good aproximation of what I want... Thanks.

Maybe they just took a shipment of faulty Motherboards - the batch that rolled off the line on a Friday

What was you problem with the mobo as have also only just got one from ebuyer also and it has a problem maybe two.

1. When starting is up is says it has a CMOS problem and cannot find my CD and DVD drives. Couldn't get that sorted so i pressed f1 to continue as it had found my two hard drives.

2. starts loading up windows then resets but cannot find the CPU turn PC of then on again and does the same(problem 1 then problem 2)

anyone got any ideas and i would be most greatful

And unnesecary with my PC...

It's not like it has anything that could be associated with trouble running games like Rome Total War and CounterStrike : Source...

Also, my motherboard now refuses to turn on. And it's not the studs either...

But it's fun! And free performance!

Little need to overclock in my system...

Yep - watch it burn a hole through your MoBo... Whilst it is a fairly capable overclocker, with Prescotts you really need at least water cooling to overclock effectively...

Inefficient architecture and a surprising heat production.

What's wrong with my Prescott?

Coin wrote:
> But is it even compatible with a 3.2Ghz Prescott?
>
> Oh hold on - maybe it isn't broken, if it has a 800FSB, not...
>
> Wait a sec.

???

Oh no... you got a prescott... Should work with no problems though.

But is it even compatible with a 3.2Ghz Prescott?

Oh hold on - maybe it isn't broken, if it has a 800FSB, not...

Wait a sec.