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"How do I know what max processor a Mobo can take?"

I'm considering this [URL]http://www.dabs.com/uk/productView.htm?quicklinx=31G6[/URL] because I know it'll take my P4 2.8. But if it can take a P4Extreme 3.2, I'll invest in a new processor at the same time.

Cheers.

Well the X850 apparently shipped yesterday, the rest of the stuff is due to ship on Tuesday, so hopefully by the end of next week I'll have my very own mini-behemoth!

Kind of screws up the deadline I had, seeing as I was supposed to have the other PC built by Wednesday, but as said before - I ain't going PC-less, no way!

When do you rekon you'll have the parts then bullet? Wanting to see that X850 XT PE performance! I'm almost certainly going PCI-E now. Might hang on another month and wait for the Venice CPU's in the 3500+ 939. Ohh..OCUK have them for pre-order now :D

So my choice wasn't a bad one then?

I couldn't really choose the Mobo as it was in a bundle, and I'm not bothered about Dual-Core.

Don't know if it was this thread or my other one, but I did say this isn't a total rebuild, just something to keep me up to date.

Besides, if anything, my reasoning for this is so it can handle my shiny new X850 :D A Geforce4 would really be the achilles heel in a computer like this!

They will not be discontinued in June. Sure, the desktop processors last orders are for June, but the socket itself will live on indefinitely for mobile processors. And it isn't like as soon as they stop making it that it actually gets slower. Dual channel RAM access isn't the huge performance boost everyone seems to think it is. Bandwidth goes up, efficiency goes down and it makes it harder to get the best overclock. Yes, socket 939 is the way to go, but it doesn't make socket 754 pointless.

And seriously folks, pretty much all Winchester cores, be it the 3000, 3200, 3500 or 3800 will hit around 2.6+ GHz. Overclocking is getting ever easier and will always save you a couple of hundred.

Socket 754 is dead!, they will soon be discontinued in June, if you went 939 you could future proof your system for dual core.

The only thing about DFI is that if you get a defective board you have to RMA it directly to DFI rather than getting a straight swap from the shop. Sounds like a lot of hassle if you are desperate to build a comp and the board turns up DOA.

Bullett wrote:
> Just ordered:
>
> Club3D Radeon X850XT PE AGP 256Mb DDR3
> AMD Athlon 64 3000+ socket 754, 512Kb cache
> EPoX Mainboard nForce3 250, SATA etc.
> Corsair Value S PC3200 512Mb RAM
> Dabs.com Value Gaming case w/480W PSU, black.
>
> Kind of a step-down from what I intended, but hey, situations change
> rapidly!
>
> Still happy with it, and with the X850, I'll be happy with it for
> quite a while :D

Good stuff, though i would have went with the DFI lanparty UT NF3 250GB over the Epox.

It was to going PCI-E..AGP will be fased out quite shortly..I think I'm going to hang on until the next gen cards are out and just splash out on PCI-E in Sep.

sPiKeCaSt wrote:
> Athlon 64 3500+ CPU
> 2x 512mb Geil PC 3200 RAM
> Asus A8N PCI-E SLI motherboard
>
> All for £380inc delivery.
>
> So I'll be selling (either this month or on 20th of May when my big
> paycheck comes)
>
> Athlon 64 3200+ CPU
> 2x 512mb Crucial PC 3200 RAM
> MSI K8T Neo FSR Motherboard.


Isn't this a rather pointless upgrade?

Grrr..stop it..only one stocked now. I can't decide..PCI-E or AGP..