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Postby rhonnin » Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:48 pm

I had an asus p4pe socket 478 mobo and would like some suggestions for replscement, it still needs tro be a wsocket 478 so I can reuse the cpu.
Newegg only had one listed so I figured an opinion from you guys would be helpful.
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Postby jediknight » Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:16 pm

Finding any 478 is gonna be HARD all I gotta say. Might wanna upgrade the cpu ram too.
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Postby rhonnin » Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:28 pm

Yea, hard to find one that isn't a micro atx for some reason, did find the exact one that died but it's 78.00 which I don't think is a good value for 5 year old tech.
This was bad timing for a computer meltdown too since we had just ordered 1600.00 worth of heating oil for the winter.
So let's play build Rhonnin a frankenmachine, a friend had given me a dell xps with a core 2 duo 1.86 in it and a dead mobo, I believe that's a socket 775, I don't have any memory for it. I already have hard drives in both ide and sata flavors as well as video cards in agp and pcie. I also have soundblaster cards but don't really care if a board has onboard sound or not.
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Postby jediknight » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:00 pm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131295 I have this board very good. Sry I ment to post this week's ago heh. I have a E7200 OC to 3.6 ghz on it.
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Postby jediknight » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:08 pm

Rhonnin wrote:Yea, hard to find one that isn't a micro atx for some reason, did find the exact one that died but it's 78.00 which I don't think is a good value for 5 year old tech.
This was bad timing for a computer meltdown too since we had just ordered 1600.00 worth of heating oil for the winter.
So let's play build Rhonnin a frankenmachine, a friend had given me a dell xps with a core 2 duo 1.86 in it and a dead mobo, I believe that's a socket 775, I don't have any memory for it. I already have hard drives in both ide and sata flavors as well as video cards in agp and pcie. I also have soundblaster cards but don't really care if a board has onboard sound or not.
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.


Actualy if it's a dell PC then I think Only Dell Mobo's will fit in the case..
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Postby rhonnin » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:13 pm

The socket 775 is for a dell, the 478 is a machine I built. But yea, the dell boards seem to have things in odd places and I have been having a hard time finding out the part number for the dell board.
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Postby rhonnin » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:35 pm

I finally found this one after searching high and low. So hopefully I can order this tomorrow and be back gaming before new years.
I do have a question, am I going to have to buy matched pairs of ram for this? I have 2 gigs of ram but it's a 1 gig stick and 2 x 512.
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Postby jediknight » Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:39 am

2 sticks equal dual channel, not 3.
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Postby rhonnin » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:34 pm

Yea, I know that, I'm wondering if it would work with what I have or should I buy new ram.
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Postby jediknight » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:53 pm

3 sticks will work. if there not matching set's there's a small chance your pc might be unstable.
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