- Joined
- Feb 14, 2003
- Location
- Southeast US
Ok, here's the story, and why this ISN'T a weak 'do your research' post. =P
I work with a partner as a jack-of-all trades IT consultant. We have a lot of professional and residential clients that want varied things, ranging from full feature touchless backup servers to de-cacking spyware'd computers.
Recently one of our clients had a lightning strike, and his old Dell 1.8ghz PIV bit the bullet. I'm reasonably sure it's the motherboard that died, and he doesn't want to fix it, so he's going to claim it on his homeowner's insurance. He let us keep the carcass to throw away / salvage what we could.
Here is where it gets good - I took the dell heatsink off, pulled the chip, and looked at it, and it turns out it's a Northwood SL6LA 1.8. I googled SL6LA, and found that this is a REALLY good overclocker, as most of you Intel-supporters probably already know. (feel free to augment / correct / war story this stepping)
Currently I'm running an A7N8X-DLX NForce2 board for my unlocked athlon, with dual onboard lan, soundstorm, sata, all the goodies.
I want to pick a socket 478 board to do a m/b level replacement in this machine. I need onboard lan (single is fine) GOOD onboard sound, SATA, and I need good voltage control without having to solder or... well, minimal 'easy' wire wrapping. Seems some of the vid-pinning mods are pretty difficult, I want to avoid that.
I also need a board that will let me run the memory at less than the processor's FSB, preferably dual channel if Intel boards support that. (I assume they do, I'm just not any kind of Intel-smart person, all my experience is with AMD systems post p3-era.
Price isn't too much of an object, I figure I should be able to get a whole lot of motherboard for south of $140.
I *DID* try to determine a good board that suits my needs, but frankly, I'm overwhelmed - too much information. I figure if anyone has a board that has the features I want, and they got reasonable OC results with it, I'll buy it.
Any ideas?
I work with a partner as a jack-of-all trades IT consultant. We have a lot of professional and residential clients that want varied things, ranging from full feature touchless backup servers to de-cacking spyware'd computers.
Recently one of our clients had a lightning strike, and his old Dell 1.8ghz PIV bit the bullet. I'm reasonably sure it's the motherboard that died, and he doesn't want to fix it, so he's going to claim it on his homeowner's insurance. He let us keep the carcass to throw away / salvage what we could.
Here is where it gets good - I took the dell heatsink off, pulled the chip, and looked at it, and it turns out it's a Northwood SL6LA 1.8. I googled SL6LA, and found that this is a REALLY good overclocker, as most of you Intel-supporters probably already know. (feel free to augment / correct / war story this stepping)
Currently I'm running an A7N8X-DLX NForce2 board for my unlocked athlon, with dual onboard lan, soundstorm, sata, all the goodies.
I want to pick a socket 478 board to do a m/b level replacement in this machine. I need onboard lan (single is fine) GOOD onboard sound, SATA, and I need good voltage control without having to solder or... well, minimal 'easy' wire wrapping. Seems some of the vid-pinning mods are pretty difficult, I want to avoid that.
I also need a board that will let me run the memory at less than the processor's FSB, preferably dual channel if Intel boards support that. (I assume they do, I'm just not any kind of Intel-smart person, all my experience is with AMD systems post p3-era.
Price isn't too much of an object, I figure I should be able to get a whole lot of motherboard for south of $140.
I *DID* try to determine a good board that suits my needs, but frankly, I'm overwhelmed - too much information. I figure if anyone has a board that has the features I want, and they got reasonable OC results with it, I'll buy it.
Any ideas?