- Joined
- Mar 24, 2004
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
I'm trying to find a motherboard* that has support for my P4 2.66 (I believe it is a wilamette core, it's an "intel confidential" chip though so I'm not sure) and my 2x512mb PC2100 ECC memory.
I've been looking at the the Intel 875P chipset but I keep finding motherboards with that only support DDR400 and DDR333 but don't say anything about supporting DDR266 (and some of them say they support northwoods and prescotts but don't mention wilamettes, some don't support ECC, some don't support dual-channel) and by the time I've found a board that looks like it's right I'm paying ~$70 more (~$165) than the low-end 875P chipset mobos and it's a chaintek and I start to feel very re-affirmed of my love of AMD platforms and maybe I'll just burn this stupid processor and ram and buy all new AMD computer instead as it would only cost ~$30 more but the thought of burning a 2.6ghz CPU and a gig of memory makes me cry so maybe someone can help me?
*As a 21st birthday present to me my northbridge chipset heatsync spring-clip decided to rip the clips out of the motherboard on one side and then ripped the heatsync off the chip and now the motherboard is toast and I need a new one...
I've been looking at the the Intel 875P chipset but I keep finding motherboards with that only support DDR400 and DDR333 but don't say anything about supporting DDR266 (and some of them say they support northwoods and prescotts but don't mention wilamettes, some don't support ECC, some don't support dual-channel) and by the time I've found a board that looks like it's right I'm paying ~$70 more (~$165) than the low-end 875P chipset mobos and it's a chaintek and I start to feel very re-affirmed of my love of AMD platforms and maybe I'll just burn this stupid processor and ram and buy all new AMD computer instead as it would only cost ~$30 more but the thought of burning a 2.6ghz CPU and a gig of memory makes me cry so maybe someone can help me?
*As a 21st birthday present to me my northbridge chipset heatsync spring-clip decided to rip the clips out of the motherboard on one side and then ripped the heatsync off the chip and now the motherboard is toast and I need a new one...