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mcoleg said:
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DFI pentium M motherboard
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Thats CAD $.
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I think they should be fine. Look at their customer reviews. It shuold no more then 1 week to get in Canada, also depends on the shipping method used.First try to see if your local pc stores, can special order this board for you.The O.C said:
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elec999 said:
Not just this board, all the 855 boards are overpriced, I guess either chipset is expensive or most likely these are made in much smaller quantity than the other boards.
I have to say that I am very impressed with the performance of the Dothan CPUs. In my country it's at half the price of an FX-55, and judging by the review below, an overclocked Dothan is a match for any CPU. It would of course have been interesting to compare it to an overclocked FX-55, but I'm nonetheless very impressed with the benchmark results I've seen so far. Plus, in time we might see much better OC-potential on the Pentium-M-platform for desktops.
I do agree that the mobos are currently overpriced. The available chipset (have only heard of i855) isn't really great, although this mobo has an interesting southbridge solution.
The PCI-X slot doesn't fully compare to the ones found on server boards. It runs at 66 MHz, and is limited by the 266 MB/s transfer rate between the southbridge and the northbridge. However the PCI-X bus should be superior to the 32-bit PCI bus, if for example using a high-end SCSI-controller.
One thing I really dislike about this mobo is the fact that you are stuck with that tiny stock cooler (bundled with the mobo).
Can you imagine a Dothan with 800/1066 FSB and dual channel? The Dothan kinda reminds me of an AMD CPU. Dothans don't require high bandwidth in order to kick *** (unlike desktop P4). Like AMDs, Dothans are probably much better for gaming that Northwood/Prescott (because of the pipeline), despite the fact that you only get support for AGP 4x and single channel DDR333.
It's clear to me that the 12-stage pipeline is a good thing, all Intel CPUs should have been like that. Then there would have been two CPU manufacturers to choose between (ignoring the Dothan for a second). If they improve the chipset and bandwidth issues, this could turn out to be very interesting.
Detailed review of DFI 855GME-MGF here:
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=dfipm&page=1
I do agree that the mobos are currently overpriced. The available chipset (have only heard of i855) isn't really great, although this mobo has an interesting southbridge solution.
The PCI-X slot doesn't fully compare to the ones found on server boards. It runs at 66 MHz, and is limited by the 266 MB/s transfer rate between the southbridge and the northbridge. However the PCI-X bus should be superior to the 32-bit PCI bus, if for example using a high-end SCSI-controller.
One thing I really dislike about this mobo is the fact that you are stuck with that tiny stock cooler (bundled with the mobo).
Can you imagine a Dothan with 800/1066 FSB and dual channel? The Dothan kinda reminds me of an AMD CPU. Dothans don't require high bandwidth in order to kick *** (unlike desktop P4). Like AMDs, Dothans are probably much better for gaming that Northwood/Prescott (because of the pipeline), despite the fact that you only get support for AGP 4x and single channel DDR333.
It's clear to me that the 12-stage pipeline is a good thing, all Intel CPUs should have been like that. Then there would have been two CPU manufacturers to choose between (ignoring the Dothan for a second). If they improve the chipset and bandwidth issues, this could turn out to be very interesting.
Detailed review of DFI 855GME-MGF here:
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=dfipm&page=1
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Miguita said:
Yes that is a downside. Atleast the MB has holes, you know what Im thinking?
Water Block.
