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P4 660 Info

Sir-Fragalot said:
They need a BIOS update and must be used in the i925X and i925XE chipsets. The i915 series isn't supported.
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Hi,

I'm a n00b on the Intel side of things, building a system for a customer using a Fatal1ty board & a P4 650...one question, will the board post at all without the BIOS update? Or will I need a 5xx series CPU to get it to POST, flash the BIOS and then be good? Abit's site doesn't have any newer BIOSes for the Fatal1ty as of the time stamp of this post, last one they have is dated Decembet 2004.

As an aside, I've had this board for about a month, I got it for another sale that fell through, so I didn't buy a CPU for it at the time, so this BIOS on it is at least a month old.
 
ThomasE66 said:
PGHammer is quite correct. For the miniscule price difference you're buying future capabilities as well. What if you decide you want to move to a 64 bit OS, for example?
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That is *precisely* my point.

Windows XP Pro 64-bit *will* ship. And It will run on the 6xx series out of the box.

Throw in the features of the J series that are also included, and Enhanced SpeedStep (which the Js lack) and the 6xx is a comparative bargain.

I just came from Newegg's site and spec'd out a low-end changeout where I can keep most of my add-in cards and my RAM based on a 6xx CPU (the 640, to be precise) and came out *barely* over $600 including shipping. New mobo, new CPU, new graphics card (PCIe, of course), but I *keep* my DDR400, all my drives, and all my current add-in hardware (and the graphics change is from an AIW in AGP to another AIW in PCIe, so I basically come out even there, except the new AIW has twice the RAM of the old).

I lose *nothing* in the way of capability, and gain No Execute, Enhanced SpeedStep, and become 64-bit ready, all for less than $650 including shipping.

And remember, I'm coming from a *Northwood-C* (if the Cs followed the Processor Number scheme, my current CPU would be a Pentium 4 460), so the processor itself is faster in terms of sheer frequency, not to mention having four times the onboard cache (2 MB vs. 512KB).

I'm thinking in terms of Tax Refund time.
 
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