PCI-E on 478?

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Title says it all. Where can i find a mobo that allows overclocking and has pci-e 16x on a socket 478 proc?
 
Albatron made one, but they are only slightly less rare than hen's teeth.

==>Lazn
 
Asus also had one, but it wasn't available in the states...only Europe
 
Albatron actually has a couple. They were on newegg for the longest time. Only recently did they get rare.
 
The Albatron was available here. Just have to find someone selling it :).
 
I think i got part of the last batch from albatron when they were up on newegg. since they went down i haven't seen anymore in stock, even when they are in stock, they go fast!

I made a thread in the intel motherboard section about the board, it is pretty nice, i can do 228mhz FSB with value PC3200 ram stable running 3.42GHz, not bad, probably would get more with better ram and cooling solution.

If you look around for chrisf6969 i think he was thinking of selling his albatron board to get a newer intel socket T intel.
 
Personally, I wouldn't go through the trouble. If you want PCI-E performance on a budget, I'd grab a Pentium 4 550 and a Abit AA8XE or some other board. The 550 is fairly cheap and usually goes to 4GHz+. I did so on air. Though I had a hard time keeping it cool at those speeds.
 
I was looking at the Asus one, but the one that sold on ebay yesterday went for 350...
 
ryuji said:
because of dothan
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Exactly, I think I just may ebay my 750, haven't heard good things about the abit mbs and the shuttle only allows up to 166 fsb.
 
ND40oz said:
Exactly, I think I just may ebay my 750, haven't heard good things about the abit mbs and the shuttle only allows up to 166 fsb.
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get a p4c800-e and a x850 xt-pe... and oc the dothan to 3 ghz or so and it would be a fine system
 
We should get together a group buy and find someplace in europe with the asus board.


ryuji said:
get a p4c800-e and a x850 xt-pe... and oc the dothan to 3 ghz or so and it would be a fine system
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The P4C800 is almost as hard to find as the PCIE 478 asus board, and agp is dead.
 
ChronicTrees said:
We should get together a group buy and find someplace in europe with the asus board.


The P4C800 is almost as hard to find as the PCIE 478 asus board, and agp is dead.
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They did a group buy at XS I believe...some of them might be selling them used.
 
kirbyrj said:
They did a group buy at XS I believe...some of them might be selling them used.
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Yeah, one of their members told me about it, I wish I would have known about it earlier.
 
ChronicTrees said:
We should get together a group buy and find someplace in europe with the asus board.


The P4C800 is almost as hard to find as the PCIE 478 asus board, and agp is dead.
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p4p works as well, and no matter how you look at it its still a fine gaming system... and since 'agp is dead' nobody wants the cards so.... you can get a damn nice card for cheap then
 
ryuji said:
get a p4c800-e and a x850 xt-pe... and oc the dothan to 3 ghz or so and it would be a fine system
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Yeah, but the 7800GT I have sitting in the box won't work with it and neither will this spare DDR2 I have, so I ordered a gigabyte 975 board and a 930 today. I think it's performance should be atleast comparable to the dothans :)
 
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