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Old September 21st, 2002 Top | #1
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I need a motherboard that supports the following:

Pentium 4 from 1.8 to around 2.4.
Lots of PCI slots
USB 2 (not essential, but I do need USB)
Lots of RAM slots

Anyone?

Thanks.

PS: Dont tell me to get a Athlon XP.
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get an "AMD" hehe
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yeah forget about p4, AMD athlon xp processor out shine them
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Check out the link I've provided since you want go with a Pentium 4 which is fine. As far as manufacturers go I would suggest Intel boards mind you they got a lot of the goodies as other boards but they are very stable, also Asus is good. I would also suggest that you get a board with an Intel chipset for a good solid, stable system.

Intel Chipset Comparison Chart
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This is the board I use. Don't know if it is up there or not but it does me well.
Pentium 4 2.6ghz 400mhz @ 3.07ghz 472mhz / Gigabyte GA-8IHXP v2.1 / RAMBUS PC 800 768mb / Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256mb / 2 x Maxtor 80gb ATA133 DiamondMax, RAID0 :: 1 x Western Digital 7200 40gb / Liteon DVD-RW Dual Layer SOHW-1633S @ 1653S / Liteon 52x24x52 CD-RW LTR-52246S / Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Fan / Antec TruePower 480w / RD3XP Gladiator Rounded Cables
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The chart I link to is most comparing the various Intel chipsets and the chipset on ur board Hipster is on that chart.
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