I'm going to need a new mobo soon...

[Ben Novack]

Oooookay, I just found out that it's probably *not* the mainboard that
was the problem, but rather his running PC2700 RAM on a P4 Northwood
system. Sigh.

So, nevermind, it looks like I'll just have to pick some PC3200 and
I'll have a working P4 2.4 system.

Although... what kind of a speed increase would I get going from
2.4/400mhz to 2.8/533mhz?


On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:31:40 -0400, Ben Novack <bennovack at gmail.com> wrote:
> My father's going to be giving me, very shortly, a homebuilt P4 2.8ghz
> system with a gig of RAM and a 17" Dell flatscreen - for free. I'll be
> putting in an Nvidia video card and an SB Live! from my old PIII
> desktop to ensure that I'll have no hardware problems.
> 
> However, the reason he's giving it to me is that it doesn't work, and
> he's already replaced the processor and RAM - but not the motherboard
> which, without having seen these problems in person, I'm pretty sure
> is the problem. I'm massively out of the loop on desktop systems,
> since I last built one in 2000 or so, and since then my purchasing
> research has focused on laptops (like the one I'm on right now).
> 
> So what would you Ubuntu folks suggest for a good, preferably cheap,
> Linux-friendly, ATX P4 motherboard?
>